10-letter words containing b, o, m, s
- outnumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outnumber.
- postbellum — occurring after a war, especially after the American Civil War: postbellum reforms.
- problemist — someone who composes and solves problems, esp in chess or mathematics
- push broom — a wide broom with a long handle, pushed by hand and used for sweeping large areas.
- ramboesque — looking or behaving like, or characteristic of, Rambo, a fictional film character noted for his mindless brutality
- ransomable — capable of being ransomed
- rhomboides — a rhomboid
- roberdsman — a robber
- salbutamol — the international generic name for albuterol.
- scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
- scum-board — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- seaborgium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Sg; atomic number: 106.
- semidouble — having more petals than those of a single flower but fewer than those of a double flower.
- sex symbol — a celebrity who is held to possess abundant sex appeal.
- slumberous — sleepy; heavy with drowsiness, as the eyelids.
- small-bore — of, noting, or relating to a .22-caliber firearm.
- smart bomb — a steerable air-to-surface bomb that is guided to its target by television or a laser beam.
- smoke bomb — a bomb that produces a continuous discharge of smoke rather than an explosion, used to mark a target for aerial attack, indicate wind direction, produce a smoke screen, etc.
- smokeboard — a board situated above a fireplace to prevent the emission of smoke into a room
- smoothbore — (of firearms) having a bore that is smooth; not rifled.
- smorrebrod — hors d'oeuvres served on slices of buttered bread
- snowmobile — Also called skimobile, snowcat. a motor vehicle with a revolving tread in the rear and steerable skis in the front, for traveling over snow.
- somberness — gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted: a somber passageway.
- sombrerite — a lime and alumina phosphoric compound
- somnambule — a person who sleepwalks
- sonic boom — a loud noise caused by the shock wave generated by an aircraft moving at supersonic speed.
- stink bomb — a small glass globe, used by practical jokers: it releases a liquid with an offensive smell when broken
- storm belt — an area of the earth's surface in which storms are frequent
- storm boat — assault boat.
- stormbound — confined, detained, or isolated by storms: a stormbound ship; a stormbound village.
- strabotomy — the operation of cutting one or more of the muscles of the eye to correct strabismus.
- subatomics — the study of subatomic particles
- subcompact — an automobile that is smaller than a compact.
- subcompany — subsidiary company.
- subeconomy — an economy within another economy
- subkingdom — a category of related phyla within a kingdom.
- submersion — to submerge.
- submission — an act or instance of submitting.
- submontane — under or beneath a mountain or mountains.
- submucosal — of or relating to the submucosa
- suboptimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
- subproblem — any question or matter involving doubt, uncertainty, or difficulty.
- subprogram — procedure (def 4b).
- summer job — a job that a student does in the summer vacation
- superjumbo — an extremely large twin-deck jet-propelled airliner that can carry over 500 passengers
- swamp boat — Also called swamp boat. a small open boat having a very shallow draft and driven by a caged airplane propeller mounted above the rear transom, capable of traveling at relatively high speeds through shallow water, swamps, etc.
- symbionese — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Symbionese Liberation Army or its adherents.
- symbolical — serving as a symbol of something (often followed by of).
- symbolises — to be a symbol of; stand for or represent in the manner of a symbol.
- symbolisms — the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character.