10-letter words containing i, s, b
- rise above — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- risibility — Often, risibilities. the ability or disposition to laugh; humorous awareness of the ridiculous and absurd.
- roboticist — a specialist in robots or robotics.
- robustious — rough, rude, or boisterous.
- rubiaceous — belonging to the Rubiaceae, the madder family of plants.
- rubiginose — rust-coloured or rusty
- rubiginous — rusty; rust-colored; brownish-red.
- rubinstein — Anton [an-ton;; Russian uhn-tawn] /ˈæn tɒn;; Russian ʌnˈtɔn/ (Show IPA), 1829–94, Russian pianist and composer.
- sabbatical — of or pertaining or appropriate to the Sabbath.
- sabinianus — died a.d. 606, pope 604–606.
- 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
- saintsbury — George Edward Bateman [beyt-muh n] /ˈbeɪt mən/ (Show IPA), 1845–1933, English literary critic and historian.
- salability — subject to or suitable for sale; readily sold: The books were sent back by the store in salable condition.
- salifiable — to form into a salt, as by chemical combination.
- salubrious — favorable to or promoting health; healthful: salubrious air.
- san benito — a city in S Texas.
- sand blind — not completely blind; partially able to see
- sand-blind — partially blind; dim-sighted.
- 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.
- scrabbling — to scratch or scrape, as with the claws or hands.
- scrambling — motocross, off-road biking
- scribbling — to tear apart (wool fibers) in the first stages of carding.
- scrobicule — a small pit, for example around one of a sea urchin's nodules
- scrub bird — either of two Australian passerine birds of the genus Atrichornis, related to the lyrebirds, having a loud voice and reduced powers of flight: A. clamosus is endangered.
- 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.
- scrub suit — a loose-fitting, usually two-piece garment, often of green cotton, worn by surgeons and assisting personnel in an operating room.
- scrub-bird — either of two Australian passerine birds of the genus Atrichornis, related to the lyrebirds, having a loud voice and reduced powers of flight: A. clamosus is endangered.
- 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
- shikibuton — futon.
- ship's boy — a male attendant, as a cabin boy, steward, etc., employed to wait on a ship's passengers or officers.