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10-letter words containing e, m, u, b

  • ramboesque — looking or behaving like, or characteristic of, Rambo, a fictional film character noted for his mindless brutality
  • re-plumbed — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
  • recumbency — lying down; reclining; leaning.
  • resubmerge — to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.
  • rhumb line — a curve on the surface of a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle. It is the path taken by a vessel or aircraft that maintains a constant compass direction.
  • 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.
  • seaborgium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Sg; atomic number: 106.
  • semi-bantu — a group of languages of W Africa, mainly SE Nigeria and Cameroon, that were not traditionally classed as Bantu but that show certain essential Bantu characteristics. They are now classed with Bantu in the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family
  • semidouble — having more petals than those of a single flower but fewer than those of a double flower.
  • semipublic — partly or to some degree public.
  • slumberful — characterized by sleep or slumber
  • slumbering — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
  • slumberous — sleepy; heavy with drowsiness, as the eyelids.
  • somnambule — a person who sleepwalks
  • speed bump — a rounded ridge built crosswise into the pavement of a road or driveway to force vehicles to slow down.
  • stimulable — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • stumblebum — a clumsy, second-rate prizefighter.
  • sub-member — a person, animal, plant, group, etc., that is part of a society, party, community, taxon, or other body.
  • sub-number — a numeral or group of numerals.
  • subduement — the act or process of subduing
  • subeconomy — an economy within another economy
  • subelement — a component or constituent of a whole or one of the parts into which a whole may be resolved by analysis: Bricks and mortar are elements of every masonry wall.
  • sublimable — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
  • submanager — a secondary or assistant manager
  • submariner — a member of the crew of a submarine.
  • submarines — a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under water, usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.
  • submediant — the sixth tone of a diatonic scale, being midway between the subdominant and the upper tonic.
  • submersion — to submerge.
  • submissive — inclined or ready to submit or yield to the authority of another; unresistingly or humbly obedient: submissive servants.
  • submontane — under or beneath a mountain or mountains.
  • subprimate — a primitive variety of primate
  • subproblem — any question or matter involving doubt, uncertainty, or difficulty.
  • subsegment — a part or division of a segment.
  • subsellium — misericord (def 2).
  • subsumable — to consider or include (an idea, term, proposition, etc.) as part of a more comprehensive one.
  • summer job — a job that a student does in the summer vacation
  • superjumbo — an extremely large twin-deck jet-propelled airliner that can carry over 500 passengers
  • surmisable — to think or infer without certain or strong evidence; conjecture; guess.
  • tablemount — guyot
  • tambourine — a small drum consisting of a circular frame with a skin stretched over it and several pairs of metal jingles attached to the frame, played by striking with the knuckles, shaking, and the like.
  • tannenbaum — a Christmas tree.
  • thimbleful — the amount that a thimble will hold.
  • thumbpiece — a lever over the hinge on the lid of a tankard, pressed by the thumb to raise the lid.
  • thumbscrew — a screw, the head of which is so constructed that it may be turned easily with the thumb and a finger.
  • thumbwheel — a small, partially exposed wheel that can be turned with a thumb or finger and is found on various devices such as computers or instruments
  • time about — alternately; turn and turn about
  • tuberculum — a tubercle.
  • tuberiform — in the form of a tuber
  • tumble-dry — to dry (washing) in a clothes drier in which articles are rotated vertically through heated air.
  • tumbledown — dilapidated; ruined; rundown: He lived in a tumble-down shack.
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