10-letter words containing w, e, b
- overbrowse — to browse on (vegetation, land, etc) excessively, in a damaging way; overgraze
- oxbow lake — a U -shaped piece of wood placed under and around the neck of an ox with its upper ends in the bar of the yoke.
- oxbow-lake — a U -shaped piece of wood placed under and around the neck of an ox with its upper ends in the bar of the yoke.
- pawnbroker — a person whose business is lending money at interest on personal, movable property deposited with the lender until redeemed.
- peach-blow — a delicate purplish pink.
- powder boy — powder monkey (def 1).
- 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.
- reviewable — Reviewable premiums or payments are not guaranteed and may be increased or decreased.
- rewardable — a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
- rewritable — A rewritable CD or DVD is a CD or DVD that you can record onto more than once. Compare recordable.
- rowanberry — a mountain ash tree
- rubber jaw — a condition in which the mandible becomes demineralized and excessively mobile in animals with advanced renal disease
- rubberwear — clothing made of rubber
- rubblework — masonry built of rubble or roughly dressed stones.
- screw bean — a tree, Prosopis pubescens, of the legume family, native to the southwestern U.S., bearing twisted pods used as fodder.
- 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
- 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.
- snowblades — a type of skis, about half the length of normal downhill skis and used without poles
- snowblower — a motor-driven machine on wheels used to remove snow by throwing it into the air and to one side.
- snowmobile — Also called skimobile, snowcat. a motor vehicle with a revolving tread in the rear and steerable skis in the front, for traveling over snow.
- spider web — the web that is spun by a spider, made of interlaced threads of viscous fluid that harden on exposure to air.
- strawberry — the fruit of any stemless plant belonging to the genus Fragaria, of the rose family, consisting of an enlarged fleshy receptacle bearing achenes on its exterior.
- super bowl — the annual championship football game between the best team of the National Football Conference and that of the American Football Conference.
- swaybacked — having the back sagged to an unusual degree; having a sway-back.
- 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.
- switchable — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- 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.
- table wine — a wine that contains not more than 14 percent alcohol and is usually served as an accompaniment to food.
- take a bow — to bend the knee or body or incline the head, as in reverence, submission, salutation, recognition, or acknowledgment.
- tewkesbury — a town in N Gloucestershire, in W England: final defeat of the Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses 1471.
- the bowery — a street in New York City noted for its cheap hotels and bars, frequented by vagrants and drunks
- thimblewit — a silly or dimwitted person; dunce
- thumbscrew — a screw, the head of which is so constructed that it may be turned easily with the thumb and a finger.
- thumbwheel — a small, partially exposed wheel that can be turned with a thumb or finger and is found on various devices such as computers or instruments
- timberwork — structural work formed of timbers.
- tower bolt — barrel bolt.
- trowbridge — a market town in SW England, administrative centre of Wiltshire: woollen manufacturing. Pop: 34 401 (2001)
- tumbledown — dilapidated; ruined; rundown: He lived in a tumble-down shack.
- tumbleweed — any of various plants, as Amaranthus albus, A. graecizans, or the Russian thistle, Salsola kali, whose branching upper parts become detached from the roots and are driven about by the wind.
- twice-born — Hinduism. of or relating to members of the Indian castes of Brahmins, Kshatriyas, and Vaisyas, who undergo a spiritual rebirth and initiation in adolescence.
- twig borer — any of several beetles, beetle larvae, or moth larvae that bore into the twigs of plants.
- two-bagger — two-base hit.