10-letter words containing s, b, c
- schoolbook — a book for study in schools.
- scooby doo — a clue
- scoreboard — a large, usually rectangular board in a ballpark, sports arena, or the like, that shows the score of a contest and often other relevant facts and figures, as the count of balls and strikes on a baseball batter.
- scottsboro — a town in NE Alabama.
- 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.
- scribbling — to tear apart (wool fibers) in the first stages of carding.
- scrobicule — a small pit, for example around one of a sea urchin's nodules
- scroll bar — computers;
- scrollable — able to be scrolled
- scrub bird — either of two Australian passerine birds of the genus Atrichornis, related to the lyrebirds, having a loud voice and reduced powers of flight: A. clamosus is endangered.
- scrub fowl — megapode.
- scrub pine — any of several pines, as the jack pine, characterized by a scrubby or irregular manner of growth, usually found in dry, sandy soil.
- scrub suit — a loose-fitting, usually two-piece garment, often of green cotton, worn by surgeons and assisting personnel in an operating room.
- scrub-bird — either of two Australian passerine birds of the genus Atrichornis, related to the lyrebirds, having a loud voice and reduced powers of flight: A. clamosus is endangered.
- 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.
- seal beach — a town in S California.
- searchable — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- seborrheic — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
- selectable — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
- semipublic — partly or to some degree public.
- sex object — a person viewed as being of little interest or merit beyond the potential for providing sexual gratification.
- shell back — an underside of a spoon bowl ornamented with a shell motif.
- shock tube — an apparatus in which a gas is heated to very high temperatures by means of a shock wave, usually for spectroscopic investigation of the natures and reactions of the resulting radicals and excited molecules
- shore crab — any of numerous crabs that live along the shoreline between the tidemarks, as Hemigrapsus nudus (purple shore crab) of the Pacific coast of North America.
- sickle bar — cutter bar (def 1).
- sicklebill — any of various birds having a long, curved bill, as the long-billed curlew or curve-billed thrasher.
- silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
- sketchable — suitable for being sketched.
- sketchbook — Also, sketchpad. a book or pad of drawing paper for sketches.
- slab track — a railroad track in which the rails are attached to and supported by a bed or slab, usually of concrete.
- 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.
- sluice-box — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- snobocracy — a social class of snobs
- social bee — any of several bees, as the honeybees or bumblebees, that live together in communities.
- sonic boom — a loud noise caused by the shock wave generated by an aircraft moving at supersonic speed.
- sourcebook — a book which contains sources of information on a particular subject
- spaceborne — moving in orbit around the earth: a spaceborne surveillance system.
- spiceberry — a myrtaceous tree, Eugenia rhombea, of the Caribbean and Florida, with orange or black edible fruits
- splashback — a sheet of glass, plastic, etc, attached to a wall above a basin to protect the wall against splashing
- spoon back — a back of a chair or the like, having a splat curved outward at the bottom.
- springbuck — springbok.
- squib kick — a kickoff that is purposely low so it will wobble and bounce along the ground, making it hard to field and return.
- st. brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.