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13-letter words containing b, i, n, t

  • saint bernard — Great, a mountain pass between SW Switzerland and NW Italy, in the Pennine Alps: Napoleon led his army through it in 1800; location of a hospice. 8108 feet (2470 meters) high.
  • saint columba — Padraic [paw-drik] /ˈpɔ drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1881–1972, Irish poet and dramatist, in the U.S. from 1914.
  • saint-brieucs — a city in and the capital of the Côtes-du-Nord, in W France.
  • san cristobal — a city in SW Venezuela.
  • san sebastian — a seaport in N Spain: resort.
  • sanitary belt — a narrow belt, usually of elastic, for holding a sanitary napkin in place.
  • satanic abuse — sexual abuse (esp of children), killing, or violent acts considered to be carried out as part of satanic worship rituals
  • scythian lamb — a fern, Cibotium barometz, of southeastern Asia, having stalks covered with shaggy, brownish hair and large, feathery leaves, formerly believed to be a source of vegetable wool.
  • seasonability — fact of being seasonable
  • self-doubting — lacking in confidence
  • sensibilities — emotional, mental: responsiveness
  • sensible heat — Sensible heat is heat which is exchanged in an energy generation system, and which only affects the temperature of one or more substances.
  • sensible note — the major seventh note of any scale
  • sewing basket — box for sewing accessories
  • shot-blasting — the cleaning of metal, etc, by a stream of shot
  • shub-internet — /shuhb in't*r-net/ (MUD, from H. P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity "Shub-Niggurath", the Black Goat with a Thousand Young) The harsh personification of the Internet, Beast of a Thousand Processes, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise, and Imp of Call Waiting; the hideous multi-tendriled entity formed of all the manifold connections of the net. A sect of MUDders worships Shub-Internet, sacrificing objects and praying for good connections. To no avail - its purpose is malign and evil, and is the cause of all network slowdown. Often heard as in "Freela casts a tac nuke at Shub-Internet for slowing her down." (A forged response often follows along the lines of: "Shub-Internet gulps down the tac nuke and burps happily.") Also cursed by users of FTP and telnet when the system slows down. The dread name of Shub-Internet is seldom spoken aloud, as it is said that repeating it three times will cause the being to wake, deep within its lair beneath the Pentagon.
  • silent barter — dumb barter.
  • silent butler — a small receptacle having a handle and a hinged lid, used for collecting the contents of ashtrays, crumbs from a dinner table, etc., for disposal.
  • single combat — combat between two persons.
  • sinterability — the capacity to be sintered
  • siphon bottle — a bottle for aerated water, fitted with a bent tube through the neck, the water being forced out, when a valve is opened, by the pressure on its surface of the gas accumulating within the bottle.
  • skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
  • snap-brim hat — a hat brim that can be turned up or down.
  • sorbitization — the act of sorbitizing
  • south arabian — of or relating to the former South Arabia (now South Yemen) or its inhabitants
  • speaking tube — a tube for conveying the voice over a somewhat limited distance, as from one part of a building or ship to another.
  • spiny lobster — any of several edible crustaceans of the family Palinuridae, differing from the true lobsters in having a spiny shell and lacking the large pincers.
  • spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
  • stabilization — the act or process of stabilizing or the state of being stabilized.
  • stamen blight — a disease of blackberries, characterized by a gray, powdery mass of spores covering the anthers, caused by a fungus, Hapalosphaeria deformans.
  • station break — an interval between or during programs for identifying the station, making announcements, etc.
  • steam turbine — a turbine driven by steam pressure.
  • sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
  • stingless bee — any of certain social, honey-producing tropical bees of the family Apidae, as of the genus Melipona, having a nonfunctional stinger.
  • stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
  • stone boiling — a primitive method of boiling liquid with heated stones
  • string bikini — a skimpy bikini having often a triangular covering part held in place by narrow, string-like ties
  • stringer bead — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
  • styling brush — a hairbrush used to style or neaten hair
  • sub-questions — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
  • suballocation — an allocation made from a previous allocation
  • subastringent — slightly astringent.
  • subbituminous — (of coal) dark brown to black and intermediate in rank between lignite and bituminous
  • subcinctorium — an embroidered silk vestment resembling, but somewhat broader than, a maniple, worn by the pope on solemn occasions.
  • subcollection — the act of collecting.
  • subcontiguous — almost touching; nearly contiguous.
  • subcontinuous — almost but not quite continuous
  • subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
  • subgeneration — a generation within another generation
  • subindication — the act or process of subindicating
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