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11-letter words containing a, d, b, s

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • smorgasbord — a buffet meal of various hot and cold hors d'oeuvres, salads, casserole dishes, meats, cheeses, etc.
  • snowblading — the activity or sport of skiing with short skis (snowblades) and no poles
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • springboard — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • st. bernard — St. Bernard (def 3).
  • stable door — a door with an upper and lower leaf that may be opened separately
  • store brand — an item offered for sale under a store's own label.
  • string band — a band consisting of stringed instruments
  • stringboard — a board or facing covering the ends of the steps in a staircase.
  • sub-heading — a title or heading of a subdivision, as in a chapter, essay, or newspaper article.
  • 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.
  • subaudition — an act or instance of understanding or mentally supplying something not expressed.
  • subcardinal — (of veins) next to the cardinal veins
  • subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
  • subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
  • subdermally — in, located, or placed in a subdermal manner
  • subdiaconal — of or relating to a subdeacon.
  • subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
  • subindicate — to indirectly indicate or hint
  • subjudicial — pertaining to judgment in courts of justice or to the administration of justice: judicial proceedings; the judicial system.
  • subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
  • subordinary — any of several heraldic bearings of secondary importance to the ordinary, such as the lozenge, the orle, and the fret
  • subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • substandard — below standard or less than adequate: substandard housing conditions.
  • sunday baby — an illegitimate child.
  • sunday best — Sunday clothes.
  • superabound — to abound beyond something else.
  • surtarbrand — deposits of brown coal embedded in Iceland lava
  • swear blind — to assert emphatically
  • sweat blood — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
  • sweetlambda — Sugared lambda-calculus(?).
  • switchblade — a pocketknife, the blade of which is held by a spring and can be released suddenly, as by pressing a button.
  • switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
  • swordbearer — an official who carries the sword of state on ceremonial occasions, as before the sovereign, a magistrate, or the like.
  • tabularised — to tabulate.
  • tidal basin — an artificial body of water open to a river, stream, etc., subject to tidal action.
  • transborder — the part or edge of a surface or area that forms its outer boundary.
  • troubadours — one of a class of medieval lyric poets who flourished principally in southern France from the 11th to 13th centuries, and wrote songs and poems of a complex metrical form in langue d'oc, chiefly on themes of courtly love. Compare trouvère.
  • unabashedly — not ashamed, disconcerted, or apologetic; boldly certain of one's position.
  • unabolished — not abolished or revoked
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