11-letter words containing b, i, s, n
- sandbagging — a bag filled with sand, used in fortification, as ballast, etc.
- sash ribbon — a strip of steel or aluminum alloy for connecting a vertically sliding window sash with a counterweight.
- scambaiting — the practice of pretending to fall for fraudulent online schemes in order to waste the time of the perpetrators
- scamblingly — in a scambling, noisy, or intrusive manner
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- scotophobin — a peptide isolated from the brains of rats conditioned to avoid darkness, alleged to induce a dark-avoidance response in untrained rats, mice, and other animals.
- sea bathing — the activity of swimming in the sea
- self-binder — binder (def 5b).
- senate bill — a proposed new law introduced for debate before the upper chamber of the legislature in, for example, the US, Canada, Australia, etc
- sennacherib — died 681 b.c, king of Assyria 705–681.
- sensibility — capacity for sensation or feeling; responsiveness or susceptibility to sensory stimuli.
- sibuyan sea — a sea in the Philippines S of Luzon and E of Mindanao: site of U.S.-Japan naval battle 1944.
- signal book — a book containing the signals to be used for sending messages to other boats
- singability — to utter words or sounds in succession with musical modulations of the voice; vocalize melodically.
- 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.
- ski binding — an device on a ski used to attach it to a ski boot
- skidbladnir — the huge collapsible ship, made by two dwarfs for Frey, that always had a favoring wind.
- skinner box — a box used in experiments in animal learning, especially in operant conditioning, equipped with a mechanism that automatically gives the animal food or other reward or permits escape, as by opening a door.
- smoking ban — the prohibition of smoking cigarettes, etc in public places
- snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
- snowballing — a ball of snow pressed or rolled together, as for throwing.
- snowblading — the activity or sport of skiing with short skis (snowblades) and no poles
- snowmobiler — a person who drives a snowmobile
- 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.
- soil boring — Soil boring is a technique used to survey soil by taking several shallow cores out of the sediment. It is used when a drilling jacket or jack-up rig is to be supported on the soil.
- sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
- 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.
- 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.
- spitsbergen — a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean, N of and belonging to Norway. 24,293 sq. mi. (62,920 sq. km).
- spitzbergen — a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean, N of and belonging to Norway. 24,293 sq. mi. (62,920 sq. km).
- spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
- 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.
- split brain — having, involving, or pertaining to a severed corpus callosum.
- split-brain — having, involving, or pertaining to a severed corpus callosum.
- spring lamb — a lamb born in the late winter or early spring and sold for slaughter before July 1.
- springboard — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- stabilizing — to make or hold stable, firm, or steadfast.
- stenobathic — of or relating to marine or freshwater life that can tolerate only limited changes in depth (opposed to eurybathic).
- stepsibling — a stepbrother or stepsister.
- stereoblind — lacking the ability to see in three dimensions through both eyes
- sternotribe — (of a flower) having contact with the sternum of an insect
- stone-blind — completely blind.
- 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.