11-letter words containing b, o, s, l, e
- obstetrical — of or relating to the care and treatment of women in childbirth and during the period before and after delivery.
- obstinately — firmly or stubbornly adhering to one's purpose, opinion, etc.; not yielding to argument, persuasion, or entreaty.
- obtrusively — having or showing a disposition to obtrude, as by imposing oneself or one's opinions on others.
- osteoblasts — Plural form of osteoblast.
- outbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outbalance.
- overballast — (transitive) To load with too much ballast.
- overblouses — Plural form of overblouse.
- pensionable — worker: of retirement age
- polysorbate — any of a class of emulsifying and dispersing agents used in various foods and pharmaceutical preparations.
- possessable — capable of being possessed
- post-bellum — of or during the period after a war, esp the American Civil War
- potableness — the quality of being potable or drinkable
- processable — capable of being processed.
- processible — capable of being processed.
- protestable — an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid: a protest against increased taxation.
- protrusible — able to be thrust outwards
- pubic louse — See under louse (def 1).
- pyrolysable — able to be pyrolysed
- responsible — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
- responsibly — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
- robbinsdale — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- rose beetle — rose chafer.
- safe-blower — a person who uses explosives to open safes and rob them
- safety bolt — a bolt or lock on a door or gate that cannot be moved from the outside
- sailboarder — windsurfer
- salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
- sample book — a number of pieces of fabric, wallpaper, etc fastened together at one edge, for people to examine when trying to choose which example to buy
- saul bellow — Saul, 1915–2005, U.S. novelist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize in Literature 1976.
- scaberulous — tending to be scabrous or slightly rough to the touch
- sealed book — something beyond understanding and therefore unknown.
- seam bowler — a fast bowler who makes the ball bounce on its seam so that it will change direction
- shacklebone — the wrist
- shovel beak — a deformity of the beak in intensively reared chicks
- shovelboard — the game of shuffleboard.
- silver book — (publication) Jensen and Wirth's infamous "Pascal User Manual and Report", so called because of the silver cover of the widely distributed Springer-Verlag second edition of 1978 (ISBN 0-387-90144-2). See also book titles, Pascal.
- 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.
- skatemobile — a scooterlike vehicle built of boxes, boards, or the like, and mounted on skate wheels.
- slave labor — persons, especially a large group, performing labor under duress or threats, as prisoners in a concentration camp; a labor force of slaves or slavelike prisoners.
- sleeveboard — a small-scale ironing board for pressing sleeves, especially a narrow board that fits inside a coat sleeve.
- slop bucket — slop pail.
- slumbersome — tired; sleepy
- smell blood — sense a chance for victory
- snob appeal — the attributes of something that appeal to people who associate those qualities with social or intellectual superiority; a thing's attractiveness to snobs.
- 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.