11-letter words containing e, b, a
- round table — conference, meeting
- round-table — noting or pertaining to a conference, discussion, or deliberation in which each participant has equal status, equal time to present views, etc.: round-table discussions.
- rubber band — a narrow, circular or oblong band of rubber, used for holding things together, as papers or a box and its lid.
- rubber game — any game played to break a tie resulting when each side has won the same number of games
- rubefacient — causing redness of the skin, as a medicinal application.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- rumble seat — Also called, British, dickey. a seat recessed into the back of a coupe or roadster, covered by a hinged lid that opens to form the back of the seat when in use.
- runner bean — string bean (defs 1, 2).
- saarbrucken — a state in W Germany, in the Saar River valley. 991 sq. mi. (2569 sq. km). Capital: Saarbrücken.
- sabine lake — a shallow lake on the boundary between Texas and Louisiana, formed by a widening of the Sabine River. About 17 miles (27 km) long; 7 miles (11 km) wide.
- sabrmetrics — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- sacred ibis — an African ibis, Threskiornis aethiopica, having a black, naked head and neck and white and black plumage, venerated by the ancient Egyptians.
- saddle back — any of various animals having markings on the back that resemble a saddle, as a male harp seal.
- safe harbor — a harbor considered safe for a ship, as in wartime or during a storm at sea.
- safe-blower — a person who uses explosives to open safes and rob them
- safety belt — seat belt.
- safety bolt — a bolt or lock on a door or gate that cannot be moved from the outside
- sailboarder — windsurfer
- saleability — subject to or suitable for sale; readily sold: The books were sent back by the store in salable condition.
- salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
- salvageable — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
- sample book — a number of pieces of fabric, wallpaper, etc fastened together at one edge, for people to examine when trying to choose which example to buy
- san gabriel — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- satirizable — able to be satirized or ridiculed
- satisfiable — to fulfill the desires, expectations, needs, or demands of (a person, the mind, etc.); give full contentment to: The hearty meal satisfied him.
- sauce bercy — Bercy.
- sauerbraten — a pot roast of beef, marinated before cooking in a mixture of vinegar, sugar, and seasonings.
- saul bellow — Saul, 1915–2005, U.S. novelist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize in Literature 1976.
- scabbedness — the state or condition of being scabbed; scabbiness
- scaberulous — tending to be scabrous or slightly rough to the touch
- scarabaeist — a person who studies the beetle family Scarabaeidae
- scarabaeoid — resembling a scarab.
- schiff base — the product of the chemical association of an aldehyde with a primary amine
- scuba diver — sb who dives underwater
- sea bathing — the activity of swimming in the sea
- sea biscuit — ship biscuit; hardtack.
- sea blubber — a large jellyfish, Cyanea capillata.
- sea cabbage — a brown alga, Hedophyllum sessile, of the North Pacific, characterized by a compact mass of fronds resembling a cabbage.
- sealed book — something beyond understanding and therefore unknown.
- sealed-beam — a headlight in which the reflector and lens are hermetically sealed together with the filament in a single unit.
- seam bowler — a fast bowler who makes the ball bounce on its seam so that it will change direction
- second base — the second in order of the bases from home plate.
- senate bill — a proposed new law introduced for debate before the upper chamber of the legislature in, for example, the US, Canada, Australia, etc
- sennacherib — died 681 b.c, king of Assyria 705–681.
- serbo-croat — Serbo-Croat is one of the languages spoken in the former Yugoslavia.
- serviceable — capable of or being of service; useful.
- shacklebone — the wrist
- shaftesbury — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of, 1621–83, English statesman.
- sharpbender — an organization that has been underperforming its competitors but suddenly becomes more successful, often as a result of new management or changes in its business strategy
- shcherbakov — a former name (1946–57) of Andropov.