11-letter words containing a, b, s
- saleability — subject to or suitable for sale; readily sold: The books were sent back by the store in salable condition.
- salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
- saltimbanco — a charlatan or fake
- saltimbocca — veal and ham wrapped together and sautéed in butter, often seasoned with sage.
- salvageable — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
- sample book — a number of pieces of fabric, wallpaper, etc fastened together at one edge, for people to examine when trying to choose which example to buy
- san gabriel — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- sandbagging — a bag filled with sand, used in fortification, as ballast, etc.
- saprobiotic — saprobic
- sash ribbon — a strip of steel or aluminum alloy for connecting a vertically sliding window sash with a counterweight.
- satiability — capable of being satiated.
- satirizable — able to be satirized or ridiculed
- satisfiable — to fulfill the desires, expectations, needs, or demands of (a person, the mind, etc.); give full contentment to: The hearty meal satisfied him.
- sauce bercy — Bercy.
- sauerbraten — a pot roast of beef, marinated before cooking in a mixture of vinegar, sugar, and seasonings.
- saul bellow — Saul, 1915–2005, U.S. novelist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize in Literature 1976.
- scabbedness — the state or condition of being scabbed; scabbiness
- scaberulous — tending to be scabrous or slightly rough to the touch
- scalability — the ability of something, esp a computer system, to adapt to increased demands
- scambaiting — the practice of pretending to fall for fraudulent online schemes in order to waste the time of the perpetrators
- scamblingly — in a scambling, noisy, or intrusive manner
- scarabaeist — a person who studies the beetle family Scarabaeidae
- scarabaeoid — resembling a scarab.
- scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
- schiff base — the product of the chemical association of an aldehyde with a primary amine
- scopophobia — the fear of being observed
- scratchback — an implement for scratching the back
- scribacious — having the tendency to write a lot or too much
- scrobicular — of or relating to the smooth areas on a sea urchin surrounding its nodules
- scuba diver — sb who dives underwater
- sea bathing — the activity of swimming in the sea
- sea biscuit — ship biscuit; hardtack.
- sea blubber — a large jellyfish, Cyanea capillata.
- sea cabbage — a brown alga, Hedophyllum sessile, of the North Pacific, characterized by a compact mass of fronds resembling a cabbage.
- sealed book — something beyond understanding and therefore unknown.
- sealed-beam — a headlight in which the reflector and lens are hermetically sealed together with the filament in a single unit.
- seam bowler — a fast bowler who makes the ball bounce on its seam so that it will change direction
- second base — the second in order of the bases from home plate.
- senate bill — a proposed new law introduced for debate before the upper chamber of the legislature in, for example, the US, Canada, Australia, etc
- sennacherib — died 681 b.c, king of Assyria 705–681.
- serbo-croat — Serbo-Croat is one of the languages spoken in the former Yugoslavia.
- serviceable — capable of or being of service; useful.
- shabbas goy — a gentile who performs tasks for Jews in the home or synagogue on the Sabbath or on a holy day that are forbidden Jews on such occasions, as turning on the lights or heat.
- shabby chic — Shabby Chic is a style of decorating the inside of a house in which the furniture and house look slightly used or old in a way that is attractive.
- shabu-shabu — a Japanese dish of thinly sliced meat and vegetables boiled quickly in broth and served with various dipping sauces.
- shacklebone — the wrist
- shaftesbury — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of, 1621–83, English statesman.
- sharpbender — an organization that has been underperforming its competitors but suddenly becomes more successful, often as a result of new management or changes in its business strategy
- shcherbakov — a former name (1946–57) of Andropov.
- shea butter — a solid, greenish, yellowish, or whitish fat derived from the seeds of the shea tree, used for food and in the manufacture of soaps and candles.