11-letter words containing b, o, l, e
- snow blower — a motor-driven machine on wheels used to remove snow by throwing it into the air and to one side.
- snowmobiler — a person who drives a snowmobile
- soap boiler — a manufacturer of soap
- soap bubble — a bubble of soapsuds.
- soap-bubble — a bubble of soapsuds.
- soft-boiled — to boil (an egg) just long enough for the yolk and white to partially solidify, usually three or four minutes.
- 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.
- soluble rna — a small RNA molecule, consisting of a strand of nucleotides folded into a clover-leaf shape, that picks up an unattached amino acid within the cell cytoplasm and conveys it to the ribosome for protein synthesis. Abbreviation: tRNA.
- 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.
- spin bowler — a bowler who specializes in bowling balls with a spinning motion
- 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.
- stable door — a door with an upper and lower leaf that may be opened separately
- stereoblind — lacking the ability to see in three dimensions through both eyes
- stilbestrol — a nonsteroidal synthetic estrogen, C 18 H 20 O 2 , used in medicine chiefly in the treatment of menopausal symptoms and in animal feeds for chemical caponization: formerly used during pregnancy for the prevention of miscarriage but discontinued owing to its association with an increased risk of vaginal and cervical cancers in women having had fetal exposure. Abbreviation: DES.
- stobie pole — a steel and concrete pole for supporting electricity wires
- stone-blind — completely blind.
- subarboreal — living or thriving under trees
- subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
- subemployed — of or relating to workers affected by subemployment
- submolecule — a part of a molecule
- subvocalize — to form (words) silently by moving the lips or other vocal organs without vocalization
- supportable — capable of being supported; endurable; maintainable.
- suzie cobol — /soo'zee koh'bol/ 1. (IBM, probably from Frank Zappa's "Suzy Creamcheese") A coder straight out of training school who knows everything except the value of comments in plain English. Also (fashionable among personkind wishing to avoid accusations of sexism) "Sammy Cobol" or (in some non-IBM circles) "Cobol Charlie". 2. (proposed) Meta-name for any code grinder, analogous to J. Random Hacker.
- swage block — an iron block containing holes and grooves of various sizes, used for heading bolts and shaping objects not easily worked on an anvil.
- swallowable — to take into the stomach by drawing through the throat and esophagus with a voluntary muscular action, as food, drink, or other substances.
- sweat blood — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
- swivelblock — a block that supports a swivel
- szombathely — a city in W Hungary: founded a.d. 48.
- table board — daily meals provided for pay.
- table money — an allowance for official entertaining of visitors, etc, esp in the army
- tabletopped — having a table top
- tempolabile — changing irregularly with time
- the gorbals — a district of Glasgow, formerly known for its slums
- the jobless — those who are unemployed
- the lebanon — a republic in W Asia, on the Mediterranean: an important centre of the Phoenician civilization in the third millennium bc; part of the Ottoman Empire from 1516 until 1919; gained independence in 1941 (effective by 1945). Official language: Arabic; French and English are also widely spoken. Religion: Muslim and Christian. Currency: Lebanese pound. Capital: Beirut. Pop: 4 131 583 (2013 est). Area: 10 400 sq km (4015 sq miles)
- thunderbolt — a flash of lightning with the accompanying thunder.
- timber wolf — the gray wolf, Canis lupus, sometimes designated as the subspecies C. lupus occidentalis: formerly common in northern North America but now greatly reduced in number and rare in the conterminous U.S.
- toddy table — a small stand of the 18th century, used for holding drinks.
- toggle bolt — an anchor bolt having two hinged wings, ordinarily held open by a spring, for engaging the rough sides of a hole drilled in masonry or the inner surface of a hollow wall.
- toghril beg — ?990–1063 ad, Sultan of Turkey (1055–63), who founded the Seljuq dynasty and conquered Baghdad (1055)
- toilet bowl — the ceramic bowl of a toilet.
- tolbutamide — a white crystalline substance, C 12 H 18 N 2 O 3 S, used to augment insulin secretion in the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
- toll bridge — a bridge at which a toll is charged.
- toolbuilder — Tool Builder Kit
- topless bar — a bar in which barmaids or waitresses work naked from the waist up
- tower block — a high-rise building.
- travel book — a book about travelling to a certain country or region, esp a guidebook
- treasonable — of the nature of treason.
- triple bond — a chemical linkage consisting of three covalent bonds between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by three lines or six dots, as CH≡CH or CH⋮⋮CH.
- trolley bus — a passenger bus operating on tires and having an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires.