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11-letter words containing a, b, s

  • split brain — having, involving, or pertaining to a severed corpus callosum.
  • split-brain — having, involving, or pertaining to a severed corpus callosum.
  • sponge bath — a bath in which the bather is cleaned by a wet sponge or washcloth dipped in water, without getting into a tub of water.
  • spoon bread — Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a baked dish made with cornmeal, milk, eggs, and shortening, served as an accompaniment to meat.
  • spring lamb — a lamb born in the late winter or early spring and sold for slaughter before July 1.
  • springboard — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • sprite crab — ghost crab.
  • st. bernard — St. Bernard (def 3).
  • st.-lambert — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, across from Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
  • stabilizing — to make or hold stable, firm, or steadfast.
  • stable door — a door with an upper and lower leaf that may be opened separately
  • stable girl — a girl or woman who looks after or attends horses in stables
  • stag beetle — any of numerous lamellicorn beetles of the family Lucanidae, some of the males of which have mandibles resembling the antlers of a stag.
  • stage brace — a brace for supporting upright pieces of theatrical scenery.
  • staggerbush — an ericaceous deciduous shrub, Lyonia mariana, of E North America, having white or pinkish flowers: it is poisonous to livestock
  • stamp album — a book used by collectors of postage stamps to display and store their stamps
  • statcoulomb — the electrostatic unit of a quantity of electricity, equivalent to 3.3356 × 10 −10 coulomb and equal to the quantity of charge transferred in one second across a conductor in which there is a constant current of one statampere.
  • 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.
  • steam table — a boxlike table or counter, usually of stainless steel, with receptacles in the top into which containers of food may be fitted to be kept warm by steam or hot water in the compartment below.
  • 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.
  • stoop labor — the physical labor associated with the cultivation or picking of crops in farm fields, especially as performed by poorly paid, unskilled workers.
  • storability — capable of being stored for considerable time without loss of freshness or usability.
  • store brand — an item offered for sale under a store's own label.
  • street arab — a person, especially a child, who lives a homeless, vagabond life on the streets; urchin.
  • stress ball — a small rubber ball squeezed in the hand as a means of relieving stress
  • 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-charter — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
  • sub-clauses — Grammar. a syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence.
  • sub-company — subsidiary company.
  • sub-fascial — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
  • sub-heading — a title or heading of a subdivision, as in a chapter, essay, or newspaper article.
  • sub-manager — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
  • sub-optimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
  • sub-saharan — of, relating to, or in Africa south of the Sahara Desert: a sub-Saharan country; sub-Saharan peoples.
  • sub-surface — below the surface, especially of a body of water.
  • subacromial — the outward end of the spine of the scapula or shoulder blade.
  • 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.
  • subadjacent — lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the highway.
  • subaerially — in a subaerial manner
  • subaffluent — between poor and affluent
  • suballiance — a suborder or subdivision of an alliance
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