10-letter words containing c, a, b, s
- obstinance — The characteristic of being obstinate.
- obstinancy — (rare) Obstinance; the characteristic of being obstinate.
- paris club — an informal group of representatives from IMF member nations whose governments or central banks have lent money to governments of other countries
- pick basic — Data/BASIC
- press-back — a wooden chair back having a design pressed, rather than carved, into its crossrails.
- purse crab — coconut crab.
- qabalistic — Alternative spelling of cabalistic.
- quebrachos — Plural form of quebracho.
- quillbacks — Plural form of quillback.
- rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
- reclosable — capable of being closed again easily or tightly after opening: a reclosable box of crackers.
- reichsbank — the former German national bank.
- resectable — able to be resected
- 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.
- rubiaceous — belonging to the Rubiaceae, the madder family of plants.
- sabbatical — of or pertaining or appropriate to the Sabbath.
- sabretache — a leather case suspended from a cavalryman's saddle
- saddleback — any of various animals having markings on the back that resemble a saddle, as a male harp seal.
- 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.
- scaldberry — the bramble or blackberry, Rubus fruticosus
- scale back — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
- scale-back — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
- scaleboard — a very thin board, as for the back of a picture.
- scanderbeg — (George Castriota) 1403?–68, Albanian chief and revolutionary leader.
- scarabaeid — belonging or pertaining to the Scarabaeidae, a family of lamellicorn beetles, including the scarabs, dung beetles, June bugs, and cockchafers.
- scarabaeus — scarab (defs 2, 3).
- schaerbeek — a city in central Belgium, near Brussels.
- schaumburg — a city in NE Illinois.
- scoreboard — a large, usually rectangular board in a ballpark, sports arena, or the like, that shows the score of a contest and often other relevant facts and figures, as the count of balls and strikes on a baseball batter.
- scrabbling — to scratch or scrape, as with the claws or hands.
- scrambling — motocross, off-road biking
- screw bean — a tree, Prosopis pubescens, of the legume family, native to the southwestern U.S., bearing twisted pods used as fodder.
- scroll bar — computers;
- scrollable — able to be scrolled
- scrubbable — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
- scrubboard — washboard (defs 1, 2).
- scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
- scuba dive — go deep-sea swimming
- scuba-dive — to descend and swim underwater using a scuba device.
- scum-board — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- seal beach — a town in S California.
- searchable — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- selectable — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
- shell back — an underside of a spoon bowl ornamented with a shell motif.
- 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).
- 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.
- slab track — a railroad track in which the rails are attached to and supported by a bed or slab, usually of concrete.
- sling-back — Also called sling. a woman's shoe with an open back and a strap or sling encircling the heel of the foot to keep the shoe secure.