10-letter words containing r, u, b, t
- rightabout — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
- robustious — rough, rude, or boisterous.
- robustness — strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
- roundabout — circuitous or indirect, as a road, journey, method, statement or person.
- roundtable — a number of persons gathered together for conference, discussion of some subject, etc., and often seated at a round table.
- rouseabout — an unskilled labourer in a shearing shed
- roustabout — a wharf laborer or deck hand, as on the Mississippi River.
- rubinstein — Anton [an-ton;; Russian uhn-tawn] /ˈæn tɒn;; Russian ʌnˈtɔn/ (Show IPA), 1829–94, Russian pianist and composer.
- rubricated — (in ancient manuscripts, early printed books, etc.) having titles, catchwords, etc., distinctively colored.
- rubythroat — a ruby-throated hummingbird
- run a bath — to turn on the taps to fill a bath with water for bathing oneself
- rustbucket — an old, run-down freighter, especially one whose hull is covered with rust.
- saintsbury — George Edward Bateman [beyt-muh n] /ˈbeɪt mən/ (Show IPA), 1845–1933, English literary critic and historian.
- scrub suit — a loose-fitting, usually two-piece garment, often of green cotton, worn by surgeons and assisting personnel in an operating room.
- shutterbug — an amateur photographer, especially one who is greatly devoted to the hobby.
- soubresaut — a jump performed with the legs held together and the body erect but slightly curved to the side.
- soubriquet — sobriquet.
- st. brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
- status bar — a row at the bottom of a window that displays information about the window, as the status of a web page load or details of an open document.
- stormbound — confined, detained, or isolated by storms: a stormbound ship; a stormbound village.
- 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.
- strasbourg — a department in NE France. 1848 sq. mi. (4785 sq. km). Capital: Strasbourg.
- strassburg — a city in NE France, on the Rhine: the chief French inland port; under German rule (1870–1918); university (1567); seat of the Council of Europe and of the European Parliament. Pop: 264 115 (1999)
- strip club — strip joint.
- stubbornly — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
- studebaker — Clement, 1831–1901, U.S. wagon maker and pioneer automobile designer.
- sturbridge — a town in central Massachusetts: reconstruction of early American village.
- 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.
- subarcuate — fairly arched
- subarticle — an article that forms part of a larger or main article
- subcentral — near or almost to the center.
- subchapter — a subdivision especially of a body of laws.
- subcharter — to rent a chartered vehicle
- subcircuit — a circuit within another circuit
- subcluster — a number of things of the same kind, growing or held together; a bunch: a cluster of grapes.
- 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.
- subcordate — almost heart-shaped
- subcrustal — situated or occurring below the crust of the earth.
- subculture — Bacteriology. to cultivate (a bacterial strain) again on a new medium.
- subcurrent — a not clearly revealed or formulated direction of thought, intention, action, etc., underlying what is manifested: His words, though ostensibly friendly, betrayed a subcurrent of hostility.
- subfertile — less than normally fertile
- subintrant — having attacks or fits one after the other
- subjugator — to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master.
- subnatural — existing in or formed by nature (opposed to artificial): a natural bridge.
- 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.
- subprefect — an administrator junior to a prefect or chief official
- subprimate — a primitive variety of primate
- subproduct — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.