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10-letter words containing s, r, b

  • subsurface — below the surface, especially of a body of water.
  • subterfuge — an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.
  • subterrain — a cave or subterranean room.
  • subterrane — a cave or subterranean room.
  • subtractor — in electronics, a circuit of which the output depends upon the difference between two inputs
  • subtrahend — a number that is subtracted from another.
  • subtropics — the region lying between the tropics and temperate lands
  • subvariety — a minor or subordinate variety
  • subversion — an act or instance of subverting.
  • subversive — Also, subversionary [suh b-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-] /səbˈvɜr ʒəˌnɛr i, -ʃə-/ (Show IPA). tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.
  • sufferable — to undergo or feel pain or distress: The patient is still suffering.
  • sugar beet — various cultivars of a beet, Beta vulgaris, of the amaranth family, having a white root, cultivated for the sugar it yields.
  • sugar bird — any of various honeycreepers that feed on nectar.
  • sugar bowl — a small bowl, usually having a cover, for serving granulated sugar or sugar cubes.
  • sugar bush — an evergreen shrub, Rhus ovata, of the cashew family, native to the desert regions of the southwestern U.S., having light yellow flowers in short, dense spikes and hairy, dark-red fruit.
  • sugar cube — small block of sugar
  • sugarberry — a hackberry, Celtis laevigata, of the southern U.S.
  • sulzberger — Arthur Hays, 1891–1968, U.S. newspaper publisher.
  • summer job — a job that a student does in the summer vacation
  • super band — the band of frequencies between 216 and 600 megahertz, used for cable television channels and Citizens Band.
  • super bowl — the annual championship football game between the best team of the National Football Conference and that of the American Football Conference.
  • superbeing — the fact of existing; existence (as opposed to nonexistence).
  • superbitch — an exceptionally spiteful woman, a very bitchy person
  • superblock — an area of city land larger than the usual block, treated according to a unified plan and generally closed to vehicular through traffic.
  • superboard — a wooden board with exceptional properties of some kind
  • superbrain — (computer)   A personal computer released in 1980 by Intertec. The Superbrain had two Z80A microprocessors running at 4 MHz, one for the main processing and the other for peripheral activities. It had an integrated keyboard and display. It was sold with the CP/M operating system, Microsoft Basic, an 8080 assembler and Microsoft Cobol 74. The base model, the "Superbrain 10", had no drives, only a network connection. Other models added one or two 5" floppy disc units. The "Jr" had 170K drives (single-sided), the "QD" had 340 KB drives (double-sided) and the "SD" had 780k. Intertec did not sell or support a hard drive or an S-100 bus for these machines. The network version of the SuperBrain was called CompuStar. The network was a large gray parallel cable. CompuStar had three "file servers" that accepted up to 255 machines. These were the "DSS-10" with a 10MB 8" Winchester drive; the "CDC" with 96MB consisting of 80MB fixed and a 16MB removable platter; and the "Priam" with a 144MB 14" platter winchester. Intertec manufactured the controllers for the last two and an enclosure and power supply for the Priam. CDC had to go on-site to install the 96MB. The SuperBrain was succeeded in 1982 by the SuperBrain II.
  • superjumbo — an extremely large twin-deck jet-propelled airliner that can carry over 500 passengers
  • suprapubic — above the pubic bone
  • surmisable — to think or infer without certain or strong evidence; conjecture; guess.
  • suruga bay — a bay in the Pacific Ocean, on the SE coast of Honshu, Japan.
  • survivable — able to be survived: Would an atomic war be survivable?
  • svetambara — one of the two principal Jain sects, whose members wear white and believe that women can attain salvation.
  • swedenborg — Emanuel [ih-man-yoo-uh l;; Swedish e-mah-noo-uh l] /ɪˈmæn yu əl;; Swedish ɛˈmɑ nu əl/ (Show IPA), (Emanuel Swedberg) 1688–1772, Swedish scientist, philosopher, and mystic.
  • sweetbread — Also called stomach sweetbread. the pancreas of an animal, especially a calf or a lamb, used for food.
  • sweetbrier — a rose, Rosa eglanteria, of Europe and central Asia, having a tall stem, stout, hooked prickles often mixed with bristles, and single, pink flowers.
  • swinglebar — a whiffletree.
  • sword bean — a twining vine, Canavalia gladiata, of the legume family, found in the tropics of the Eastern Hemisphere, having large, showy, pealike flowers and reddish-brown seeds.
  • sword belt — a military belt from which a sword may be hung.
  • sybaritism — (usually lowercase) a person devoted to luxury and pleasure.
  • symbolizer — a person or thing that symbolizes something else
  • szymborska — Wislawa [vis-lah-vah] /vɪsˈlɑ vɑ/ (Show IPA), 1923–2012, Polish poet: Nobel prize 1996.
  • tankbuster — an aircraft, missile, etc designed to destroy tanks
  • tenebrious — dark; gloomy; obscure.
  • tetrabasic — (of an acid) having four atoms of hydrogen replaceable by basic atoms or groups.
  • tetterbush — an evergreen shrub, Lyonia lucida, of the southeastern U.S., having leathery leaves and white to pink flowers.
  • tewkesbury — a town in N Gloucestershire, in W England: final defeat of the Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses 1471.
  • the absurd — the conception of the world, esp in Existentialist thought, as neither designed nor predictable but irrational and meaningless
  • the boards — the acting profession; the stage
  • the breaks — to smash, split, or divide into parts violently; reduce to pieces or fragments: He broke a vase.
  • the rabbis — the early Jewish scholars whose teachings are recorded in the Talmud
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