10-letter words containing s, b, c, a, n
- nucleobase — (biochemistry) The base of a nucleic acid, such as thymine, uracil, adenine, cytosine and guanine.
- obeisances — Plural form of obeisance.
- obscurants — Plural form of obscurant.
- observance — an act or instance of following, obeying, or conforming to: the observance of traffic laws.
- obstinance — The characteristic of being obstinate.
- obstinancy — (rare) Obstinance; the characteristic of being obstinate.
- rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
- reichsbank — the former German national bank.
- scanderbeg — (George Castriota) 1403?–68, Albanian chief and revolutionary leader.
- scrabbling — to scratch or scrape, as with the claws or hands.
- scrambling — motocross, off-road biking
- screw bean — a tree, Prosopis pubescens, of the legume family, native to the southwestern U.S., bearing twisted pods used as fodder.
- scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
- sling-back — 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.
- snobocracy — a social class of snobs
- spaceborne — moving in orbit around the earth: a spaceborne surveillance system.
- spoon back — a back of a chair or the like, having a splat curved outward at the bottom.
- stand back — retreat, stay at a distance
- 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.
- sub-branch — a further branch or division of something within an already established branch or division
- subcabinet — a group of advisers ranking below the cabinet level, chosen by a chief executive usually from members of the various executive departments.
- subcentral — near or almost to the center.
- subclavian — situated or extending beneath the clavicle, as certain arteries or veins.
- subcompany — subsidiary company.
- subcranial — of the area beneath the cranium or skull
- subdecanal — of or relating to a subdean or subdeanery
- subnascent — growing underneath
- subnuclear — pertaining to particles within or smaller than an atomic nucleus.
- suboceanic — occurring or existing below the floor of the ocean: suboceanic oil.
- tiny basic — (language) A dialect of BASIC developed by Dr. Wang [Wong?] in the late 1970s. Tiny BASIC was 2K bytes in size and was loaded from paper tape. It ran on almost any Intel 8080 or Zilog Z80 microprocessor for which the user could provide the necessary I/O driver software. Tiny BASIC was distributed as [the first ever?] freeware. The program listing contained the following phrases "All Wrongs reserved" and "CopyLeft", he obviously wasn't interested in money. See also Tiny Basic Interpreter Language.
- transcribe — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
- unscabbard — to remove (a sword, etc) from its sheath
- unscalable — capable of being scaled: the scalable slope of a mountain.
- unscramble — to bring out of a scrambled condition; reduce to order or intelligibility.
- unsociable — not sociable; having, showing, or marked by a disinclination to friendly social relations; withdrawn.
- urbanistic — of or relating to urbanism.
- webcasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.