12-letter words containing b, s, e, t
- roots blower — a machine for compressing or evacuating air or gas by the rotation of a meshing pair of lobed wheels in a closely fitting case.
- rubber boots — wellingtons: footwear worn in rain
- rubber stamp — handheld printing tool
- rubber-stamp — to imprint with a rubber stamp.
- 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.
- sabermetrics — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- safety blade — a blade, as on a knife, razor, etc, with a guard to reduce the risk of accidental cutting
- saint hubert — a borough in S Quebec, Canada, just E of Montreal.
- saint-brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
- saint-hubert — town in S Quebec, Canada: part of metropolitan Montreal: pop. 77,000
- sainte-beuve — Charles Augustin [sharl oh-gy-stan] /ʃarl oʊ güˈstɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1804–69, French literary critic.
- salad basket — a basket in which washed salad greens are swung or spun to remove excess water.
- salad burnet — a plant, Poterium sanguisorba, of the rose family, native to Eurasia, having rounded heads of small, greenish flowers in short spikes and edible leaves.
- sanctionable — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- sanctus bell — a bell rung during the celebration of Mass to call attention to the more solemn parts.
- sand-blasted — a blast of air or steam laden with sand, used to clean, grind, cut, or decorate hard surfaces, as of glass, stone, or metal.
- 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.
- santa isabel — former name of Malabo.
- sb's travels — the journeys someone makes to places a long way from their home
- scatterbrain — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
- scent bottle — a bottle of perfume
- scribblement — a scribble
- scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
- secobarbital — a white, odorless, slightly bitter powder, C 1 2 H 1 8 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- section boss — the boss of a section gang.
- sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
- self-basting — (of a turkey) prepared with oil or butter to remain moist when cooked in an oven.
- self-benefit — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
- sell-by date — the last date on which perishable food should be sold, usually established with some allowance for home storage under refrigeration. Compare shelf life.
- semantic web — an extension of the World Wide Web in which data is structured and XML-tagged on the basis of its meaning or content, so that computers can process and integrate the information without human intervention: the semantic Web acting as a global database or huge brain.
- semiabstract — of or relating to art or sculpture which is abstract but in which the subject can still be recognized
- semibasement — a basement partly above ground, as in a house built on a slope.
- separability — capable of being separated, parted, or dissociated.
- set store by — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- severability — capability of being separated, as of a clause in an agreement
- sewing table — a worktable for holding sewing materials, often supplied with a bag or pouch for needlework.
- shareability — the state or property of being able to be shared
- shelter belt — a row of trees planted to protect an area from the wind
- 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.
- skateboarder — person who rides skateboard
- skeleton bob — a small sledge for racing over a frozen track, steered by the rider by movements of the head and shoulders
- sketch-books — Also, sketchpad. a book or pad of drawing paper for sketches.
- slipper bath — a bath in the shape of a slipper, with a covered end
- snake-bitten — bitten by a snake.
- snout beetle — weevil (def 1).
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- solitary bee — any of numerous bees, as the leaf-cutting bees, that do not live in a community.
- somnambulate — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption