10-letter words containing c, a, s, b
- black sage — a shrubby Californian plant, Salvia mellifera, of the mint family, having an interrupted spike of lavender-blue or white flowers.
- black sash — (formerly, in South Africa) an organization of women opposed to apartheid
- black shag — a large dark-coloured shag, Phalacrocorax carbo novaehollandis, of Australasian waters
- black site — a secret facility used by a country's military as a prison and interrogation centre, whose existence is denied by the government
- black spot — If you describe a place, time, or part of a situation as a black spot, you mean that it is particularly bad or likely to cause problems.
- black stem — a disease of plants, characterized by blackened stems and defoliation, caused by any of several fungi, as Ascochyta imperfecta or Mycosphaerella lethalis.
- black swan — a phenomenon that occurs even though it had been thought to be impossible
- blacklands — an area of fertile soil in Texas
- blacksburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- blackshirt — (in Europe) a member of a fascist organization, esp a member of the Italian Fascist party before and during World War II
- blacksmith — A blacksmith is a person whose job is making things by hand out of metal that has been heated to a high temperature.
- blacksnake — any of several Old World black venomous elapid snakes, esp Pseudechis porphyriacus (Australian blacksnake)
- blackstone — Sir William. 1723–80, English jurist noted particularly for his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–69), which had a profound influence on jurisprudence in the US
- blackstrap — a kind of port wine
- blast cell — any undifferentiated or immature cell.
- blastocoel — the cavity within a blastula
- blastocyst — the blastula of mammals: a sphere of cells (trophoblast) enclosing an inner mass of cells and a fluid-filled cavity (blastocoel)
- blastodisc — the blastula that forms as a flattened sphere on top of the yolk in the yolk-laden eggs of birds and reptiles.
- block mast — a short mast from the head of which a lateen yard is suspended.
- bnr pascal — ["Remote Rendezvous", N. Gammage et al, Soft Prac & Exp 17(10):741-755 (Oct 1987)].
- bois d'arc — Osage orange (def 1).
- bomb scare — an alarm arising from the fear that a bomb may have been left in a place
- bonus pack — anything sold with a product and marketed as a useful and free extra
- bovaristic — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
- box social — a fund-raising event at which donated box meals are auctioned
- brachyaxis — the shorter lateral axis of a monoclinic, orthorhombic, or triclinic crystal
- brain scan — an examination of the brain, using radiological scanning techniques, used in medical diagnosis and scientific research
- brake disc — a metal disc that revolves with the wheel in a disc brake
- brass neck — effrontery; nerve
- breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
- brix scale — a scale for calibrating hydrometers used for measuring the concentration and density of sugar solutions at a given temperature
- broadscale — on a broad scale; extensive; spread over a wide area
- bruschetta — Bruschetta is a slice of toasted bread which is brushed with olive oil and usually covered with chopped tomatoes.
- bucephalus — the favourite horse of Alexander the Great
- buchmanism — the principles or the international movement of Moral Re-Armament or of the Oxford Group, or belief in or adherence to them.
- buckpasser — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
- bulbaceous — bulbous
- bunchgrass — grass that grows in tufts
- byssaceous — consisting of fine threads
- cabalistic — of or relating to the cabala.
- cablecasts — Plural form of cablecast.
- cablegrams — Plural form of cablegram.
- cabriolets — Plural form of cabriolet.
- calabashes — Plural form of calabash.
- calabooses — Plural form of calaboose.
- calibrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calibrate.
- cancelbots — Plural form of cancelbot.
- canebrakes — Plural form of canebrake.
- canonsburg — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- cantabiles — Plural form of cantabile.