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11-letter words containing b, e, l, s

  • silver bass — white bass.
  • silver beet — a variety of beet, Beta vulgaris cicla, having large firm green leaves: staple cooked green vegetable in Australia and New Zealand
  • silver bell — any North American shrub or small tree belonging to the genus Halesia, of the storax family, having toothed leaves and drooping white, bell-shaped flowers.
  • silver book — (publication)   Jensen and Wirth's infamous "Pascal User Manual and Report", so called because of the silver cover of the widely distributed Springer-Verlag second edition of 1978 (ISBN 0-387-90144-2). See also book titles, Pascal.
  • silverberry — a shrub, Elaeagnus commutata (or E. argentea), of north-central North America, having silvery leaves and flowers and silvery, drupelike edible fruit.
  • single bond — a chemical linkage consisting of one covalent bond between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by one line or two vertical dots, as C–H or C:H.
  • 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.
  • slack-baked — improperly baked.
  • 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.
  • sleigh bell — any of several kinds of small bells, as a jingle bell, attached to a sleigh or to the harness of the animal drawing the sleigh.
  • slop bucket — slop pail.
  • slumberland — an imaginary land described to children as the place they enter during sleep.
  • slumberless — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
  • slumbersome — tired; sleepy
  • smell blood — sense a chance for victory
  • snack table — a small portable folding table used for an individual serving.
  • snakeblenny — any of several pricklebacks of the genus Lumpenus.
  • 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.
  • snow blower — a motor-driven machine on wheels used to remove snow by throwing it into the air and to one side.
  • snowmobiler — a person who drives a snowmobile
  • soap boiler — a manufacturer of soap
  • soap bubble — a bubble of soapsuds.
  • soap-bubble — a bubble of soapsuds.
  • soft-boiled — to boil (an egg) just long enough for the yolk and white to partially solidify, usually three or four minutes.
  • soil binder — a plant that prevents or inhibits erosion by providing a ground cover and forming a dense network of roots that hold the soil.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • specifiable — that can be specified.
  • spellbinder — a person or thing that spellbinds, especially a powerful speaker who can captivate an audience.
  • spin bowler — a bowler who specializes in bowling balls with a spinning motion
  • spinel ruby — ruby spinel.
  • splint bone — one of the rudimentary, splintlike metacarpal or metatarsal bones of the horse or some allied animal, one on each side of the back of each cannon bone.
  • st.-lambert — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, across from Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • steeplebush — the hardhack.
  • stepsibling — a stepbrother or stepsister.
  • stereoblind — lacking the ability to see in three dimensions through both eyes
  • 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.
  • stilbestrol — a nonsteroidal synthetic estrogen, C 18 H 20 O 2 , used in medicine chiefly in the treatment of menopausal symptoms and in animal feeds for chemical caponization: formerly used during pregnancy for the prevention of miscarriage but discontinued owing to its association with an increased risk of vaginal and cervical cancers in women having had fetal exposure. Abbreviation: DES.
  • stobie pole — a steel and concrete pole for supporting electricity wires
  • stone-blind — completely blind.
  • stress ball — a small rubber ball squeezed in the hand as a means of relieving stress
  • 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-clauses — Grammar. a syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence.
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