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12-letter words containing b, p, s

  • rumble strip — one of a series of rough or slightly raised strips of pavement on a highway, intended to slow down the speed of vehicles, as before a toll booth.
  • saprobiology — the branch of ecology that studies decaying organic matter or environments, especially saprophytes that derive nourishment in this way.
  • satanophobia — a morbid fear of the devil or Satan
  • scrapbooking — hobby: collaging
  • scraperboard — scratchboard.
  • scrub typhus — an acute febrile disease characterized by severe headache, skin rash, chills, and swelling of the lymph nodes, caused by the bite of mites infected with the microorganism Rickettsia tsutsugamushi: occurs mainly in Asia, Australia, and the islands of the western Pacific
  • separability — capable of being separated, parted, or dissociated.
  • shepherd boy — male child who herds sheep
  • ship biscuit — hardtack.
  • shipbuilding — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
  • 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.
  • simplifiable — having the ability to be made less complicated, clearer, or easier
  • sleeper goby — any gobioid fish of the family Eleotridae, of brackish or fresh tropical waters, resembling the gobies but lacking a ventral sucker
  • sleeping bag — a warmly lined or padded body-length bag, usually waterproof and with a closure, in which one or two persons can sleep, especially outdoors, as when camping.
  • slipper bath — a bath in the shape of a slipper, with a covered end
  • snobographer — a person who writes about snobs
  • specbaserate — A variant of SPECrate that reports "baseline" results, using stricter run rules. See SPECrate_base_fp92, SPECrate_base_int92.
  • speedballing — the practice of taking cocaine and heroin together intravenously
  • speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
  • spellbinding — to hold or bind by or as if by a spell; enchant; entrance; fascinate.
  • spelling bee — a spelling competition won by the individual or team spelling the greatest number of words correctly; spelldown.
  • spider's web — a mesh of fine tough scleroprotein threads built by a spider from a liquid secreted from its spinnerets and used to trap insects
  • spina bifida — a congenital neural tube defect in which part of the meninges or spinal cord protrudes through the spinal column, often resulting in neurological impairment.
  • spinach beet — chard, a plant cultivated for its edible leaves
  • 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.
  • sportability — suitability to be used in or as a sport
  • spring break — a vacation from school or college during the spring term, lasting about a week.
  • spud-bashing — the task of peeling potatoes, given as a punishment
  • spun-bonding — a process for forming nonwoven fabrics, usually of limited durability, by bonding continuous-filament synthetic fibers immediately after extrusion.
  • stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
  • step by step — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
  • 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
  • striped bass — an important American game fish, Morone saxatilis, having blackish stripes along each side.
  • sub-parallel — extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.
  • sub-tropical — Sub-tropical places have a climate that is warm and wet, and are often near tropical regions.
  • subapostolic — of or relating to the era after that of the Apostles
  • subcomponent — a constituent part; element; ingredient.
  • subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
  • subepidermal — just below the epidermis or skin
  • subinspector — a secondary or assistant inspector
  • sublapsarian — infralapsarianism.
  • suboccipital — situated below the occipital bone or the occipital lobe of the brain.
  • subopercular — of or relating to the suboperculum
  • suboperculum — a bone in fishes behind the operculum or gill covering
  • subparagraph — a distinct portion of written or printed matter dealing with a particular idea, usually beginning with an indentation on a new line.
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