10-letter words containing c, a, s, b
- ascribable — to credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute: The alphabet is usually ascribed to the Phoenicians.
- aspectable — having the ability to be seen
- associable — that can be associated or connected in the mind
- athabascan — a family of languages spoken by American Indians in most of inland northwest Canada and Alaska, in coastal Oregon and California, and in Arizona and the Rio Grande basin, and including especially Navajo, Apache, and Chipewyan. Compare family (def 14).
- attic base — (in classical architecture) a base for a column, consisting of an upper and a lower torus separated by a scotia between two fillets.
- bacchanals — Plural form of bacchanal.
- bacchantes — Plural form of bacchant.
- bachelor's — a person who has been awarded a bachelor's degree.
- back focus — the distance between the back surface of a lens and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
- back issue — A back issue of a magazine or newspaper is one that was published some time ago and is not the most recent.
- back score — a line at each end of the rink parallel to and equidistant from the foot score and the sweeping score.
- back shaft — a spindle carrying back gears.
- back shift — a group of workers who work a shift from late afternoon to midnight in an industry or occupation where a day shift or a night shift is also worked
- back slang — a type of slang in which words are spelled and, as far as possible, pronounced backwards
- back staff — an obsolete instrument for determining the altitude of the sun by facing away from the sun, sighting upon the horizon, adjusting a cursor until its shadow falls upon the sight through which the horizon appears, and measuring the resulting arc.
- back story — background information provided, often in narrative form, to give help in understanding something, as the behavior of a character in a film
- backbiters — Plural form of backbiter.
- backblocks — bush or remote farming area far distant from city amenities
- backboards — Plural form of backboard.
- backcloths — Plural form of backcloth.
- backcourts — Plural form of backcourt.
- backlashed — a sudden, forceful backward movement; recoil.
- backlasher — something or someone who produces a backlash
- backlashes — Plural form of backlash.
- backlights — Plural form of backlight.
- backlisted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlist.
- backpedals — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backpedal.
- backplanes — Plural form of backplane.
- backplates — Plural form of backplate.
- backronyms — Plural form of backronym.
- backseater — A navigator who accompanies the pilot of an aircraft.
- backsheesh — Alternative spelling of baksheesh.
- backsights — Plural form of backsight.
- backslider — A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
- backspaced — Simple past tense and past participle of backspace.
- backspaces — Plural form of backspace.
- backsplash — any tiled area by, for example, a sink, cooker or bath to prevent damage to a wall by food or water splashes
- backsplice — a knot for finishing a rope end neatly, beginning with a crown and proceeding in a series of tucks, each strand over the first adjoining strand and under the next, the strands being split in half at each tuck.
- backstairs — a secondary staircase in a house, esp one originally for the use of servants
- backstitch — a strong sewing stitch made by starting the next stitch at the middle or beginning of the preceding one
- backstreet — a street in a town remote from the main roads
- backstroke — Backstroke is a swimming stroke that you do lying on your back.
- backswings — Plural form of backswing.
- backswords — Plural form of backsword.
- backtracks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backtrack.
- backwasher — (textiles) A machine used for washing wool after carding to remove the impurities.
- backwaters — Plural form of backwater.
- backwoodsy — like or of the nature of backwoods
- bailiwicks — Plural form of bailiwick.
- balaclavas — Plural form of balaclava.