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13-letter words containing b, o, e, r, s

  • she-crab soup — a thick, bisquelike soup made with the meat and eggs of the female crab.
  • short subject — a short film, as a documentary or travelogue, shown as part of a program with a feature-length film.
  • 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.
  • skilled labor — labor that requires special training for its satisfactory performance.
  • smoke chamber — an enlarged area between the throat of a fireplace and the chimney flue.
  • smoked rubber — a type of crude natural rubber in the form of brown sheets obtained by coagulating latex with an acid, rolling it into sheets, and drying over open wood fires. It is the main raw material for natural rubber products
  • snowball tree — any of several caprifoliaceous shrubs of the genus Viburnum, esp V. opulus var. roseum, a sterile cultivated variety with spherical clusters of white or pinkish flowers
  • soapbox derby — a race between children in homemade racing carts
  • sodium borate — borax1 .
  • solar battery — an array of solar cells, used as a source of electrical power.
  • solderability — the characteristic of being solderable
  • sonic barrier — sound barrier.
  • sound barrier — Also called sonic barrier, transonic barrier. (not in technical use) a hypothetical barrier to flight beyond the speed of sound, so postulated because aircraft undergo an abruptly increasing drag force induced by compression of the surrounding air when traveling near the speed of sound.
  • sound blaster — (hardware)   The best known family of sound cards for the IBM PC from Creative Labs.
  • southern blot — a procedure for identifying and measuring the amount of a specific DNA sequence or gene in a mixed extract, as in testing for a mutation or a virus: DNA strands from the person or organism under study are cut with restriction enzymes, separated by gel electrophoresis, transferred to special filter paper, and hybridized with a labeled DNA probe.
  • spermatoblast — a reproductive cell
  • 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.
  • sponge rubber — a light, spongy rubber, usually prepared by bubbling carbon dioxide through or whipping air into latex, used for padding, insulation, gaskets, etc.; foam rubber.
  • springboarded — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • station break — an interval between or during programs for identifying the station, making announcements, etc.
  • step aerobics — a set of aerobic exercises designed to improve the cardiovascular system, which consists of stepping on and off a special box of adjustable height
  • sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
  • stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
  • stone bramble — a herbaceous Eurasian rosaceous plant, Rubus saxatilis, of stony places, having white flowers and berry-like scarlet fruits (drupelets)
  • store baggage — If a hotel stores baggage, it puts a guest's baggage in a storage room until it is needed by the guest.
  • streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
  • strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
  • strong breeze — a wind of 25–30 miles per hour (11–13 m/sec).
  • sub-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
  • subcategorize — to split into subcategories
  • subcoriaceous — almost leathery
  • subeditorship — the position or office of a subeditor
  • subequatorial — of, relating to, or being a region near the equatorial region.
  • subgeneration — a generation within another generation
  • subgovernment — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • sublime porte — official name of Porte.
  • subordinative — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • subperiosteal — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
  • subprime loan — A subprime loan is a loan with a higher interest rate, to borrowers who are a high credit risk.
  • subterraneous — existing, situated, or operating below the surface of the earth; underground.
  • superlobbyist — someone who lobbies on behalf of another
  • swedenborgian — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
  • sword bayonet — a short sword that may be attached to the muzzle of a gun and used as a bayonet.
  • take by storm — be a sudden success
  • the gas board — any company supplying gas as a source of domestic and industrial heat
  • thrombokinase — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
  • to be precise — You say 'to be precise' to indicate that you are giving more detailed or accurate information than you have just given.
  • transformable — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
  • treasury bond — any of various interest-bearing bonds issued by the U.S. Treasury Department, usually maturing over a long period of time.
  • truck bolster — the upper transverse member of a car truck that holds the truck center plate and receives the car's weight.
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