10-letter words containing a, b, u, r, s
- pasturable — capable of providing pasture, as land.
- presumable — capable of being taken for granted; probable.
- presumably — by assuming reasonably; probably: Since he is a consistent winner, he is presumably a superior player.
- purse crab — coconut crab.
- quebrachos — Plural form of quebracho.
- ramboesque — looking or behaving like, or characteristic of, Rambo, a fictional film character noted for his mindless brutality
- reissuable — (of notes, bills, money, etc) able to be reissued
- rouseabout — an unskilled labourer in a shearing shed
- roustabout — a wharf laborer or deck hand, as on the Mississippi River.
- rubiaceous — belonging to the Rubiaceae, the madder family of plants.
- ruby glass — glass having a red color resulting from the addition of gold, copper, or selenium to the batch.
- ruby laser — a solid-state, pulsed laser that uses a ruby crystal to produce a very strong beam of red coherent light, used in making holographs and in cosmetic instruments.
- saintsbury — George Edward Bateman [beyt-muh n] /ˈbeɪt mən/ (Show IPA), 1845–1933, English literary critic and historian.
- salubrious — favorable to or promoting health; healthful: salubrious air.
- scarabaeus — scarab (defs 2, 3).
- schaumburg — a city in NE Illinois.
- 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.
- scum-board — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- seaborgium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Sg; atomic number: 106.
- sharpsburg — a town in NW Maryland: nearby is the site of the Civil War battle of Antietam 1862.
- soubresaut — a jump performed with the legs held together and the body erect but slightly curved to the side.
- soundboard — sounding board.
- squabasher — a person who squabashes someone or something
- status bar — a row at the bottom of a window that displays information about the window, as the status of a web page load or details of an open document.
- strabismus — a disorder of vision due to a deviation from normal orientation of one or both eyes so that both cannot be directed at the same object at the same time; squint; crossed eyes.
- strasbourg — a department in NE France. 1848 sq. mi. (4785 sq. km). Capital: Strasbourg.
- strassburg — a city in NE France, on the Rhine: the chief French inland port; under German rule (1870–1918); university (1567); seat of the Council of Europe and of the European Parliament. Pop: 264 115 (1999)
- studebaker — Clement, 1831–1901, U.S. wagon maker and pioneer automobile designer.
- sub-branch — a further branch or division of something within an already established branch or division
- sub-leader — a person or thing that leads.
- sub-reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- subangular — fairly angular
- subarcuate — fairly arched
- subarticle — an article that forms part of a larger or main article
- subaverage — a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean: Her golf average is in the 90s. My average in science has gone from B to C this semester.
- 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.
- subcentral — near or almost to the center.
- subchapter — a subdivision especially of a body of laws.
- subcharter — to rent a chartered vehicle
- subcordate — almost heart-shaped
- subcranial — of the area beneath the cranium or skull
- subcrustal — situated or occurring below the crust of the earth.
- subdeanery — the position or office of a subdean
- subintrant — having attacks or fits one after the other
- subjugator — to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master.