10-letter words containing m, s, b
- resubmerge — to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.
- rhomboides — a rhomboid
- roberdsman — a robber
- salbutamol — the international generic name for albuterol.
- schaumburg — a city in NE Illinois.
- scrambling — motocross, off-road biking
- scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
- scum-board — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- seaborgium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Sg; atomic number: 106.
- self-blame — to hold responsible; find fault with; censure: I don't blame you for leaving him.
- 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.
- sex symbol — a celebrity who is held to possess abundant sex appeal.
- slumberful — characterized by sleep or slumber
- slumbering — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- slumberous — sleepy; heavy with drowsiness, as the eyelids.
- small beer — weak beer.
- small-bore — of, noting, or relating to a .22-caliber firearm.
- smart bomb — a steerable air-to-surface bomb that is guided to its target by television or a laser beam.
- smoke bomb — a bomb that produces a continuous discharge of smoke rather than an explosion, used to mark a target for aerial attack, indicate wind direction, produce a smoke screen, etc.
- smokeboard — a board situated above a fireplace to prevent the emission of smoke into a room
- smoothbore — (of firearms) having a bore that is smooth; not rifled.
- smorrebrod — hors d'oeuvres served on slices of buttered bread
- 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.
- somberness — gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted: a somber passageway.
- sombrerite — a lime and alumina phosphoric compound
- somnambule — a person who sleepwalks
- sonic boom — a loud noise caused by the shock wave generated by an aircraft moving at supersonic speed.
- spasm band — an old-time jazz band, flourishing especially in the late 19th century, the members of which used improvised instruments, as cigar boxes, barrels, kazoos, whistles, and jugs, and often marched in the street while performing.
- speed bump — a rounded ridge built crosswise into the pavement of a road or driveway to force vehicles to slow down.
- sperm bank — a repository for storing sperm and keeping it viable under scientifically controlled conditions prior to its use in artificial insemination.
- stablemate — a horse sharing a stable with another.
- steam bath — a bath of steam, usually in a specially equipped room or enclosure, for cleansing or refreshing oneself.
- steam beer — a naturally carbonated, malt-flavored beer brewed especially in the western U.S.
- stibialism — antimony poisoning
- stimulable — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stink bomb — a small glass globe, used by practical jokers: it releases a liquid with an offensive smell when broken
- storm belt — an area of the earth's surface in which storms are frequent
- storm boat — assault boat.
- stormbound — confined, detained, or isolated by storms: a stormbound ship; a stormbound village.
- strabismic — a disorder of vision due to a deviation from normal orientation of one or both eyes so that both cannot be directed at the same object at the same time; squint; crossed eyes.
- strabismus — a disorder of vision due to a deviation from normal orientation of one or both eyes so that both cannot be directed at the same object at the same time; squint; crossed eyes.
- strabotomy — the operation of cutting one or more of the muscles of the eye to correct strabismus.
- 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.
- subatomics — the study of subatomic particles