12-letter words containing b, o, s, n
- sandbox tree — a tropical American tree, Hura crepitans, of the spurge family, bearing a furrowed, roundish fruit about the size of an orange that when ripe and dry bursts with a sharp report and scatters the seeds.
- satanophobia — a morbid fear of the devil or Satan
- savings bond — a U.S. government bond with principal amounts up to $10,000.
- scent bottle — a bottle of perfume
- scrapbooking — hobby: collaging
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- section boss — the boss of a section gang.
- serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
- shadow bands — slow-moving waves of light and dark observed to move across light-coloured surfaces on the earth just before and after totality in a solar eclipse. They are thought to originate from the effects of irregular atmospheric refraction
- shooting box — a small house or lodge for use during the shooting season.
- shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
- shopping bag — a strong, usually paper or plastic, bag with handles, used to carry purchases or belongings.
- sigma baryon — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
- signal board — a board for displaying electrically transmitted signals and indicating their source.
- sino-tibetan — a family of languages including especially Burmese, Tibetan, and the various local languages and dialects whose speakers share literary Chinese as their standard language.
- skeleton bob — a small sledge for racing over a frozen track, steered by the rider by movements of the head and shoulders
- slobbishness — the state or characteristic of being a slob
- slow-burning — (of combustible material) burning relatively slowly
- snatch block — a fairlead having the form of a block that can be opened to receive the bight of a rope at any point along its length.
- snobographer — a person who writes about snobs
- snout beetle — weevil (def 1).
- snow bunting — a bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis, of the northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere having white plumage.
- snowboarding — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.
- snowmobilist — a person who drives a snowmobile, a snowmobiler
- sober-minded — rational; sensible.
- somnambulant — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- somnambulate — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- somnambulism — sleepwalking.
- somnambulist — sleepwalking.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
- speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
- spinal block — spinal anesthesia.
- spinning box — centrifugal box.
- spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
- spongioblast — one of the primordial cells in the embryonic brain and spinal cord capable of developing into neuroglia.
- spun-bonding — a process for forming nonwoven fabrics, usually of limited durability, by bonding continuous-filament synthetic fibers immediately after extrusion.
- stephen jobs — (person) Stephen P. Jobs (born 24 February 1955). The co-founder and ex-president of Apple Computer, leader of the team that produced the Macintosh. In 1979, when he was president of Apple, Steven Jobs saw a demonstration of Smalltalk at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. He and other Apple employees were "very impressed with the unique and revolutionary user-friendly design". The first Macintosh was released in January 1984. Jobs described it as insanely great. Jobs was ousted from Apple in 1985 and founded Next, Inc.. In December 1996 he was re-employed by Apple when they bought NeXT. See also lithium lick, Mathematica.
- stirrup bone — the stapes, one of the three bones of the middle ear
- stockbroking — business of buying and selling stock
- stone bruise — a bruise on the sole of the foot, caused by walking on or striking against a small stone or other hard object.
- stonebreaker — a person that breaks up stone
- strobe tuner — an electronic instrument tuner that uses stroboscopic light
- strobilation — asexual reproduction by division into segments, as in tapeworms and jellyfishes
- stubbornness — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
- student body — all the students enrolled at an educational institution.
- stuffing box — a device for preventing leakage of gases or liquids along a moving rod or shaft at the point at which it leaves a cylinder, tank, ship hull, etc.
- stunt double — someone who performs dangerous stunts in a film in place of an actor
- sub-attorney — a lawyer; attorney-at-law.
- sub-function — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.