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10-letter words containing c, i, b, e

  • rubber ice — Canadian. thin ice that shifts, cracks, or groans when crossed on foot.
  • rubiaceous — belonging to the Rubiaceae, the madder family of plants.
  • rubik cube — a puzzle consisting of a cube with colored faces made of 26 smaller colored blocks attached to a spindle in the center, the object being to rotate the blocks until each face of the cube is a single color.
  • rubricated — (in ancient manuscripts, early printed books, etc.) having titles, catchwords, etc., distinctively colored.
  • scarabaeid — belonging or pertaining to the Scarabaeidae, a family of lamellicorn beetles, including the scarabs, dung beetles, June bugs, and cockchafers.
  • scrobicule — a small pit, for example around one of a sea urchin's nodules
  • scrub pine — any of several pines, as the jack pine, characterized by a scrubby or irregular manner of growth, usually found in dry, sandy soil.
  • scuba dive — go deep-sea swimming
  • scuba-dive — to descend and swim underwater using a scuba device.
  • seborrheic — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
  • semipublic — partly or to some degree public.
  • sickle bar — cutter bar (def 1).
  • sicklebill — any of various birds having a long, curved bill, as the long-billed curlew or curve-billed thrasher.
  • silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
  • sluice-box — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
  • social bee — any of several bees, as the honeybees or bumblebees, that live together in communities.
  • spiceberry — a myrtaceous tree, Eugenia rhombea, of the Caribbean and Florida, with orange or black edible fruits
  • st. brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
  • stickybeak — a busybody; meddler.
  • sub judice — before a judge or court; awaiting judicial determination.
  • subarticle — an article that forms part of a larger or main article
  • subcabinet — a group of advisers ranking below the cabinet level, chosen by a chief executive usually from members of the various executive departments.
  • subcaliber — noting or pertaining to ammunition of smaller caliber than the gun in which it is used.
  • subcalibre — (of a projectile) having a calibre less than that of the firearm from which it is discharged and therefore either fitted with a disc or fired through a tube inserted into the barrel
  • subcarbide — a carbide containing less than the normal proportion of carbon.
  • subcarrier — a carrier wave used to modify or modulate another carrier wave.
  • subceiling — a ceiling placed on a subdivision of a category; a sublimit
  • subdialect — a division of a larger dialect
  • subhepatic — of or relating to the liver.
  • subjectify — to make subjective.
  • subjecting — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
  • subjection — the act of subjecting.
  • subjective — existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective).
  • sublattice — a set of elements of a lattice, in which each subset of two elements has a least upper bound and a greatest lower bound contained in the given set.
  • sublicense — a license or contract granted to a third party by a licensee for specified rights or uses of a product, brand name, logo, etc.
  • suboceanic — occurring or existing below the floor of the ocean: suboceanic oil.
  • 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.
  • subphrenic — underneath the diaphragm
  • subscience — a science or field of study within another field of science or study
  • subscriber — a person, company, etc., that subscribes, as to a publication or concert series.
  • subsection — a part or division of a section.
  • subsidence — to sink to a low or lower level.
  • subsociety — a subdivision of a society
  • subspecies — a subdivision of a species, especially a geographical or ecological subdivision.
  • superbitch — an exceptionally spiteful woman, a very bitchy person
  • switchable — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
  • tenebrific — producing darkness.
  • tetrabasic — (of an acid) having four atoms of hydrogen replaceable by basic atoms or groups.
  • thumbpiece — a lever over the hinge on the lid of a tankard, pressed by the thumb to raise the lid.
  • tick-borne — carried or transmitted by ticks: tick-borne disease.
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