10-letter words containing i, b, s, e
- rubiaceous — belonging to the Rubiaceae, the madder family of plants.
- rubiginose — rust-coloured or rusty
- rubinstein — Anton [an-ton;; Russian uhn-tawn] /ˈæn tɒn;; Russian ʌnˈtɔn/ (Show IPA), 1829–94, Russian pianist and composer.
- saddlebill — a large stork, Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, of West Africa, having a white and black body and a long, red and black bill.
- sailboater — a person who sails a boat
- salifiable — to form into a salt, as by chemical combination.
- san benito — a city in S Texas.
- sb's likes — someone's favourable feelings, desires, preferences, etc
- scarabaeid — belonging or pertaining to the Scarabaeidae, a family of lamellicorn beetles, including the scarabs, dung beetles, June bugs, and cockchafers.
- 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.
- scuba dive — go deep-sea swimming
- scuba-dive — to descend and swim underwater using a scuba device.
- seaborgium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Sg; atomic number: 106.
- sebiferous — producing or carrying a fatty, oily, or waxlike substance
- seborrheic — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
- self-build — the practice of building one's own home
- semblative — resembling
- 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.
- senegambia — a region in W Africa between the Senegal and Gambia rivers, now mostly in Senegal.
- sensibilia — those things which can be sensed
- sewability — the ability to be sewn or stitched
- sewing bee — a small informal social gathering (usually of women) based around the activity of making or mending clothes or other things with a needle and thread
- shabbiness — impaired by wear, use, etc.; worn: shabby clothes.
- sheathbill — either of two white sea birds, Chionis alba or C. minor, of the colder parts of the Southern Hemisphere: so called from the horny sheath covering the base of the upper bill.
- shebagging — the practice by a female passenger on public transport of placing a bag on the seat beside her, so denying it to another passenger
- shibboleth — a peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons.
- shield bug — any shield-shaped herbivorous heteropterous insect of the superfamily Pentamoidea, esp any of the family Pentatomidae
- ship-bread — hardtack.
- shore bird — a bird that frequents seashores, estuaries, etc., as the snipe, sandpiper, plover, and turnstone; a limicoline bird.
- siad barre — Muhammad, 1919–1995, Somali army officer and political leader: president 1969–91.
- sickle bar — cutter bar (def 1).
- sicklebill — any of various birds having a long, curved bill, as the long-billed curlew or curve-billed thrasher.
- side table — a table intended to be placed against a wall.
- side-table — a table intended to be placed against a wall.
- sideboards — a piece of furniture, as in a dining room, often with shelves, drawers, etc., for holding articles of table service.
- sideburned — having sideburns
- sieva bean — butter bean.
- sieve tube — a vertical series of sieve cells in the phloem, specialized for the conduction of food materials.
- silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
- silverberg — Robert, born 1935, U.S. science-fiction writer.
- silverbill — a species of finch of the genus Munia
- single bed — bed for one person
- sinkerball — sinker (def 5).
- slab-sided — having the sides long and flat, like slabs.
- slabbiness — the state or condition of being slabby
- sleigh bed — a bed resembling a sleigh in shape, with curved boards at the head and foot
- slobbering — to let saliva or liquid run from the mouth; slaver; drivel.