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.