10-letter words containing c, u, e, b
- obfuscated — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- obfuscates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obfuscate.
- obsequence — willingness or eagerness to comply, please, serve, etc.; obsequiousness.
- 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
- occupiable — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- orbiculate — orbicular; rounded.
- outbalance — to outweigh.
- pernambuco — a state in NE Brazil. 38,000 sq. mi. (98,420 sq. km). Capital: Recife.
- picturable — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
- procumbent — lying on the face; prone; prostrate.
- procurable — obtainable.
- producible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- pubescence — arriving or arrived at puberty.
- pubic lice — small parasites that live in pubic hair. They are also found in the armpits and eyebrows
- public eye — public attention or notice; limelight: a politician who keeps out of the public eye.
- publicised — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
- publicized — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
- publicness — the quality or state of being public or being owned by the public.
- purse crab — coconut crab.
- quebrachos — Plural form of quebracho.
- quenchable — to slake, satisfy, or allay (thirst, desires, passion, etc.).
- recoupable — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
- recumbency — lying down; reclining; leaning.
- republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
- rickburner — an arsonist who sets fire to haystacks
- 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.
- rubber ice — Canadian. thin ice that shifts, cracks, or groans when crossed on foot.
- rubberneck — to look about or stare with great curiosity, as by craning the neck or turning the head.
- 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.
- rustbucket — an old, run-down freighter, especially one whose hull is covered with rust.
- sauce boat — a low, boat-shaped container for serving sauce or gravy, typically having a handle at one end and a long, wide lip at the other end.
- scarabaeus — scarab (defs 2, 3).
- 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.
- scrubbable — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
- scuba dive — go deep-sea swimming
- scuba-dive — to descend and swim underwater using a scuba device.
- semipublic — partly or to some degree public.
- shock tube — an apparatus in which a gas is heated to very high temperatures by means of a shock wave, usually for spectroscopic investigation of the natures and reactions of the resulting radicals and excited molecules
- sluice-box — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- sourcebook — a book which contains sources of information on a particular subject
- st. brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
- stock cube — bouillon cube used for gravy, etc.
- sub judice — before a judge or court; awaiting judicial determination.
- sub-clause — Grammar. a syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence.
- sub-sector — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.