11-letter words containing a, b, s
- ship's boat — a boat for communication between ship and shore
- shish kebab — meat on skewer
- shish-kebab — to broil or roast food on a skewer.
- shopbreaker — a robber who breaks into a shop
- shovel beak — a deformity of the beak in intensively reared chicks
- shovelboard — the game of shuffleboard.
- sibuyan sea — a sea in the Philippines S of Luzon and E of Mindanao: site of U.S.-Japan naval battle 1944.
- signal book — a book containing the signals to be used for sending messages to other boats
- silver bass — white bass.
- singability — to utter words or sounds in succession with musical modulations of the voice; vocalize melodically.
- singles bar — a bar or tavern catering to a clientele composed chiefly of single men and women, especially those seeking a lover or spouse.
- skatemobile — a scooterlike vehicle built of boxes, boards, or the like, and mounted on skate wheels.
- skidbladnir — the huge collapsible ship, made by two dwarfs for Frey, that always had a favoring wind.
- slack-baked — improperly baked.
- slant board — a tiltable board that allows a person to lie with the feet higher than the head while doing exercises.
- slate black — a slightly purplish black.
- slave labor — persons, especially a large group, performing labor under duress or threats, as prisoners in a concentration camp; a labor force of slaves or slavelike prisoners.
- sleeveboard — a small-scale ironing board for pressing sleeves, especially a narrow board that fits inside a coat sleeve.
- slumberland — an imaginary land described to children as the place they enter during sleep.
- smokey bear — an officer or officers of a state highway patrol.
- smoking ban — the prohibition of smoking cigarettes, etc in public places
- smorgasbord — a buffet meal of various hot and cold hors d'oeuvres, salads, casserole dishes, meats, cheeses, etc.
- snack table — a small portable folding table used for an individual serving.
- snakeblenny — any of several pricklebacks of the genus Lumpenus.
- snapperback — the center on the offensive team.
- snob appeal — the attributes of something that appeal to people who associate those qualities with social or intellectual superiority; a thing's attractiveness to snobs.
- snobography — an account or description of snobs
- snow banner — snow being blown off a mountaintop.
- snowballing — a ball of snow pressed or rolled together, as for throwing.
- snowblading — the activity or sport of skiing with short skis (snowblades) and no poles
- soap boiler — a manufacturer of soap
- soap bubble — a bubble of soapsuds.
- soap-bubble — a bubble of soapsuds.
- sociability — the act or an instance of being sociable.
- social club — A social club is a club where members go in order to meet each other and enjoy leisure activities.
- sock cymbal — high-hat
- soluble rna — a small RNA molecule, consisting of a strand of nucleotides folded into a clover-leaf shape, that picks up an unattached amino acid within the cell cytoplasm and conveys it to the ribosome for protein synthesis. Abbreviation: tRNA.
- solvability — capable of being solved, as a problem.
- somnambular — relating to sleep-walking
- sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
- sorbability — the ability of something to absorb
- sorbic acid — a white, crystalline compound, C 6 H 8 O 2 , slightly soluble in water, soluble in many organic solvents: used as a preservative in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and food.
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
- soybean oil — a pale-yellow oil derived from soybeans by expression or solvent extraction: used as a food and in the manufacture of soap, candles, inks, paints, varnishes, etc.
- space probe — Aerospace. an unmanned spacecraft designed to explore the solar system and transmit data back to earth.
- spartanburg — a city in NW South Carolina.
- specifiable — that can be specified.
- speed brake — a flap on an aircraft wing used to decrease speed in flight in preparation for landing.
- spider crab — any of various crabs of the family Majidae, having long, slender legs and a comparatively small, triangular body.
- splashboard — a board, guard, or screen to protect from splashing, as a dashboard of a vehicle or a guard placed over a wheel to intercept water, dirt, etc.