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10-letter words containing s, r, b

  • 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.
  • scum-board — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
  • sea breeze — a thermally produced wind blowing from a cool ocean surface onto adjoining warm land.
  • sea robber — a pirate.
  • sea-breeze — a thermally produced wind blowing from a cool ocean surface onto adjoining warm land.
  • seaborgium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Sg; atomic number: 106.
  • seal brown — a rich, dark brown suggestive of dressed and dyed sealskin.
  • 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.
  • sebiferous — producing or carrying a fatty, oily, or waxlike substance
  • seborrheic — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
  • seborrhoea — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
  • segregable — to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate: to segregate exceptional children; to segregate hardened criminals.
  • sentry box — a small structure for sheltering a sentry from bad weather.
  • shark bell — a bell sounded to warn swimmers of the presence of sharks
  • sharpsburg — a town in NW Maryland: nearby is the site of the Civil War battle of Antietam 1862.
  • sheepberry — a North American shrub or small tree, Viburnum lentago, of the honeysuckle family, having flat-topped clusters of small white flowers and edible, berrylike black drupes.
  • sherbrooke — a city in S Quebec, in SE Canada.
  • ship-bread — hardtack.
  • shore bird — a bird that frequents seashores, estuaries, etc., as the snipe, sandpiper, plover, and turnstone; a limicoline bird.
  • 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.
  • short bill — a bill of exchange that is payable at sight, on demand, or within less than ten days
  • short ribs — the rib ends of beef from the forequarter, next to the plate
  • shortboard — a type of surfboard that is shorter than standard
  • shortbread — a butter cookie commonly made in thick, pie-shaped wheels or rolled and cut in fancy shapes.
  • showboater — a boat, especially a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.
  • shrewsbury — a city now part of Shrewsbury and Atcham, in Salop, in W England.
  • shutterbug — an amateur photographer, especially one who is greatly devoted to the hobby.
  • siad barre — Muhammad, 1919–1995, Somali army officer and political leader: president 1969–91.
  • sibilatory — characterized by hissing or whistling
  • sickle bar — cutter bar (def 1).
  • sideboards — a piece of furniture, as in a dining room, often with shelves, drawers, etc., for holding articles of table service.
  • sideburned — having sideburns
  • silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
  • silverberg — Robert, born 1935, U.S. science-fiction writer.
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