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10-letter words containing s, c, a, b, r

  • obfuscator — Agent noun of obfuscate; one who obfuscates.
  • obscurants — Plural form of obscurant.
  • obsecrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obsecrate.
  • observance — an act or instance of following, obeying, or conforming to: the observance of traffic laws.
  • paris club — an informal group of representatives from IMF member nations whose governments or central banks have lent money to governments of other countries
  • press-back — a wooden chair back having a design pressed, rather than carved, into its crossrails.
  • purse crab — coconut crab.
  • quebrachos — Plural form of quebracho.
  • 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.
  • reichsbank — the former German national bank.
  • 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.
  • rubiaceous — belonging to the Rubiaceae, the madder family of plants.
  • sabretache — a leather case suspended from a cavalryman's saddle
  • scaldberry — the bramble or blackberry, Rubus fruticosus
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • scroll bar — computers;
  • scrollable — able to be scrolled
  • 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.
  • scum-board — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
  • slab track — a railroad track in which the rails are attached to and supported by a bed or slab, usually of concrete.
  • snobocracy — a social class of snobs
  • spaceborne — moving in orbit around the earth: a spaceborne surveillance system.
  • 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.
  • strabismic — 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.
  • sub-branch — a further branch or division of something within an already established branch or division
  • subarcuate — fairly arched
  • subarticle — an article that forms part of a larger or main article
  • subcaliber — noting or pertaining to ammunition of smaller caliber than the gun in which it is used.
  • subcalibre — (of a projectile) having a calibre less than that of the firearm from which it is discharged and therefore either fitted with a disc or fired through a tube inserted into the barrel
  • subcarbide — a carbide containing less than the normal proportion of carbon.
  • subcarrier — a carrier wave used to modify or modulate another carrier wave.
  • subcentral — near or almost to the center.
  • subchapter — a subdivision especially of a body of laws.
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