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

  • rose beetle — rose chafer.
  • rotor blade — one airfoil of the rotor of a rotary-wing aircraft.
  • round table — conference, meeting
  • round-table — noting or pertaining to a conference, discussion, or deliberation in which each participant has equal status, equal time to present views, etc.: round-table discussions.
  • rove beetle — any of numerous beetles of the family Staphylinidae, having a slender, elongated body and very short front wings, and capable of running swiftly.
  • rumble seat — Also called, British, dickey. a seat recessed into the back of a coupe or roadster, covered by a hinged lid that opens to form the back of the seat when in use.
  • safety belt — seat belt.
  • safety bolt — a bolt or lock on a door or gate that cannot be moved from the outside
  • saleability — subject to or suitable for sale; readily sold: The books were sent back by the store in salable condition.
  • 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.
  • scuttlebutt — Nautical. an open cask of drinking water. a drinking fountain for use by the crew of a vessel.
  • seed beetle — any of several beetles of the family Bruchidae that infest the seeds of legumes.
  • senate bill — a proposed new law introduced for debate before the upper chamber of the legislature in, for example, the US, Canada, Australia, etc
  • sensibility — capacity for sensation or feeling; responsiveness or susceptibility to sensory stimuli.
  • shelterbelt — a row of trees providing shelter from the wind
  • shuttle bus — a bus that travels regularly between two places
  • silver beet — a variety of beet, Beta vulgaris cicla, having large firm green leaves: staple cooked green vegetable in Australia and New Zealand
  • skatemobile — a scooterlike vehicle built of boxes, boards, or the like, and mounted on skate wheels.
  • slate black — a slightly purplish black.
  • slop bucket — slop pail.
  • snack table — a small portable folding table used for an individual serving.
  • soft-boiled — to boil (an egg) just long enough for the yolk and white to partially solidify, usually three or four minutes.
  • 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-culture — Bacteriology. to cultivate (a bacterial strain) again on a new medium.
  • subaffluent — between poor and affluent
  • subcultured — Bacteriology. to cultivate (a bacterial strain) again on a new medium.
  • subinfluent — an organism that has a lesser effect than an influent on the ecological processes within a community.
  • subinterval — an interval that is a subset of a given interval.
  • subjectable — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
  • subjectless — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
  • sublethally — in a sublethal manner
  • subliteracy — below average literacy
  • subliterary — not intended as literature
  • subliterate — less than fully literate.
  • submetallic — somewhat or imperfectly metallic.
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