11-letter words containing b, i, r, t
- storability — capable of being stored for considerable time without loss of freshness or usability.
- stourbridge — an industrial town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 480 (2001)
- strike back — retaliate
- strike dumb — to amaze; astound; astonish
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- 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.
- subarration — an ancient way of marrying by giving a ring or gift
- subcortical — situated beneath the cortex.
- subcritical — Physics. pertaining to a state, value, or quantity that is less than critical, especially to a mass of radioactive material.
- subcurative — of a dosage which is not strong enough to have a curing effect
- subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
- subdistrict — a division of a district.
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- subindustry — a subdivision of an industry
- subinterval — an interval that is a subset of a given interval.
- subirrigate — to irrigate beneath the surface of the ground, as with water passing through a system of underground porous pipes or transmitted through the subsoil from ditches, etc.
- subliteracy — below average literacy
- subliterary — not intended as literature
- subliterate — less than fully literate.
- sublittoral — of or relating to the biogeographic region of the ocean bottom between the littoral and bathyal zones, from the low water line to the edge of the continental shelf, or to a depth of approximately 660 feet (200 meters).
- subminister — to supply
- subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- subornation — to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
- subrational — less than or almost rational.
- subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- subservient — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
- subterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
- subtractive — tending to subtract; having power to subtract.
- subtropical — bordering on the tropics; nearly tropical.
- suburbanite — a person who lives in a suburb of a city or large town.
- subvertical — being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
- subvitreous — of the nature of or resembling glass, as in transparency, brittleness, hardness, glossiness, etc.: vitreous china.
- sucker bait — an enticement calculated to lure a person into a scheme in which he or she may be victimized.
- sun bittern — a graceful South American wading bird, Eurypyga helias, related to the cranes and rails, having variegated plumage.
- superbright — exceptionally bright
- svarabhakti — the process of inserting vowel sounds into a consonant cluster, as in a loanword to make it conform to the pattern of the speaker's language and, hence, more easily pronounceable, as in the Italian pronunciation [lahn-tsee-ke-nek-kaw] /ˌlɑn tsi kɛˈnɛk kɔ/ (Show IPA) for German Landsknecht [lahnts-knekht] /ˈlɑntsˌknɛxt/ (Show IPA).
- sweet birch — a North American tree, Betula lenta, having smooth, blackish bark and twigs that are a source of methyl salicylate.
- switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
- taboparesis — the occurrence of two conditions (general paresis and tabes dorsalis) at the same time
- tabularised — to tabulate.
- tabularized — to tabulate.
- tamburlaine — Tamerlane.
- tarim basin — a region in W China between the Tien Shan and Kunlun mountain ranges. About 350,000 sq. mi. (906,000 sq. km).
- taurobolium — the sacrifice of a bull, followed by the baptism of neophytes in the blood, as practiced in the ancient rites of Mithras or Cybele.