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10-letter words containing s, e, c

  • bedclothes — Bedclothes are the sheets and covers which you put over yourself when you get into bed.
  • beech mast — the edible nuts of the beech, especially when lying on the ground.
  • beechdrops — a North American flowering plant, Epifagus virginiana, which is parasitic on beech trees
  • bellyaches — Informal. a pain in the abdomen or bowels.
  • belowdecks — below a ship's deck
  • beltcourse — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
  • bench seat — a seat for more than one person
  • bench show — an exhibition of small animals, esp. dogs, or cats, displayed on benches and competing for awards on the basis of how closely they conform to ideal standards for the breed
  • bench stop — a metal device set flush with the top of a workbench and having a portion able to be raised to stop longitudinal movement of an object placed against it.
  • bench test — the critical evaluation of a new or repaired component, device, apparatus, etc, prior to installation to ensure that it is in perfect condition
  • benedictus — a short canticle beginning Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini in Latin and Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord in English
  • bergamasca — a fast dance similar to the tarantella.
  • berlusconi — Silvio (ˈsilvjo). born 1936, Italian politician and media tycoon: prime minister of Italy (1994–95, 2001–06, 2008–11); convicted of tax fraud and expelled from the Italian Senate in 2013
  • bescreened — screen (def 17).
  • bescribble — to cover with scribbles
  • beseeching — A beseeching expression, gesture, or tone of voice suggests that the person who has or makes it very much wants someone to do something.
  • besmirched — to soil; tarnish; discolor.
  • bespeckled — to speckle.
  • beta stock — any of the second rank of active securities on the Stock Exchange, of which there are about 500. Continuous display of prices by market makers is required but not immediate publication of transactions
  • bienseance — good breeding; decorum
  • big cheese — Someone who has a very important job or position can be referred to as a big cheese.
  • big screen — When people talk about the big screen, they are referring to films that are made for cinema rather than for television.
  • bile ducts — a large duct that transports bile from the liver to the duodenum, having in humans and many other vertebrates a side branch to a gallbladder for bile storage.
  • biocenosis — a community of biologically integrated and interdependent plants and animals
  • biochemist — A biochemist is a scientist or student who studies biochemistry.
  • biometrics — that branch of biology which deals with its data statistically and by mathematical analysis
  • bioprocess — a method or operation of preparing a biological material, especially a product of genetic engineering, for commercial use.
  • bioscience — the life sciences collectively
  • biospheric — relating to the biosphere
  • bitchiness — characteristic of a bitch; spiteful; malicious.
  • black sage — a shrubby Californian plant, Salvia mellifera, of the mint family, having an interrupted spike of lavender-blue or white flowers.
  • black site — a secret facility used by a country's military as a prison and interrogation centre, whose existence is denied by the government
  • black stem — a disease of plants, characterized by blackened stems and defoliation, caused by any of several fungi, as Ascochyta imperfecta or Mycosphaerella lethalis.
  • blacksnake — any of several Old World black venomous elapid snakes, esp Pseudechis porphyriacus (Australian blacksnake)
  • blackstone — Sir William. 1723–80, English jurist noted particularly for his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–69), which had a profound influence on jurisprudence in the US
  • blast cell — any undifferentiated or immature cell.
  • blastocoel — the cavity within a blastula
  • blockhouse — (formerly) a wooden fortification with ports or loopholes for defensive fire, observation, etc
  • blue cross — a nonprofit health insurance organization offering hospitalization and medical benefits to subscribers, esp. to groups of employees and their families
  • blue dicks — a plant, Dichelostemma pulchellum, of the amaryllis family, common on the western coast of the U.S., having headlike clusters of blue flowers.
  • blue-curls — any of a genus (Trichostema) of plants of the mint family, with downy, narrow leaves and blue flowers
  • blues-rock — a blend of rock-'n'-roll and blues.
  • bomb scare — an alarm arising from the fear that a bomb may have been left in a place
  • brake disc — a metal disc that revolves with the wheel in a disc brake
  • brass neck — effrontery; nerve
  • breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
  • breechless — having no breeches or trousers; bare-bottomed
  • brix scale — a scale for calibrating hydrometers used for measuring the concentration and density of sugar solutions at a given temperature
  • broadscale — on a broad scale; extensive; spread over a wide area
  • brockhouse — Bertram Neville, 1918–2003, Canadian physicist: Nobel Prize 1994.
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