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.