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10-letter words containing s, u, b, c

  • publicised — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
  • publicness — the quality or state of being public or being owned by the public.
  • purse crab — coconut crab.
  • quebrachos — Plural form of quebracho.
  • quillbacks — Plural form of quillback.
  • rubiaceous — belonging to the Rubiaceae, the madder family of plants.
  • rustbucket — an old, run-down freighter, especially one whose hull is covered with rust.
  • 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.
  • scarabaeus — scarab (defs 2, 3).
  • schaumburg — a city in NE Illinois.
  • school bus — a vehicle used to transport students to and from school or used for other related purposes.
  • scrobicule — a small pit, for example around one of a sea urchin's nodules
  • 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.
  • scuba dive — go deep-sea swimming
  • scuba-dive — to descend and swim underwater using a scuba device.
  • scum-board — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
  • semipublic — partly or to some degree public.
  • shock tube — an apparatus in which a gas is heated to very high temperatures by means of a shock wave, usually for spectroscopic investigation of the natures and reactions of the resulting radicals and excited molecules
  • sluice-box — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
  • sourcebook — a book which contains sources of information on a particular subject
  • springbuck — springbok.
  • squib kick — a kickoff that is purposely low so it will wobble and bounce along the ground, making it hard to field and return.
  • st. brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
  • sticky bun — honey bun (def 1).
  • stock cube — bouillon cube used for gravy, etc.
  • strip club — strip joint.
  • sub judice — before a judge or court; awaiting judicial determination.
  • sub-branch — a further branch or division of something within an already established branch or division
  • sub-clause — Grammar. a syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence.
  • sub-sector — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
  • subacetate — a basic salt of acetic acid.
  • subacutely — in a subacute manner
  • subaquatic — living or growing partly on land, partly in water.
  • subarcuate — fairly arched
  • subarticle — an article that forms part of a larger or main article
  • subatomics — the study of subatomic particles
  • 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.
  • subceiling — a ceiling placed on a subdivision of a category; a sublimit
  • subcentral — near or almost to the center.
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