9-letter words containing s, a, b, c
- rock bass — a game fish, Ambloplites rupestris, of the sunfish family, inhabiting freshwater streams of the eastern U.S.
- sand crab — any of several crabs that live on sandy beaches, as the ghost crab or mole crab.
- sarbacane — a type of blowpipe
- sauceboat — 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.
- scabicide — Also, scabicidal. destructive to the organisms causing scabies.
- scabietic — a contagious skin disease occurring especially in sheep and cattle and also in humans, caused by the itch mite, Sarcoptes scabiei, which burrows under the skin. Compare itch (def 10), mange.
- scablands — rough, barren, volcanic topography with thin soils and little vegetation.
- scannable — to glance at or over or read hastily: to scan a page.
- scaraboid — of, relating to, or resembling a scarabaeid
- schoolbag — a bag used for carrying books, school supplies, etc.
- scoopable — able to be scooped
- scrabbled — to scratch or scrape, as with the claws or hands.
- scrambler — a person or thing that scrambles.
- scrapable — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
- scrapbook — an album in which pictures, newspaper clippings, etc., may be pasted or mounted.
- scrape by — If someone scrapes by, they earn just enough money to live on with difficulty.
- screwable — able to be screwed
- screwball — Slang. an eccentric or whimsically eccentric person; a nut.
- screwbean — a small tree or shrub of the south-western United States that has edible pods
- scribable — able to be written or written on
- scrub jay — a crestless jay, Aphelocoma coerulescens, of the western and southern U.S. and Mexico, having blue and grayish plumage.
- scrub oak — any of several oaks, as Quercus ilicifolia and Q. prinoides, characterized by a scrubby manner of growth, usually found in dry, rocky soil.
- scrubland — land on which the natural vegetation is chiefly scrub.
- scrutable — capable of being understood by careful study or investigation.
- scumboard — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- scuzzball — Also called scuzzball [skuhz-bawl] /ˈskʌzˌbɔl/ (Show IPA), scuzzbucket [skuhz-buhk-it] /ˈskʌzˌbʌk ɪt/ (Show IPA). a dirty, grimy, sordid, or repulsive person or thing.
- scybalous — of or relating to scybalum
- seat back — the part of a chair or seat that you rest your back against
- sebaceous — pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling tallow or fat; fatty; greasy.
- securable — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- sell-back — an act or instance of selling something previously purchased.
- semblance — outward aspect or appearance.
- shambolic — very disorganized; messy or confused: I’ve had a shambolic year, the worst ever.
- shellback — an old sailor.
- shoeblack — bootblack.
- sibilance — hissing.
- slab cake — a large square or rectangular-shaped cake
- slat back — a chair back having two or more horizontal slats between upright posts.
- slice bar — a long-handled instrument with a blade at the end, for clearing away or breaking up clinkers, coal, etc., in a furnace.
- slingback — Also called sling. a woman's shoe with an open back and a strap or sling encircling the heel of the foot to keep the shoe secure.
- smack dab — Smack dab is used in expressions such as 'smack dab in the middle' of somewhere to mean exactly in that place.
- smack-dab — directly; squarely: smack-dab in the middle.
- snack bar — a lunchroom or restaurant where light meals are sold.
- snap back — a sudden rebound or recovery.
- snow crab — an edible spider crab of the North Pacific, Chionoecetes opilio, commercially important as a frozen seafood product.
- space bar — a horizontal bar on a typewriter keyboard that is depressed in order to resume typing one space to the right.
- space-bar — a horizontal bar on a typewriter keyboard that is depressed in order to resume typing one space to the right.
- spaceband — a device on a linecaster for evening up the spaces between words
- stab kick — a rapid kick of the ball from one player to another member of his team
- stackable — capable of being stacked, especially easily: stackable chairs.