10-letter words containing b, s, e, t
- presbytism — the condition of being affected by presbyopia
- problemist — someone who composes and solves problems, esp in chess or mathematics
- qt-objects — A library by Michael Travers <[email protected]> and others providing an interface between MCL and QuickTime.
- quodlibets — Plural form of quodlibet.
- rabbitries — Plural form of rabbitry.
- re-baptism — a new or second baptism
- resectable — able to be resected
- resemblant — having a resemblance or similarity (sometimes followed by to): two persons with resemblant features.
- resettable — able to be reset
- resistible — that can be resisted.
- restorable — to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish: to restore order.
- rice blast — a disease of rice caused by the fungus Pyricularia oryae, characterized by elliptical leaf spots with reddish-brown margins, brownish lesions and neck rot of the fruiting panicles, and stunting of the plant.
- roast beef — cow's meat cooked in oven
- robustness — strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
- rouseabout — an unskilled labourer in a shearing shed
- rubinstein — Anton [an-ton;; Russian uhn-tawn] /ˈæn tɒn;; Russian ʌnˈtɔn/ (Show IPA), 1829–94, Russian pianist and composer.
- rustbucket — an old, run-down freighter, especially one whose hull is covered with rust.
- sabretache — a leather case suspended from a cavalryman's saddle
- sailboater — a person who sails a boat
- san benito — a city in S Texas.
- sand table — a table with raised edges holding sand for children to play with.
- sauce boat — a low, boat-shaped container for serving sauce or gravy, typically having a handle at one end and a long, wide lip at the other end.
- sea battle — a battle fought at sea, using ships and boats
- sebastopol — Sevastopol.
- selectable — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
- self-doubt — lack of confidence in the reliability of one's own motives, personality, thought, etc.
- semblative — resembling
- semi-bantu — a group of languages of W Africa, mainly SE Nigeria and Cameroon, that were not traditionally classed as Bantu but that show certain essential Bantu characteristics. They are now classed with Bantu in the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family
- sentry box — a small structure for sheltering a sentry from bad weather.
- settee bed — a settee which can be folded out to form a bed; sofabed
- sewability — the ability to be sewn or stitched
- sex object — a person viewed as being of little interest or merit beyond the potential for providing sexual gratification.
- sheathbill — either of two white sea birds, Chionis alba or C. minor, of the colder parts of the Southern Hemisphere: so called from the horny sheath covering the base of the upper bill.
- sheet bend — a knot used esp for joining ropes of different sizes
- shibboleth — a peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons.
- 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
- shortbread — a butter cookie commonly made in thick, pie-shaped wheels or rolled and cut in fancy shapes.
- showboater — a boat, especially a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.
- shutterbug — an amateur photographer, especially one who is greatly devoted to the hobby.
- side table — a table intended to be placed against a wall.
- side-table — a table intended to be placed against a wall.
- sieve tube — a vertical series of sieve cells in the phloem, specialized for the conduction of food materials.
- skateboard — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
- sketchable — suitable for being sketched.
- sketchbook — Also, sketchpad. a book or pad of drawing paper for sketches.
- slate blue — a moderate to dark grayish blue.
- slate-blue — of a dark greyish-blue colour
- sloth bear — a coarse-haired, long-snouted bear, Ursus ursinus, of India and Indochina: now rare.
- smoothbore — (of firearms) having a bore that is smooth; not rifled.
- sob sister — a journalist who writes human-interest stories with sentimental pathos.