10-letter words containing c, e, r, b, o
- microprobe — Chemistry, Spectroscopy. a device used to excite radiation by a material in order to determine chemical or elemental composition from the emission spectrum produced.
- microtubes — Plural form of microtube.
- nicobarese — a member of a people or group of peoples inhabiting the Nicobar Islands.
- non-breach — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- obrenovich — Alexander, Alexander I (def 3).
- obsecrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obsecrate.
- observance — an act or instance of following, obeying, or conforming to: the observance of traffic laws.
- obstetrics — the branch of medical science concerned with childbirth and caring for and treating women in or in connection with childbirth. Abbreviation: OB, ob.
- obstructed — Simple past tense and past participle of obstruct.
- obstructer — Someone who obstructs, agent noun of obstruct.
- obtruncate — to slice or chop off the head or top part of
- open brace — left brace
- oracle rdb — (database) A set of relational database products originally known as Rdb from Digital Equipment Corporation, but purchased by Oracle Corporation in 1994. The current (October 1996) versions are Oracle Rdb V7.0 for OpenVMS VAX, Oracle Rdb V7.0 for OpenVMS Alpha, and Oracle Rdb V7.0 for Digital UNIX. This release of Oracle Rdb includes advances in non-stop computing for business critical applications, improvements to OLTP performance, and easy client/server application development. It also includes an ODBC Driver.
- orbiculate — orbicular; rounded.
- overbleach — (transitive) To bleach too much.
- pernambuco — a state in NE Brazil. 38,000 sq. mi. (98,420 sq. km). Capital: Recife.
- prebiotics — natural substances in some foods that encourage the growth of healthy bacteria in the gut
- probenecid — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 1 3 H 1 9 NO 4 S, used chiefly in the treatment of gout.
- procumbent — lying on the face; prone; prostrate.
- procurable — obtainable.
- producible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- proscribed — condemned or prohibited
- quebrachos — Plural form of quebracho.
- rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
- reblocking — a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more flat or approximately flat faces.
- reckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- reclosable — capable of being closed again easily or tightly after opening: a reclosable box of crackers.
- recordable — to set down in writing or the like, as for the purpose of preserving evidence.
- recoupable — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
- reprobance — reprobation.
- rochambeau — Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur [zhahn ba-teest daw-na-syan duh vee-mœr] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist dɔ naˈsyɛ̃ də viˈmœr/ (Show IPA), Count de, 1725–1807, French general: marshal of France 1791–1807; commander of the French army in the American Revolution.
- rock borer — any of various sea creatures that bore into rock, such as some sea urchins, sponges, annelid worms, barnacles, isopods, and molluscs
- rock brake — any of various ferns of the genera Pellaea and Cryptogramma, which grow on rocky ground and have sori at the ends of the veins
- rubiaceous — belonging to the Rubiaceae, the madder family of plants.
- scaleboard — a very thin board, as for the back of a picture.
- schoenberg — Arnold (ˈarnɔlt). 1874–1951, Austrian composer and musical theorist, in the US after 1933. The harmonic idiom of such early works as the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (1899) gave way to his development of atonality, as in the song cycle Pierrot Lunaire (1912), and later of the twelve-tone technique. He wrote many choral, orchestral, and chamber works and the unfinished opera Moses and Aaron
- 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.
- scrobicule — a small pit, for example around one of a sea urchin's nodules
- scrollable — able to be scrolled
- seborrheic — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
- 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.
- sourcebook — a book which contains sources of information on a particular subject
- spaceborne — moving in orbit around the earth: a spaceborne surveillance system.
- stone crab — an edible crab, Menippe mercenaria, of rocky shores from the southern U.S. to Mexico and certain areas of the Caribbean, prized for the meat of its claws.
- sub-sector — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- subcordate — almost heart-shaped
- subofficer — a person who holds a position of rank or authority in the army, navy, air force, or any similar organization, especially one who holds a commission.
- subprocess — a process that is part of a larger process
- subproject — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- superblock — an area of city land larger than the usual block, treated according to a unified plan and generally closed to vehicular through traffic.