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11-letter words containing c, u, e, b

  • resubscribe — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
  • ribonucleic — an acid derived from ribose
  • rock beauty — a gold and black butterflyfish, Holocanthus tricolor, ranging from the West Indies to Brazil.
  • rubber duck — duck-shaped bath toy
  • rubefacient — causing redness of the skin, as a medicinal application.
  • rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
  • rust bucket — an old, run-down freighter, especially one whose hull is covered with rust.
  • saarbrucken — a state in W Germany, in the Saar River valley. 991 sq. mi. (2569 sq. km). Capital: Saarbrücken.
  • sauce bercy — Bercy.
  • scaberulous — tending to be scabrous or slightly rough to the touch
  • scrub nurse — a nurse specially trained to assist surgeons in the operating room and serving as part of the surgically clean medical team handling instruments during an operation.
  • scuba diver — sb who dives underwater
  • scuttlebutt — Nautical. an open cask of drinking water. a drinking fountain for use by the crew of a vessel.
  • scuzzbucket — Also called scuzzball [skuhz-bawl] /ˈskʌzˌbɔl/ (Show IPA), scuzzbucket [skuhz-buhk-it] /ˈskʌzˌbʌk ɪt/ (Show IPA). a dirty, grimy, sordid, or repulsive person or thing.
  • sea biscuit — ship biscuit; hardtack.
  • service bus — a public bus with a regular route
  • slop bucket — slop pail.
  • source book — an original writing, as a document, record, or diary, that supplies an authoritative basis for future writing, study, evaluation, etc.
  • spruce beer — a fermented beverage made with spruce leaves and twigs, or an extract from them.
  • static tube — a tube for measuring the static pressure of a fluid in motion, so placed in the fluid as not to be affected by the pressure changes caused by the motion of the fluid.
  • 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.
  • sub-charter — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
  • sub-clauses — Grammar. a syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence.
  • sub-culture — Bacteriology. to cultivate (a bacterial strain) again on a new medium.
  • sub-economy — thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc.
  • sub-project — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
  • sub-society — an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.
  • sub-species — A sub-species of a plant or animal is one of the types that a particular species is divided into.
  • sub-surface — below the surface, especially of a body of water.
  • subadjacent — lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the highway.
  • suballiance — a suborder or subdivision of an alliance
  • subcategory — a subordinate category or a division of a category.
  • subcellular — contained within a cell.
  • subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
  • subcultured — Bacteriology. to cultivate (a bacterial strain) again on a new medium.
  • subcurative — of a dosage which is not strong enough to have a curing effect
  • subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
  • subdecision — a decision secondary to a main decision
  • subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
  • subeconomic — pertaining to the production, distribution, and use of income, wealth, and commodities.
  • subindicate — to indirectly indicate or hint
  • subjectable — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
  • subjectless — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
  • subjectship — the state of being a subject or citizen
  • subjunctive — (in English and certain other languages) noting or pertaining to a mood or mode of the verb that may be used for subjective, doubtful, hypothetical, or grammatically subordinate statements or questions, as the mood of be in if this be treason. Compare imperative (def 3), indicative (def 2).
  • sublicensee — a person, company, etc., to whom a sublicense is granted.
  • subliteracy — below average literacy
  • submergence — to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.
  • submetallic — somewhat or imperfectly metallic.
  • submolecule — a part of a molecule
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