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10-letter words containing w, b, s

  • broadsword — a broad-bladed sword used for cutting rather than stabbing
  • brown eyes — eyes with brown irises
  • brown nose — a form of light sensitization in cattle
  • brown spot — a disease of many plants, characterized by irregular, brownish lesions on the fruit and foliage and by stem cankers, caused by any of several fungi, as Ceratophorum setosum or Cephalosporium apii.
  • brown-nose — to curry favor; behave obsequiously.
  • brownnoser — a person who brownnoses
  • brownshirt — Nazi stormtrooper
  • brownstone — In the United States, a brownstone is a type of house which was built during the 19th century. Brownstones have a front that is made from a reddish-brown stone.
  • brushwheel — a toothless wheel with bristles attached to its circumference, used to turn another wheel by friction
  • bundeswehr — the armed forces of Germany.
  • bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
  • cobwebsite — (jargon, web)   A website that hasn't been updated for a long time. A dead web page.
  • cosmic web — a network of filaments of dark matter, believed by many astronomers to form the basis of the universe
  • cowberries — Plural form of cowberry.
  • deathblows — Plural form of deathblow.
  • dewberries — Plural form of dewberry.
  • disembowel — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
  • downblouse — Describing a voyeuristic image of the view down a woman's cleavage.
  • downbursts — Plural form of downburst.
  • elbow-rest — something designed for resting one's elbow on
  • flowerbeds — Plural form of flowerbed.
  • grub screw — headless metal bolt
  • hashbrowns — Alternative spelling of hash browns.
  • hawksbills — Plural form of hawksbill.
  • jobsworths — Plural form of jobsworth.
  • lay sb low — If a disease or illness lays you low, it makes you weak or ill.
  • lewis base — any substance capable of forming a covalent bond with an acid by transferring a pair of electrons to it.
  • lewis bolt — an anchor bolt having a conical base around which concrete or lead is poured to hold it.
  • mars brown — a medium brown color.
  • microbrews — Plural form of microbrew.
  • newsbreaks — Plural form of newsbreak.
  • overbrowse — to browse on (vegetation, land, etc) excessively, in a damaging way; overgraze
  • power base — a source of authority or influence, especially in politics, founded on support by an organized body of voters, ethnic minority, economic class, etc.: His election as governor gives him a power base for seeking the presidency.
  • renewables — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
  • salad bowl — a large bowl in which a salad, especially a tossed salad, is served.
  • screw bean — a tree, Prosopis pubescens, of the legume family, native to the southwestern U.S., bearing twisted pods used as fodder.
  • scrub fowl — megapode.
  • scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
  • seal brown — a rich, dark brown suggestive of dressed and dyed sealskin.
  • sewability — the ability to be sewn or stitched
  • sewing bee — a small informal social gathering (usually of women) based around the activity of making or mending clothes or other things with a needle and thread
  • shadow box — a shallow, rectangular frame fronted with a glass panel, used to show and at the same time protect items on display, as paintings, coins, or jewelry.
  • shadow-box — a shallow, rectangular frame fronted with a glass panel, used to show and at the same time protect items on display, as paintings, coins, or jewelry.
  • showboater — a boat, especially a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.
  • shrewsbury — a city now part of Shrewsbury and Atcham, in Salop, in W England.
  • snow board — a board serving as a snow guard.
  • snow buggy — a vehicle designed for travelling over snow, often fitted with very large tyres or caterpillar tracks
  • snow bunny — a devotee of winter sports
  • snow-blind — the usually temporary dimming of the sight caused by the glare of reflected sunlight on snow.
  • snow-broth — melted snow.
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