11-letter words containing a, b, s, i, t
- scarabaeist — a person who studies the beetle family Scarabaeidae
- sea bathing — the activity of swimming in the sea
- sea biscuit — ship biscuit; hardtack.
- senate bill — a proposed new law introduced for debate before the upper chamber of the legislature in, for example, the US, Canada, Australia, etc
- ship's boat — a boat for communication between ship and shore
- singability — to utter words or sounds in succession with musical modulations of the voice; vocalize melodically.
- skatemobile — a scooterlike vehicle built of boxes, boards, or the like, and mounted on skate wheels.
- sociability — the act or an instance of being sociable.
- solvability — capable of being solved, as a problem.
- sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
- sorbability — the ability of something to absorb
- split brain — having, involving, or pertaining to a severed corpus callosum.
- split-brain — having, involving, or pertaining to a severed corpus callosum.
- sprite crab — ghost crab.
- stabilizing — to make or hold stable, firm, or steadfast.
- stable girl — a girl or woman who looks after or attends horses in stables
- static tube — a tube for measuring the static pressure of a fluid in motion, so placed in the fluid as not to be affected by the pressure changes caused by the motion of the fluid.
- stenobathic — of or relating to marine or freshwater life that can tolerate only limited changes in depth (opposed to eurybathic).
- stereobatic — relating to or resembling a stereobate
- stickleback — any of the small, pugnacious, spiny-backed fishes of the family Gasterosteidae, inhabiting northern fresh waters and sea inlets, the male of which builds and guards the nest.
- storability — capable of being stored for considerable time without loss of freshness or usability.
- strike back — retaliate
- string band — a band consisting of stringed instruments
- string bass — double bass.
- string bean — any of various kinds of bean, as the green bean, the unripe pods of which are used as food, usually after stripping off the fibrous thread along the side.
- stringboard — a board or facing covering the ends of the steps in a staircase.
- strombolian — relating to or denoting a type of volcanic eruption characterized by repeated fountaining or jetting of fluid lava into the air
- sub-article — a written composition in prose, usually nonfiction, on a specific topic, forming an independent part of a book or other publication, as a newspaper or magazine.
- sub-captain — a person who is at the head of or in authority over others; chief; leader.
- sub-optimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
- subadditive — something that is added, as one substance to another, to alter or improve the general quality or to counteract undesirable properties: an additive that thins paint.
- subarration — an ancient way of marrying by giving a ring or gift
- subaudition — an act or instance of understanding or mentally supplying something not expressed.
- subcortical — situated beneath the cortex.
- subcritical — Physics. pertaining to a state, value, or quantity that is less than critical, especially to a mass of radioactive material.
- subcurative — of a dosage which is not strong enough to have a curing effect
- subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- subindicate — to indirectly indicate or hint
- subinterval — an interval that is a subset of a given interval.
- subirrigate — to irrigate beneath the surface of the ground, as with water passing through a system of underground porous pipes or transmitted through the subsoil from ditches, etc.
- subitaneous — sudden
- subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
- sublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- subliteracy — below average literacy
- subliterary — not intended as literature
- subliterate — less than fully literate.
- sublittoral — of or relating to the biogeographic region of the ocean bottom between the littoral and bathyal zones, from the low water line to the edge of the continental shelf, or to a depth of approximately 660 feet (200 meters).
- subluxation — a partial dislocation, as of a joint; sprain.
- submetallic — somewhat or imperfectly metallic.