10-letter words containing b, s, c, e
- semipublic — partly or to some degree public.
- sex object — a person viewed as being of little interest or merit beyond the potential for providing sexual gratification.
- shell back — an underside of a spoon bowl ornamented with a shell motif.
- shock tube — an apparatus in which a gas is heated to very high temperatures by means of a shock wave, usually for spectroscopic investigation of the natures and reactions of the resulting radicals and excited molecules
- shore crab — any of numerous crabs that live along the shoreline between the tidemarks, as Hemigrapsus nudus (purple shore crab) of the Pacific coast of North America.
- sickle bar — cutter bar (def 1).
- sicklebill — any of various birds having a long, curved bill, as the long-billed curlew or curve-billed thrasher.
- silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
- sketchable — suitable for being sketched.
- sketchbook — Also, sketchpad. a book or pad of drawing paper for sketches.
- sluice-box — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- social bee — any of several bees, as the honeybees or bumblebees, that live together in communities.
- sourcebook — a book which contains sources of information on a particular subject
- spaceborne — moving in orbit around the earth: a spaceborne surveillance system.
- spiceberry — a myrtaceous tree, Eugenia rhombea, of the Caribbean and Florida, with orange or black edible fruits
- st. brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
- stickybeak — a busybody; meddler.
- stock cube — bouillon cube used for gravy, etc.
- stone crab — an edible crab, Menippe mercenaria, of rocky shores from the southern U.S. to Mexico and certain areas of the Caribbean, prized for the meat of its claws.
- sub judice — before a judge or court; awaiting judicial determination.
- sub-clause — Grammar. a syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence.
- sub-sector — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- subacetate — a basic salt of acetic acid.
- subacutely — in a subacute manner
- subarcuate — fairly arched
- subarticle — an article that forms part of a larger or main article
- subcabinet — a group of advisers ranking below the cabinet level, chosen by a chief executive usually from members of the various executive departments.
- subcaliber — noting or pertaining to ammunition of smaller caliber than the gun in which it is used.
- subcalibre — (of a projectile) having a calibre less than that of the firearm from which it is discharged and therefore either fitted with a disc or fired through a tube inserted into the barrel
- subcarbide — a carbide containing less than the normal proportion of carbon.
- subcarrier — a carrier wave used to modify or modulate another carrier wave.
- subceiling — a ceiling placed on a subdivision of a category; a sublimit
- subcentral — near or almost to the center.
- subchapter — a subdivision especially of a body of laws.
- subcharter — to rent a chartered vehicle
- subchelate — having a claw with one pincer longer than the other
- subclavate — somewhat club-shaped.
- subcluster — a number of things of the same kind, growing or held together; a bunch: a cluster of grapes.
- subcollege — a department of a college which provides classes below college level
- subcordate — almost heart-shaped
- subculture — Bacteriology. to cultivate (a bacterial strain) again on a new medium.
- subcurrent — a not clearly revealed or formulated direction of thought, intention, action, etc., underlying what is manifested: His words, though ostensibly friendly, betrayed a subcurrent of hostility.
- subdecanal — of or relating to a subdean or subdeanery
- subdialect — a division of a larger dialect
- subeconomy — an economy within another economy
- subhepatic — of or relating to the liver.
- subject to — under the condition that
- subjectify — to make subjective.
- subjecting — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
- subjection — the act of subjecting.