10-letter words containing i, b, s, e
- sluice-box — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- slumbering — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- snail bore — drill1 (def 5).
- snobbiness — condescending, patronizing, or socially exclusive; snobbish.
- snowmobile — Also called skimobile, snowcat. a motor vehicle with a revolving tread in the rear and steerable skis in the front, for traveling over snow.
- snubbiness — the state or characteristic of being snubby
- sob sister — a journalist who writes human-interest stories with sentimental pathos.
- sobersided — solemn or grave in disposition, attitude, character, etc.; serious-minded.
- sobersides — a humorless or habitually serious person.
- social bee — any of several bees, as the honeybees or bumblebees, that live together in communities.
- soil-based — having soil as the main constituent
- solubilize — to make soluble, or to increase solubility.
- sombrerite — a lime and alumina phosphoric compound
- soubriquet — sobriquet.
- sound bite — a brief, striking remark or statement excerpted from an audiotape or videotape for insertion in a broadcast news story.
- spare ribs — a cut of meat from the rib section, especially of pork or beef, with some meat adhering to the bones.
- spiceberry — a myrtaceous tree, Eugenia rhombea, of the Caribbean and Florida, with orange or black edible fruits
- spider web — the web that is spun by a spider, made of interlaced threads of viscous fluid that harden on exposure to air.
- spitballer — a pitcher who is known or believed to throw spitballs.
- spittlebug — the nymph of the froghopper, which surrounds itself with a frothy mass.
- splittable — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- st. brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
- stabilised — to make or hold stable, firm, or steadfast.
- stabilizer — a person or thing that stabilizes.
- stablished — establish.
- state bird — a bird chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
- stickybeak — a busybody; meddler.
- stimulable — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- strindberg — Johan August [yoo-hahn ou-goo st] /ˈyu hɑn ˈaʊ gʊst/ (Show IPA), 1849–1912, Swedish novelist, dramatist, and essayist.
- stringbean — any of various kinds of bean, as the green bean, the unripe pods of which are used as food, usually after stripping off the fibrous thread along the side.
- strippable — Mining. of or relating to ore or coal that can be produced by strip mining.
- strobilate — to undergo strobilation
- strobiline — of or relating to a strobilus
- sturbridge — a town in central Massachusetts: reconstruction of early American village.
- sub judice — before a judge or court; awaiting judicial determination.
- sub-editor — A sub-editor is a person whose job it is to check and correct articles in newspapers or magazines before they are printed.
- subarticle — an article that forms part of a larger or main article
- subaudible — capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard.
- subcabinet — a group of advisers ranking below the cabinet level, chosen by a chief executive usually from members of the various executive departments.
- subcaliber — noting or pertaining to ammunition of smaller caliber than the gun in which it is used.
- subcalibre — (of a projectile) having a calibre less than that of the firearm from which it is discharged and therefore either fitted with a disc or fired through a tube inserted into the barrel
- subcarbide — a carbide containing less than the normal proportion of carbon.
- subcarrier — a carrier wave used to modify or modulate another carrier wave.
- subceiling — a ceiling placed on a subdivision of a category; a sublimit
- subdialect — a division of a larger dialect
- subfebrile — pertaining to or marked by a temperature slightly above normal.
- subfertile — less than normally fertile
- subheading — a subordinate division of a title or heading.
- subhepatic — of or relating to the liver.
- subjectify — to make subjective.