10-letter words containing e, c, b, a
- macebearer — an official, as of a city or legislative body, who carries a ceremonial mace before dignitaries.
- machinable — (of a material) capable of being cut or shaped with machine tools. Compare free-machining.
- macrobiote — a person with a long life
- main brace — a brace leading to a main yard.
- mainbocher — (Main Rousseau Bocher) 1891–1976, U.S. fashion designer.
- manducable — chewable or edible
- manuscribe — (archaic) To write by hand.
- matchboxes — Plural form of matchbox.
- metabiotic — a mode of living in which one organism is dependent on another for preparation of an environment in which it can live.
- methiocarb — a crystalline compound, C 1 1 H 1 5 NO 2 S, used as a nonsystemic insecticide and miticide.
- microbeams — Plural form of microbeam.
- microblade — bladelet.
- misbalance — To balance badly or wrongly.
- mocambique — Mozambique.
- mossbacked — Very conservative or reactionary, with old-fashioned views.
- 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.
- noncabinet — not related to or belonging to a government cabinet
- noticeable — attracting notice or attention; capable of being noticed: a noticeable lack of interest.
- noticeably — attracting notice or attention; capable of being noticed: a noticeable lack of interest.
- nucleobase — (biochemistry) The base of a nucleic acid, such as thymine, uracil, adenine, cytosine and guanine.
- obeisances — Plural form of obeisance.
- obfuscated — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- obfuscates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obfuscate.
- objectable — Capable of being put forward as an objection.
- 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.
- obstinance — The characteristic of being obstinate.
- 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.
- olfactible — Having an odor; capable of being smelled.
- on balance — a state of equilibrium or equipoise; equal distribution of weight, amount, etc.
- 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.
- outbalance — to outweigh.
- overbleach — (transitive) To bleach too much.
- palm beach — a town in SE Florida: seaside winter resort.
- park bench — a long seat made of wood or metal that two or more people can sit on, placed in a public place or open space in a town
- peach-blow — a delicate purplish pink.
- perl-byacc — A modified version of byacc that generates a parser in Perl code, by Rick Ohnemus <[email protected]>. It has a "-p" switch so multiple parsers can be used in one program (C or Perl). Version 1.8.2 should work on most Unix systems. It also works with SAS/C 6.x on Amiga.
- pernambuco — a state in NE Brazil. 38,000 sq. mi. (98,420 sq. km). Capital: Recife.
- ph balance — a method of expressing the degree of acidity or alkalinity of a solution
- picketboat — a boat which keeps guard
- 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.
- pocketable — small enough to be carried in one's pocket; pocket-size.
- prechamber — A prechamber in an engine is a small area, usually in the cylinder head, in which combustion is started before fuel enters into the main combustion chamber.
- predicable — that may be predicated or affirmed; assertable.
- press-back — a wooden chair back having a design pressed, rather than carved, into its crossrails.
- procurable — obtainable.