10-letter words containing s, b, c
- obstinance — The characteristic of being obstinate.
- obstinancy — (rare) Obstinance; the characteristic of being obstinate.
- obstructed — Simple past tense and past participle of obstruct.
- obstructer — Someone who obstructs, agent noun of obstruct.
- obstructor — Obstructer.
- osso bucco — a stew, originally from Italy, made with knuckle of veal, cooked in tomato sauce
- paris club — an informal group of representatives from IMF member nations whose governments or central banks have lent money to governments of other countries
- pecos bill — a legendary cowboy of the American frontier who performed such fabulous feats as digging the Rio Grande.
- pick basic — Data/BASIC
- plebiscite — a direct vote of the qualified voters of a state in regard to some important public question.
- prebiotics — natural substances in some foods that encourage the growth of healthy bacteria in the gut
- prescribed — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- prescriber — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- press-back — a wooden chair back having a design pressed, rather than carved, into its crossrails.
- probiotics — a therapeutic treatment involving the ingestion of harmless bacteria
- proscribed — condemned or prohibited
- psilocybin — a hallucinogenic crystalline solid, C 1 2 H 1 7 N 2 O 4 P, obtained from the mushroom Psilocybe mexicana.
- pubescence — arriving or arrived at puberty.
- publicised — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
- publicness — the quality or state of being public or being owned by the public.
- purse crab — coconut crab.
- qabalistic — Alternative spelling of cabalistic.
- qt-objects — A library by Michael Travers <[email protected]> and others providing an interface between MCL and QuickTime.
- quebrachos — Plural form of quebracho.
- quillbacks — Plural form of quillback.
- rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
- reclosable — capable of being closed again easily or tightly after opening: a reclosable box of crackers.
- redescribe — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- reichsbank — the former German national bank.
- reinscribe — to address or dedicate (a book, photograph, etc.) informally to a person, especially by writing a brief personal note in or on it.
- resectable — able to be resected
- rice blast — a disease of rice caused by the fungus Pyricularia oryae, characterized by elliptical leaf spots with reddish-brown margins, brownish lesions and neck rot of the fruiting panicles, and stunting of the plant.
- roboticist — a specialist in robots or robotics.
- rubiaceous — belonging to the Rubiaceae, the madder family of plants.
- rustbucket — an old, run-down freighter, especially one whose hull is covered with rust.
- sabbatical — of or pertaining or appropriate to the Sabbath.
- sabretache — a leather case suspended from a cavalryman's saddle
- saddleback — any of various animals having markings on the back that resemble a saddle, as a male harp seal.
- 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.
- scaldberry — the bramble or blackberry, Rubus fruticosus
- scale back — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
- scale-back — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
- scaleboard — a very thin board, as for the back of a picture.
- scanderbeg — (George Castriota) 1403?–68, Albanian chief and revolutionary leader.
- scarabaeid — belonging or pertaining to the Scarabaeidae, a family of lamellicorn beetles, including the scarabs, dung beetles, June bugs, and cockchafers.
- scarabaeus — scarab (defs 2, 3).
- schaerbeek — a city in central Belgium, near Brussels.
- schaumburg — a city in NE Illinois.
- schoenberg — Arnold (ˈarnɔlt). 1874–1951, Austrian composer and musical theorist, in the US after 1933. The harmonic idiom of such early works as the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (1899) gave way to his development of atonality, as in the song cycle Pierrot Lunaire (1912), and later of the twelve-tone technique. He wrote many choral, orchestral, and chamber works and the unfinished opera Moses and Aaron
- school bus — a vehicle used to transport students to and from school or used for other related purposes.