10-letter words containing s, e, a, b, c
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- screw bean — a tree, Prosopis pubescens, of the legume family, native to the southwestern U.S., bearing twisted pods used as fodder.
- scrollable — able to be scrolled
- scrubbable — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
- scuba dive — go deep-sea swimming
- scuba-dive — to descend and swim underwater using a scuba device.
- 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.
- selectable — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
- shell back — an underside of a spoon bowl ornamented with a shell motif.
- 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.
- sketchable — suitable for being sketched.
- social bee — any of several bees, as the honeybees or bumblebees, that live together in communities.
- spaceborne — moving in orbit around the earth: a spaceborne surveillance system.
- stickybeak — a busybody; meddler.
- 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-clause — Grammar. a syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence.
- subacetate — a basic salt of acetic acid.
- subacutely — in a subacute manner
- subarcuate — fairly arched
- subarticle — an article that forms part of a larger or main article
- subcabinet — a group of advisers ranking below the cabinet level, chosen by a chief executive usually from members of the various executive departments.
- 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.
- subcharter — to rent a chartered vehicle
- subchelate — having a claw with one pincer longer than the other
- subclavate — somewhat club-shaped.
- subcordate — almost heart-shaped
- subdecanal — of or relating to a subdean or subdeanery
- subdialect — a division of a larger dialect