10-letter words containing o, s, b, r, n
- somberness — gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted: a somber passageway.
- soundboard — sounding board.
- spaceborne — moving in orbit around the earth: a spaceborne surveillance system.
- sternboard — a backward motion of a boat
- 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.
- stoneborer — an animal that can bore through rocks, esp certain types of bivalve molluscs that bore into limestone
- stonebrash — a type of subsoil consisting of small or broken stones or rock
- stonebreak — any of a variety of plants in the genus Saxifraga
- stormbound — confined, detained, or isolated by storms: a stormbound ship; a stormbound village.
- strip bond — a bond that has been stripped into its principal certificate and interest coupons, each part to be sold separately.
- strobiline — of or relating to a strobilus
- strobotron — a glow lamp, used in stroboscopes, that gives very bright flashes of light in response to voltage pulses.
- 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.
- stubbornly — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
- sub-reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- subcontrol — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- subjoinder — something subjoined, as an additional comment.
- submersion — to submerge.
- subordinal — of, relating to, or ranked as a suborder.
- subreption — Canon Law. a concealment of the pertinent facts in a petition, as for dispensation or favor, that in certain cases nullifies the grant. Compare obreption (def 1).
- subroutine — an instruction sequence in a machine or assembly language program that can be prewritten and referred to as often as needed. Compare procedure (def 4a).
- subversion — an act or instance of subverting.
- swedenborg — Emanuel [ih-man-yoo-uh l;; Swedish e-mah-noo-uh l] /ɪˈmæn yu əl;; Swedish ɛˈmɑ nu əl/ (Show IPA), (Emanuel Swedberg) 1688–1772, Swedish scientist, philosopher, and mystic.
- sword bean — a twining vine, Canavalia gladiata, of the legume family, found in the tropics of the Eastern Hemisphere, having large, showy, pealike flowers and reddish-brown seeds.
- tenebrious — dark; gloomy; obscure.
- trombonist — musician who plays the trombone
- unabsorbed — not absorbed or taken in
- unobscured — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- unobserved — to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
- vibrations — the act of vibrating.
- waynesboro — a city in N Virginia.