10-letter words containing e, c, b, a
- purse crab — coconut crab.
- quebrachos — Plural form of quebracho.
- quenchable — to slake, satisfy, or allay (thirst, desires, passion, etc.).
- rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
- re-embrace — to embrace again
- recallable — to bring back from memory; recollect; remember: Can you recall what she said?
- receivable — fit for acceptance; acceptable.
- 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.
- recyclable — to treat or process (used or waste materials) so as to make suitable for reuse: recycling paper to save trees.
- reichsbank — the former German national bank.
- rejectable — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
- replicable — capable of replication: The scientific experiment must be replicable in all details to be considered valid.
- reprobance — reprobation.
- republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
- resectable — able to be resected
- rice blast — a disease of rice caused by the fungus Pyricularia oryae, characterized by elliptical leaf spots with reddish-brown margins, brownish lesions and neck rot of the fruiting panicles, and stunting of the plant.
- 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 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.
- rubricated — (in ancient manuscripts, early printed books, etc.) having titles, catchwords, etc., distinctively colored.
- sabretache — a leather case suspended from a cavalryman's saddle
- saddleback — any of various animals having markings on the back that resemble a saddle, as a male harp seal.
- 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.
- scaldberry — the bramble or blackberry, Rubus fruticosus
- scale back — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
- scale-back — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
- scaleboard — a very thin board, as for the back of a picture.
- scanderbeg — (George Castriota) 1403?–68, Albanian chief and revolutionary leader.
- scarabaeid — belonging or pertaining to the Scarabaeidae, a family of lamellicorn beetles, including the scarabs, dung beetles, June bugs, and cockchafers.
- scarabaeus — scarab (defs 2, 3).
- schaerbeek — a city in central Belgium, near Brussels.
- 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.
- screw bean — a tree, Prosopis pubescens, of the legume family, native to the southwestern U.S., bearing twisted pods used as fodder.
- scrollable — able to be scrolled
- 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.
- seal beach — a town in S California.
- searchable — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- selectable — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
- shell back — an underside of a spoon bowl ornamented with a shell motif.
- 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.
- sickle bar — cutter bar (def 1).
- silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
- sketchable — suitable for being sketched.
- social bee — any of several bees, as the honeybees or bumblebees, that live together in communities.
- spaceborne — moving in orbit around the earth: a spaceborne surveillance system.