10-letter words containing o, b, t, a
- stake boat — an anchored boat to which barges or other boats are temporarily moored.
- stake body — an open truck body having a platform with sockets at the edge into which upright stakes may be placed to form a fence around a load.
- statesboro — a town in E Georgia.
- statoblast — (in certain bryozoans) an asexually produced group of cells encased in a chitinous covering that can survive unfavorable conditions, as freezing or drought, and germinate to produce a new colony.
- stereobate — the foundation or base upon which a building or the like is erected.
- sternboard — a backward motion of a boat
- stone bass — wreckfish.
- stone crab — an edible crab, Menippe mercenaria, of rocky shores from the southern U.S. to Mexico and certain areas of the Caribbean, prized for the meat of its claws.
- stonebrash — a type of subsoil consisting of small or broken stones or rock
- stonebreak — any of a variety of plants in the genus Saxifraga
- stool ball — a game resembling cricket, still played by girls and women in Sussex, England
- stoop ball — a game resembling baseball, played in a street, schoolyard, or other confined paved area, in which a ball is thrown forcibly against a stairway or wall so that it rebounds into the air, bases and runs being awarded depending on the number of bounces the ball takes before being caught by the opposing player or team.
- storm boat — assault boat.
- storyboard — a panel or panels on which a sequence of sketches depict the significant changes of action and scene in a planned film, as for a movie, television show, or advertisement.
- strabotomy — the operation of cutting one or more of the muscles of the eye to correct strabismus.
- strasbourg — a department in NE France. 1848 sq. mi. (4785 sq. km). Capital: Strasbourg.
- straw boss — someone who works alongside other workers but who also acts in a supervisory role; assistant foreman
- straw-boss — to act as a straw boss to: She was assigned to straw-boss the night shift.
- strawboard — coarse, yellow paperboard made of straw pulp, used in packing, for making boxes, etc.
- strobilate — to undergo strobilation
- strongbark — any of the several tropical American shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Bourreria, of the borage family, especially B. ovata, of southern Florida and the West Indies, having elliptic leaves and fragrant, white flowers.
- subatomics — the study of subatomic particles
- subcompact — an automobile that is smaller than a compact.
- subcordate — almost heart-shaped
- subglottal — of or relating to the glottis.
- subjugator — to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master.
- submontane — under or beneath a mountain or mountains.
- suboptimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
- suborbital — (of a spacecraft) not in orbit; not achieving an altitude and velocity resulting in a ballistic trajectory circling the earth at least once.
- substation — a branch of a main post office.
- subtotally — less than totally, incompletely
- subtractor — in electronics, a circuit of which the output depends upon the difference between two inputs
- swamp boat — Also called swamp boat. a small open boat having a very shallow draft and driven by a caged airplane propeller mounted above the rear transom, capable of traveling at relatively high speeds through shallow water, swamps, etc.
- swatchbook — a booklet containing samples (of paper, cloth, etc)
- table corn — Chiefly Eastern U.S. sweet corn.
- tablecloth — a cloth for covering the top of a table, especially during a meal.
- tablemount — guyot
- tablespoon — a spoon larger than a teaspoon or a dessert spoon, used in serving food at the table and as a standard measuring unit in recipes.
- tabloid tv — a television program or television programming that is lurid or sensational, as unconventional newscasts and gossipy talk shows.
- tabulation — to put or arrange in a tabular, systematic, or condensed form; formulate tabularly.
- tabulatory — relating to tabulation
- tailorable — capable of being made into clothing: tailorable fabrics.
- tailorbird — any of several small Asian passerine birds, especially of the genus Orthotomus, that stitch leaves together to form and conceal their nests.
- take a bow — to bend the knee or body or incline the head, as in reverence, submission, salutation, recognition, or acknowledgment.
- talk about — expressing disgust or emphasis
- tambourine — a small drum consisting of a circular frame with a skin stretched over it and several pairs of metal jingles attached to the frame, played by striking with the knuckles, shaking, and the like.
- tchoukball — a non-contact, team-orientated, ballgame developed by the Swiss biologist Dr H. Brandt, the object of the game is to throw the ball at a frame mounted with a springy surface so that it rebounds without being caught by the defending team
- the boards — the acting profession; the stage
- theophobia — morbid fear or hatred of God
- thereabout — about or near that place or time: last June or thereabout.