10-letter words containing t, e, s, u, b
- pasturable — capable of providing pasture, as land.
- petersburg — a city in SE Virginia: besieged by Union forces 1864–65.
- postbellum — occurring after a war, especially after the American Civil War: postbellum reforms.
- quodlibets — Plural form of quodlibet.
- robustness — strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
- rouseabout — an unskilled labourer in a shearing shed
- rubinstein — Anton [an-ton;; Russian uhn-tawn] /ˈæn tɒn;; Russian ʌnˈtɔn/ (Show IPA), 1829–94, Russian pianist and composer.
- 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.
- self-doubt — lack of confidence in the reliability of one's own motives, personality, thought, etc.
- semi-bantu — a group of languages of W Africa, mainly SE Nigeria and Cameroon, that were not traditionally classed as Bantu but that show certain essential Bantu characteristics. They are now classed with Bantu in the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family
- 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
- shutterbug — an amateur photographer, especially one who is greatly devoted to the hobby.
- sieve tube — a vertical series of sieve cells in the phloem, specialized for the conduction of food materials.
- slate blue — a moderate to dark grayish blue.
- slate-blue — of a dark greyish-blue colour
- soubresaut — a jump performed with the legs held together and the body erect but slightly curved to the side.
- soubriquet — sobriquet.
- sound bite — a brief, striking remark or statement excerpted from an audiotape or videotape for insertion in a broadcast news story.
- south bend — a city in N Indiana.
- spittlebug — the nymph of the froghopper, which surrounds itself with a frothy mass.
- st. brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
- stale bull — a dealer or speculator who holds unsold commodities after a rise in market prices but who cannot trade because there are no buyers at the new levels and because his financial commitments prevent him from making further purchases
- statutable — (of an offense) recognized by statute; legally punishable.
- steel blue — dark bluish gray.
- stimulable — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stock cube — bouillon cube used for gravy, etc.
- studebaker — Clement, 1831–1901, U.S. wagon maker and pioneer automobile designer.
- stumblebum — a clumsy, second-rate prizefighter.
- sturbridge — a town in central Massachusetts: reconstruction of early American village.
- 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-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
- subarcuate — fairly arched
- subarticle — an article that forms part of a larger or main article
- subcabinet — a group of advisers ranking below the cabinet level, chosen by a chief executive usually from members of the various executive departments.
- subcentral — near or almost to the center.
- subchapter — a subdivision especially of a body of laws.
- subcharter — to rent a chartered vehicle
- subchelate — having a claw with one pincer longer than the other
- subclavate — somewhat club-shaped.
- subcluster — a number of things of the same kind, growing or held together; a bunch: a cluster of grapes.
- subcordate — almost heart-shaped
- subculture — Bacteriology. to cultivate (a bacterial strain) again on a new medium.
- subcurrent — a not clearly revealed or formulated direction of thought, intention, action, etc., underlying what is manifested: His words, though ostensibly friendly, betrayed a subcurrent of hostility.
- subdialect — a division of a larger dialect
- subduement — the act or process of subduing
- subelement — a component or constituent of a whole or one of the parts into which a whole may be resolved by analysis: Bricks and mortar are elements of every masonry wall.
- subfertile — less than normally fertile