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10-letter words containing r, a, b, i, s

  • ship-bread — hardtack.
  • siad barre — Muhammad, 1919–1995, Somali army officer and political leader: president 1969–91.
  • sibilatory — characterized by hissing or whistling
  • sickle bar — cutter bar (def 1).
  • sideboards — a piece of furniture, as in a dining room, often with shelves, drawers, etc., for holding articles of table service.
  • silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
  • sinkerball — sinker (def 5).
  • snail bore — drill1 (def 5).
  • spare ribs — a cut of meat from the rib section, especially of pork or beef, with some meat adhering to the bones.
  • spitballer — a pitcher who is known or believed to throw spitballs.
  • stabilizer — a person or thing that stabilizes.
  • state bird — a bird chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
  • 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.
  • string bag — an openwork bag made of string, especially one with handles.
  • stringbean — any of various kinds of bean, as the green bean, the unripe pods of which are used as food, usually after stripping off the fibrous thread along the side.
  • strippable — Mining. of or relating to ore or coal that can be produced by strip mining.
  • strobilate — to undergo strobilation
  • subarticle — an article that forms part of a larger or main article
  • subcaliber — noting or pertaining to ammunition of smaller caliber than the gun in which it is used.
  • subcalibre — (of a projectile) having a calibre less than that of the firearm from which it is discharged and therefore either fitted with a disc or fired through a tube inserted into the barrel
  • subcarbide — a carbide containing less than the normal proportion of carbon.
  • subcarrier — a carrier wave used to modify or modulate another carrier wave.
  • subcranial — of the area beneath the cranium or skull
  • subintrant — having attacks or fits one after the other
  • submariner — a member of the crew of a submarine.
  • submarines — a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under water, usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.
  • subnitrate — a basic salt of nitric acid.
  • suborbital — (of a spacecraft) not in orbit; not achieving an altitude and velocity resulting in a ballistic trajectory circling the earth at least once.
  • subordinal — of, relating to, or ranked as a suborder.
  • subprimate — a primitive variety of primate
  • subsidiary — serving to assist or supplement; auxiliary; supplementary.
  • subterrain — a cave or subterranean room.
  • subvariety — a minor or subordinate variety
  • sugar bird — any of various honeycreepers that feed on nectar.
  • superbrain — (computer)   A personal computer released in 1980 by Intertec. The Superbrain had two Z80A microprocessors running at 4 MHz, one for the main processing and the other for peripheral activities. It had an integrated keyboard and display. It was sold with the CP/M operating system, Microsoft Basic, an 8080 assembler and Microsoft Cobol 74. The base model, the "Superbrain 10", had no drives, only a network connection. Other models added one or two 5" floppy disc units. The "Jr" had 170K drives (single-sided), the "QD" had 340 KB drives (double-sided) and the "SD" had 780k. Intertec did not sell or support a hard drive or an S-100 bus for these machines. The network version of the SuperBrain was called CompuStar. The network was a large gray parallel cable. CompuStar had three "file servers" that accepted up to 255 machines. These were the "DSS-10" with a 10MB 8" Winchester drive; the "CDC" with 96MB consisting of 80MB fixed and a 16MB removable platter; and the "Priam" with a 144MB 14" platter winchester. Intertec manufactured the controllers for the last two and an enclosure and power supply for the Priam. CDC had to go on-site to install the 96MB. The SuperBrain was succeeded in 1982 by the SuperBrain II.
  • suprapubic — above the pubic bone
  • surmisable — to think or infer without certain or strong evidence; conjecture; guess.
  • survivable — able to be survived: Would an atomic war be survivable?
  • swinglebar — a whiffletree.
  • sybaritism — (usually lowercase) a person devoted to luxury and pleasure.
  • tetrabasic — (of an acid) having four atoms of hydrogen replaceable by basic atoms or groups.
  • the rabbis — the early Jewish scholars whose teachings are recorded in the Talmud
  • third base — the third in counterclockwise order of the bases from home plate.
  • tibiotarsi — a long bone in a bird's leg between the femur (thighbone) and tibia (shinbone)
  • trail boss — (in Western U.S.) a person responsible for driving a herd of cattle.
  • transcribe — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
  • true basic — (language)   A compiled BASIC, by John Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, requiring no line numbers.
  • ultrabasic — (of rocks) containing iron and magnesium, with little or no silica.
  • unprisable — not able to be prised or released from a grip
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