11-letter words containing b, r, i, s, e
- self-binder — binder (def 5b).
- semishrubby — somewhat resembling a shrub; shrubby in some respects; having characteristics somewhat like those of a shrub; partly covered in shrubs
- sennacherib — died 681 b.c, king of Assyria 705–681.
- septembrist — a person who instigated or took part in the September Massacre.
- service bus — a public bus with a regular route
- serviceable — capable of or being of service; useful.
- ship-broker — a person who acts for a shipowner by getting cargo and passengers for his ships and also handling insurance and other matters
- shipbuilder — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- shrubberied — having a shrubbery
- silver bass — white bass.
- silver beet — a variety of beet, Beta vulgaris cicla, having large firm green leaves: staple cooked green vegetable in Australia and New Zealand
- silver bell — any North American shrub or small tree belonging to the genus Halesia, of the storax family, having toothed leaves and drooping white, bell-shaped flowers.
- 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.
- silverberry — a shrub, Elaeagnus commutata (or E. argentea), of north-central North America, having silvery leaves and flowers and silvery, drupelike edible fruit.
- singles bar — a bar or tavern catering to a clientele composed chiefly of single men and women, especially those seeking a lover or spouse.
- skinner box — a box used in experiments in animal learning, especially in operant conditioning, equipped with a mechanism that automatically gives the animal food or other reward or permits escape, as by opening a door.
- snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
- snowmobiler — a person who drives a snowmobile
- soap boiler — a manufacturer of soap
- 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.
- southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- spellbinder — a person or thing that spellbinds, especially a powerful speaker who can captivate an audience.
- spider crab — any of various crabs of the family Majidae, having long, slender legs and a comparatively small, triangular body.
- spin bowler — a bowler who specializes in bowling balls with a spinning motion
- spinel ruby — ruby spinel.
- spitsbergen — a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean, N of and belonging to Norway. 24,293 sq. mi. (62,920 sq. km).
- spitzbergen — a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean, N of and belonging to Norway. 24,293 sq. mi. (62,920 sq. km).
- spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
- sprite crab — ghost crab.
- stable girl — a girl or woman who looks after or attends horses in stables
- stereobatic — relating to or resembling a stereobate
- stereoblind — lacking the ability to see in three dimensions through both eyes
- sternotribe — (of a flower) having contact with the sternum of an insect
- 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.
- stourbridge — an industrial town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 480 (2001)
- strike back — retaliate
- strike dumb — to amaze; astound; astonish
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- string bean — any of various kinds of bean, as the green bean, the unripe pods of which are used as food, usually after stripping off the fibrous thread along the side.
- sub-article — a written composition in prose, usually nonfiction, on a specific topic, forming an independent part of a book or other publication, as a newspaper or magazine.
- subaerially — in a subaerial manner
- subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
- subcurative — of a dosage which is not strong enough to have a curing effect
- subdelirium — a mild delirium with lucid intervals.
- subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
- subfreezing — below the freezing point.
- subinterval — an interval that is a subset of a given interval.
- subirrigate — to irrigate beneath the surface of the ground, as with water passing through a system of underground porous pipes or transmitted through the subsoil from ditches, etc.
- subliteracy — below average literacy
- subliterary — not intended as literature