10-letter words containing s, a, b, t
- stab wound — knife injury
- stabbingly — in a stabbing way
- stabilised — to make or hold stable, firm, or steadfast.
- stabilizer — a person or thing that stabilizes.
- stable boy — A stable boy is a young man who works in a stable looking after the horses.
- stable fly — a blood-sucking muscid fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, that attacks man and domestic animals
- stable lad — A stable lad is the same as a stable boy.
- 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
- stablemate — a horse sharing a stable with another.
- stableness — not likely to fall or give way, as a structure, support, foundation, etc.; firm; steady.
- stablished — establish.
- 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.
- stale bull — a dealer or speculator who holds unsold commodities after a rise in market prices but who cannot trade because there are no buyers at the new levels and because his financial commitments prevent him from making further purchases
- stalinabad — a former name of Dushanbe.
- stand back — retreat, stay at a distance
- stand bail — to act as surety (for someone)
- state bank — a bank chartered by a state and operated under the banking laws of that state.
- state bird — a bird chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
- statesboro — a town in E Georgia.
- statoblast — (in certain bryozoans) an asexually produced group of cells encased in a chitinous covering that can survive unfavorable conditions, as freezing or drought, and germinate to produce a new colony.
- 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.
- statutable — (of an offense) recognized by statute; legally punishable.
- steam bath — a bath of steam, usually in a specially equipped room or enclosure, for cleansing or refreshing oneself.
- steam beer — a naturally carbonated, malt-flavored beer brewed especially in the western U.S.
- steel band — a band, native to Trinidad and common in the West Indies, using steel drums cut to various heights and tuned to specific pitches.
- stereobate — the foundation or base upon which a building or the like is erected.
- sternboard — a backward motion of a boat
- stibialism — antimony poisoning
- stickybeak — a busybody; meddler.
- stimulable — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stink ball — stinkpot (def 1).
- 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.
- stonebrash — a type of subsoil consisting of small or broken stones or rock
- stonebreak — any of a variety of plants in the genus Saxifraga
- stool ball — a game resembling cricket, still played by girls and women in Sussex, England
- stoop ball — a game resembling baseball, played in a street, schoolyard, or other confined paved area, in which a ball is thrown forcibly against a stairway or wall so that it rebounds into the air, bases and runs being awarded depending on the number of bounces the ball takes before being caught by the opposing player or team.
- storm boat — assault boat.
- storyboard — a panel or panels on which a sequence of sketches depict the significant changes of action and scene in a planned film, as for a movie, television show, or advertisement.
- 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.
- strabotomy — the operation of cutting one or more of the muscles of the eye to correct strabismus.
- 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)
- straw boss — someone who works alongside other workers but who also acts in a supervisory role; assistant foreman
- straw-boss — to act as a straw boss to: She was assigned to straw-boss the night shift.
- strawberry — the fruit of any stemless plant belonging to the genus Fragaria, of the rose family, consisting of an enlarged fleshy receptacle bearing achenes on its exterior.
- strawboard — coarse, yellow paperboard made of straw pulp, used in packing, for making boxes, etc.
- string bag — an openwork bag made of string, especially one with handles.