10-letter words containing s, a, b, t
- adjustable — If something is adjustable, it can be changed to different positions or sizes.
- adjustably — In a way that is adjustable.
- adsorbates — Plural form of adsorbate.
- adumbrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adumbrate.
- aerobatics — Aerobatics are skilful displays of flying, usually to entertain people watching from the ground.
- aktyubinsk — city in W Kazakhstan: pop. 248,000
- alabastron — a jar characteristically having an elongated shape, narrow neck, flat-rimmed mouth, and rounded base requiring a stand or support, chiefly used for fragrant ointments.
- alabastrum — alabastron.
- albinistic — Of or pertaining to albinism.
- algebraist — an expert in algebra.
- all thumbs — clumsy
- ambushment — an act or instance of lying concealed so as to attack by surprise: The highwaymen waited in ambush near the road.
- ambystomid — Also called mole salamander. any of various small- to moderate-sized salamanders of the genus Ambystoma, terrestrial or semiaquatic, inhabiting North America from New England to Florida and westward to Texas.
- amebocytes — Plural form of amebocyte, an alternative spelling of amoebocyte.
- ameloblast — a type of cell involved in forming dental enamel
- anabaptise — to rebaptise
- anabaptism — a member of any of various Protestant sects, formed in Europe after 1520, that denied the validity of infant baptism, baptized believers only, and advocated social and economic reforms as well as the complete separation of church and state.
- anabaptist — a member of any of various 16th-century Protestant movements that rejected infant baptism, insisted that adults be rebaptized, and sought to establish Christian communism
- angioblast — one of several mesenchymal cells capable of developing into the endothelium of the blood vessels.
- antibiosis — an association between two organisms, esp microorganisms, that is harmful to one of them
- antibodies — any of numerous Y -shaped protein molecules produced by B cells as a primary immune defense, each molecule and its clones having a unique binding site that can combine with the complementary site of a foreign antigen, as on a virus or bacterium, thereby disabling the antigen and signaling other immune defenses. Abbreviation: Ab.
- antibusing — opposed to busing, the policy of transporting students to faraway schools in order to achieve racial balance within the public education system
- antirabies — acting against or preventing rabies
- aquabatics — gymnastic feats performed in water
- arbalester — a soldier carrying an arbalest
- arbitrages — Plural form of arbitrage.
- arbitrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of arbitrate.
- arboretums — Plural form of arboretum.
- archiblast — egg protoplasm
- arcubalist — an arbalest
- arrestable — An arrestable offence is an offence that you can be arrested for.
- arse about — to play the fool; act stupidly, esp in an irritating manner
- asbestosis — inflammation of the lungs resulting from chronic inhalation of asbestos particles
- ascerbated — Simple past tense and past participle of ascerbate.
- ascorbates — Plural form of ascorbate.
- aspectable — having the ability to be seen
- assertable — having the ability to be affirmed or professed or deserving of affirmation
- assibilate — (of a speech sound) to be changed into a sibilant
- astarboard — to or from the starboard side
- astrobleme — a mark on the earth's surface, usually circular, formed by a large ancient meteorite impact
- astrolabes — Plural form of astrolabe.
- athabascan — a family of languages spoken by American Indians in most of inland northwest Canada and Alaska, in coastal Oregon and California, and in Arizona and the Rio Grande basin, and including especially Navajo, Apache, and Chipewyan. Compare family (def 14).
- athabaskan — a family of North American Indian languages, including Chipewyan, Hupa, and Navajo
- attestable — Able to be attested.
- attic base — (in classical architecture) a base for a column, consisting of an upper and a lower torus separated by a scotia between two fillets.
- attributes — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- aubergiste — an innkeeper or hotelier
- baby split — a split in which the two and seven pins or the three and ten pins remain standing.
- babysitter — to take charge of a child while the parents are temporarily away.
- bacchantes — Plural form of bacchant.