10-letter words containing s, a, b, u
- quillbacks — Plural form of quillback.
- ramboesque — looking or behaving like, or characteristic of, Rambo, a fictional film character noted for his mindless brutality
- reissuable — (of notes, bills, money, etc) able to be reissued
- rouseabout — an unskilled labourer in a shearing shed
- roustabout — a wharf laborer or deck hand, as on the Mississippi River.
- rubiaceous — belonging to the Rubiaceae, the madder family of plants.
- ruby glass — glass having a red color resulting from the addition of gold, copper, or selenium to the batch.
- ruby laser — a solid-state, pulsed laser that uses a ruby crystal to produce a very strong beam of red coherent light, used in making holographs and in cosmetic instruments.
- sabinianus — died a.d. 606, pope 604–606.
- saintsbury — George Edward Bateman [beyt-muh n] /ˈbeɪt mən/ (Show IPA), 1845–1933, English literary critic and historian.
- salbutamol — the international generic name for albuterol.
- salubrious — favorable to or promoting health; healthful: salubrious air.
- sauce boat — 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.
- saxon blue — a dye made by dissolving indigo in a solution of sulphuric acid
- scarabaeus — scarab (defs 2, 3).
- schaumburg — a city in NE Illinois.
- scrubbable — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
- scrubboard — washboard (defs 1, 2).
- scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
- scuba dive — go deep-sea swimming
- scuba-dive — to descend and swim underwater using a scuba device.
- scum-board — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- seaborgium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Sg; atomic number: 106.
- self-abuse — reproach or blame of oneself.
- semi-bantu — a group of languages of W Africa, mainly SE Nigeria and Cameroon, that were not traditionally classed as Bantu but that show certain essential Bantu characteristics. They are now classed with Bantu in the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family
- sharpsburg — a town in NW Maryland: nearby is the site of the Civil War battle of Antietam 1862.
- slate blue — a moderate to dark grayish blue.
- slate-blue — of a dark greyish-blue colour
- sobhuza ii — 1899–1982, king of Swaziland 1921–82.
- somnambule — a person who sleepwalks
- soubresaut — a jump performed with the legs held together and the body erect but slightly curved to the side.
- soundboard — sounding board.
- spuleblade — the shoulder blade
- squabasher — a person who squabashes someone or something
- squabbling — act of quarrelling
- squash bug — a dark-brown bug, Anasa tristis, that sucks the sap from the leaves of squash, pumpkin, and other plants of the gourd family.
- squashable — easily squashed; soft
- squawk box — the speaker of a public-address system or an intercom system; loudspeaker.
- squeezable — easily squeezed, compressed, or the like.
- stab wound — knife injury
- 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
- 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.
- stimulable — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- 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)
- studebaker — Clement, 1831–1901, U.S. wagon maker and pioneer automobile designer.
- sub-branch — a further branch or division of something within an already established branch or division
- sub-clause — Grammar. a syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence.