10-letter words containing b, u, t, s, r
- 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.
- subfertile — less than normally fertile
- subintrant — having attacks or fits one after the other
- subjugator — to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master.
- subnatural — existing in or formed by nature (opposed to artificial): a natural bridge.
- subnitrate — a basic salt of nitric acid.
- suborbital — (of a spacecraft) not in orbit; not achieving an altitude and velocity resulting in a ballistic trajectory circling the earth at least once.
- subprefect — an administrator junior to a prefect or chief official
- subprimate — a primitive variety of primate
- subproduct — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
- subproject — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- subquarter — one of the quarterings of a grand quarter.
- subreption — Canon Law. a concealment of the pertinent facts in a petition, as for dispensation or favor, that in certain cases nullifies the grant. Compare obreption (def 1).
- subroutine — an instruction sequence in a machine or assembly language program that can be prewritten and referred to as often as needed. Compare procedure (def 4a).
- substellar — having a mass smaller than the mass needed by stars for nuclear fusion
- substernal — of or relating to the sternum.
- substratal — something that is spread or laid under something else; a stratum or layer lying under another.
- substratum — something that is spread or laid under something else; a stratum or layer lying under another.
- subsultory — moving in starts or twitches; relating to subsultus
- subterfuge — an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.
- subterrain — a cave or subterranean room.
- subterrane — a cave or subterranean room.
- subtractor — in electronics, a circuit of which the output depends upon the difference between two inputs
- subtrahend — a number that is subtracted from another.
- subtropics — the region lying between the tropics and temperate lands
- subvariety — a minor or subordinate variety
- sugar beet — various cultivars of a beet, Beta vulgaris, of the amaranth family, having a white root, cultivated for the sugar it yields.
- superbitch — an exceptionally spiteful woman, a very bitchy person
- tankbuster — an aircraft, missile, etc designed to destroy tanks
- tenebrious — dark; gloomy; obscure.
- tetterbush — an evergreen shrub, Lyonia lucida, of the southeastern U.S., having leathery leaves and white to pink flowers.
- tewkesbury — a town in N Gloucestershire, in W England: final defeat of the Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses 1471.
- the absurd — the conception of the world, esp in Existentialist thought, as neither designed nor predictable but irrational and meaningless
- thumbscrew — a screw, the head of which is so constructed that it may be turned easily with the thumb and a finger.
- to be sure — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- toothbrush — a small brush with a long handle, for cleaning the teeth.
- trolleybus — a passenger bus operating on tires and having an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires.
- true basic — (language) A compiled BASIC, by John Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, requiring no line numbers.
- tuberosity — a rough projection or protuberance of a bone, as for the attachment of a muscle.
- turboshaft — a gas turbine used to deliver shaft power, as to a helicopter rotor.
- ultrabasic — (of rocks) containing iron and magnesium, with little or no silica.
- urbanistic — of or relating to urbanism.
- vestibular — of, relating to, or resembling a vestibule.
- waterbucks — Plural form of waterbuck.
- waterbuses — Plural form of waterbus.
- word burst — a greater than normal rate of occurrence of a particular word in a given context, esp in weblogs