11-letter words containing b, i, s, n
- 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-captain — a person who is at the head of or in authority over others; chief; leader.
- sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- sub-heading — a title or heading of a subdivision, as in a chapter, essay, or newspaper article.
- suballiance — a suborder or subdivision of an alliance
- subarration — an ancient way of marrying by giving a ring or gift
- subaudition — an act or instance of understanding or mentally supplying something not expressed.
- subcardinal — (of veins) next to the cardinal veins
- subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
- subclinical — pertaining to an early stage of a disease; having no noticeable clinical symptoms.
- subdecision — a decision secondary to a main decision
- subdiaconal — of or relating to a subdeacon.
- subdivision — the act or fact of subdividing.
- subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
- subeconomic — pertaining to the production, distribution, and use of income, wealth, and commodities.
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- subfreezing — below the freezing point.
- subgingival — being or occurring under the gums; especially, being or occurring in the crevice between the gum margin and the neck or root of a tooth.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- subimaginal — of or relating to subimago
- subincision — the slitting of the underside of the penis to the urethra, performed as a puberty rite among some tribal peoples, especially in Australia.
- subindicate — to indirectly indicate or hint
- subindustry — a subdivision of an industry
- 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.
- subitaneous — sudden
- subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
- subjunction — an act of subjoining.
- subjunctive — (in English and certain other languages) noting or pertaining to a mood or mode of the verb that may be used for subjective, doubtful, hypothetical, or grammatically subordinate statements or questions, as the mood of be in if this be treason. Compare imperative (def 3), indicative (def 2).
- sublicensee — a person, company, etc., to whom a sublicense is granted.
- sublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- sublimeness — the state or quality of being sublime
- subluxation — a partial dislocation, as of a joint; sprain.
- submarginal — Biology. near the margin.
- submarining — a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under water, usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.
- subminister — to supply
- submissness — submissiveness
- submunition — a weapon forming part of a larger warhead and released from it at a target
- subnational — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
- subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
- subordinary — any of several heraldic bearings of secondary importance to the ordinary, such as the lozenge, the orle, and the fret
- 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.
- subpanation — the belief that the body and blood of Christ are present in the bread and wine of Communion
- subpoenaing — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- subrational — less than or almost rational.
- subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- subscribing — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
- subsensible — unable to be detected by the senses