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10-letter words containing h, e, b, r

  • schaerbeek — a city in central Belgium, near Brussels.
  • schoenberg — Arnold (ˈarnɔlt). 1874–1951, Austrian composer and musical theorist, in the US after 1933. The harmonic idiom of such early works as the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (1899) gave way to his development of atonality, as in the song cycle Pierrot Lunaire (1912), and later of the twelve-tone technique. He wrote many choral, orchestral, and chamber works and the unfinished opera Moses and Aaron
  • 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.
  • seborrheic — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
  • seborrhoea — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
  • shark bell — a bell sounded to warn swimmers of the presence of sharks
  • sheepberry — a North American shrub or small tree, Viburnum lentago, of the honeysuckle family, having flat-topped clusters of small white flowers and edible, berrylike black drupes.
  • sherbrooke — a city in S Quebec, in SE Canada.
  • ship-bread — hardtack.
  • shore bird — a bird that frequents seashores, estuaries, etc., as the snipe, sandpiper, plover, and turnstone; a limicoline bird.
  • 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.
  • shortbread — a butter cookie commonly made in thick, pie-shaped wheels or rolled and cut in fancy shapes.
  • showboater — a boat, especially a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.
  • shrewsbury — a city now part of Shrewsbury and Atcham, in Salop, in W England.
  • shutterbug — an amateur photographer, especially one who is greatly devoted to the hobby.
  • sloth bear — a coarse-haired, long-snouted bear, Ursus ursinus, of India and Indochina: now rare.
  • smoothbore — (of firearms) having a bore that is smooth; not rifled.
  • squabasher — a person who squabashes someone or something
  • stonebrash — a type of subsoil consisting of small or broken stones or rock
  • subchapter — a subdivision especially of a body of laws.
  • subcharter — to rent a chartered vehicle
  • subphrenic — underneath the diaphragm
  • subtrahend — a number that is subtracted from another.
  • superbitch — an exceptionally spiteful woman, a very bitchy person
  • tetherball — a game for two persons, in which each player, standing on each side of a post from the top of which a ball is suspended by a cord, hits the ball with the hand or a paddle in a direction opposite to that in which the other player hits it, the object being to coil the cord completely around the post.
  • tetrabrach — a metrical foot or word of four short syllables.
  • tetterbush — an evergreen shrub, Lyonia lucida, of the southeastern U.S., having leathery leaves and white to pink flowers.
  • the absurd — the conception of the world, esp in Existentialist thought, as neither designed nor predictable but irrational and meaningless
  • the better — something that is the more excellent, useful, etc, of two such things
  • the boards — the acting profession; the stage
  • the bowery — a street in New York City noted for its cheap hotels and bars, frequented by vagrants and drunks
  • the breaks — to smash, split, or divide into parts violently; reduce to pieces or fragments: He broke a vase.
  • the burren — a limestone area on the North Clare coast in the Irish Republic, famous for its wild flowers, caves, and dolmens
  • the rabbis — the early Jewish scholars whose teachings are recorded in the Talmud
  • the rabble — the common people
  • thereabout — about or near that place or time: last June or thereabout.
  • thimblerig — a sleight-of-hand swindling game in which the operator palms a pellet or pea while appearing to cover it with one of three thimblelike cups, and then, moving the cups about, offers to bet that no one can tell under which cup the pellet or pea lies.
  • third base — the third in counterclockwise order of the bases from home plate.
  • threadbare — having the nap worn off so as to lay bare the threads of the warp and woof, as a fabric, garment, etc.
  • thrombogen — prothrombin.
  • thrombosed — affected with a thrombus or blood clot
  • thumbscrew — a screw, the head of which is so constructed that it may be turned easily with the thumb and a finger.
  • thunbergia — any of various plants, vines, or shrubs belonging to the genus Thunbergia, of the acanthus family, native to Africa and southern Asia, having variously colored flowers and often cultivated as ornamentals in warm regions.
  • thunderbox — a portable boxlike lavatory seat that can be placed over a hole in the ground
  • timberhead — the top end of a timber, rising above the deck and serving for belaying ropes.
  • tithe barn — a large barn where, formerly, the agricultural tithe of a parish was stored
  • turcophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
  • turkophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
  • ubermensch — superman (def 2).
  • umber moth — any of various brownish geometrid moths, esp the waved umber (Menophra abruptaria) and small waved umber (Horisme vitalbata), that are cryptically marked to merge with tree bark, and the mottled umber (Erannis defoliaria) whose looper larvae can strip branches and even trees
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