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10-letter words containing s, r, b

  • status bar — a row at the bottom of a window that displays information about the window, as the status of a web page load or details of an open document.
  • steam beer — a naturally carbonated, malt-flavored beer brewed especially in the western U.S.
  • stereobate — the foundation or base upon which a building or the like is erected.
  • sternboard — a backward motion of a boat
  • stillbirth — the birth of a dead child or organism.
  • 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.
  • stoneborer — an animal that can bore through rocks, esp certain types of bivalve molluscs that bore into limestone
  • stonebrash — a type of subsoil consisting of small or broken stones or rock
  • stonebreak — any of a variety of plants in the genus Saxifraga
  • storksbill — Also called heron's-bill. any of various plants belonging to the genus Erodium, of the geranium family, having deeply lobed leaves, loose clusters of pink, purple, white, or yellow flowers, and long, slender fruit.
  • storm belt — an area of the earth's surface in which storms are frequent
  • storm boat — assault boat.
  • stormbound — confined, detained, or isolated by storms: a stormbound ship; a stormbound village.
  • storyboard — a panel or panels on which a sequence of sketches depict the significant changes of action and scene in a planned film, as for a movie, television show, or advertisement.
  • 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.
  • strabismus — 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.
  • strabotomy — the operation of cutting one or more of the muscles of the eye to correct strabismus.
  • strasbourg — a department in NE France. 1848 sq. mi. (4785 sq. km). Capital: Strasbourg.
  • strassburg — a city in NE France, on the Rhine: the chief French inland port; under German rule (1870–1918); university (1567); seat of the Council of Europe and of the European Parliament. Pop: 264 115 (1999)
  • straw boss — someone who works alongside other workers but who also acts in a supervisory role; assistant foreman
  • straw-boss — to act as a straw boss to: She was assigned to straw-boss the night shift.
  • strawberry — the fruit of any stemless plant belonging to the genus Fragaria, of the rose family, consisting of an enlarged fleshy receptacle bearing achenes on its exterior.
  • strawboard — coarse, yellow paperboard made of straw pulp, used in packing, for making boxes, etc.
  • strindberg — Johan August [yoo-hahn ou-goo st] /ˈyu hɑn ˈaʊ gʊst/ (Show IPA), 1849–1912, Swedish novelist, dramatist, and essayist.
  • string bag — an openwork bag made of string, especially one with handles.
  • stringbean — any of various kinds of bean, as the green bean, the unripe pods of which are used as food, usually after stripping off the fibrous thread along the side.
  • strip bond — a bond that has been stripped into its principal certificate and interest coupons, each part to be sold separately.
  • strip club — strip joint.
  • strippable — Mining. of or relating to ore or coal that can be produced by strip mining.
  • strobilate — to undergo strobilation
  • strobiline — of or relating to a strobilus
  • strobiloid — resembling a strobila
  • strobotron — a glow lamp, used in stroboscopes, that gives very bright flashes of light in response to voltage pulses.
  • strongbark — any of the several tropical American shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Bourreria, of the borage family, especially B. ovata, of southern Florida and the West Indies, having elliptic leaves and fragrant, white flowers.
  • stubbornly — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
  • studebaker — Clement, 1831–1901, U.S. wagon maker and pioneer automobile designer.
  • sturbridge — a town in central Massachusetts: reconstruction of early American village.
  • sub-branch — a further branch or division of something within an already established branch or division
  • sub-editor — A sub-editor is a person whose job it is to check and correct articles in newspapers or magazines before they are printed.
  • sub-leader — a person or thing that leads.
  • sub-member — a person, animal, plant, group, etc., that is part of a society, party, community, taxon, or other body.
  • sub-number — a numeral or group of numerals.
  • sub-reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
  • sub-sector — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
  • subangular — fairly angular
  • subarcuate — fairly arched
  • subarticle — an article that forms part of a larger or main article
  • subaverage — a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean: Her golf average is in the 90s. My average in science has gone from B to C this semester.
  • 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
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