10-letter words containing o, s, t, e, b
- prebiotics — natural substances in some foods that encourage the growth of healthy bacteria in the gut
- problemist — someone who composes and solves problems, esp in chess or mathematics
- qt-objects — A library by Michael Travers <[email protected]> and others providing an interface between MCL and QuickTime.
- quodlibets — Plural form of quodlibet.
- restorable — to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish: to restore order.
- roast beef — cow's meat cooked in oven
- robustness — strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
- rouseabout — an unskilled labourer in a shearing shed
- sailboater — a person who sails a boat
- san benito — a city in S Texas.
- sauce boat — a low, boat-shaped container for serving sauce or gravy, typically having a handle at one end and a long, wide lip at the other end.
- sebastopol — Sevastopol.
- self-doubt — lack of confidence in the reliability of one's own motives, personality, thought, etc.
- sentry box — a small structure for sheltering a sentry from bad weather.
- sex object — a person viewed as being of little interest or merit beyond the potential for providing sexual gratification.
- shibboleth — a peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons.
- shock tube — an apparatus in which a gas is heated to very high temperatures by means of a shock wave, usually for spectroscopic investigation of the natures and reactions of the resulting radicals and excited molecules
- shortbread — a butter cookie commonly made in thick, pie-shaped wheels or rolled and cut in fancy shapes.
- showboater — a boat, especially a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.
- skateboard — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
- sketchbook — Also, sketchpad. a book or pad of drawing paper for sketches.
- sloth bear — a coarse-haired, long-snouted bear, Ursus ursinus, of India and Indochina: now rare.
- smoothbore — (of firearms) having a bore that is smooth; not rifled.
- sob sister — a journalist who writes human-interest stories with sentimental pathos.
- softballer — a person who plays or is an enthusiast of softball.
- sombrerite — a lime and alumina phosphoric compound
- soubresaut — a jump performed with the legs held together and the body erect but slightly curved to the side.
- soubriquet — sobriquet.
- sound bite — a brief, striking remark or statement excerpted from an audiotape or videotape for insertion in a broadcast news story.
- south bend — a city in N Indiana.
- stable boy — A stable boy is a young man who works in a stable looking after the horses.
- stableford — a scoring system in which points are awarded according to the number of strokes taken at each hole, whereby a hole completed in one stroke over par counts as one point, a hole completed in level par counts as two points, etc
- 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.
- stereobate — the foundation or base upon which a building or the like is erected.
- sternboard — a backward motion of a boat
- steve jobs — Stephen Jobs
- stock cube — bouillon cube used for gravy, etc.
- 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.
- 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
- storm belt — an area of the earth's surface in which storms are frequent
- stove bolt — a small bolt, similar to a machine screw but with a coarser thread.
- strobilate — to undergo strobilation
- strobiline — of or relating to a strobilus
- 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.
- sub-sector — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.