11-letter words containing e, b, a
- shea butter — a solid, greenish, yellowish, or whitish fat derived from the seeds of the shea tree, used for food and in the manufacture of soaps and candles.
- shish kebab — meat on skewer
- shish-kebab — to broil or roast food on a skewer.
- shopbreaker — a robber who breaks into a shop
- shovel beak — a deformity of the beak in intensively reared chicks
- shovelboard — the game of shuffleboard.
- sibuyan sea — a sea in the Philippines S of Luzon and E of Mindanao: site of U.S.-Japan naval battle 1944.
- silver bass — white bass.
- singles bar — a bar or tavern catering to a clientele composed chiefly of single men and women, especially those seeking a lover or spouse.
- skatemobile — a scooterlike vehicle built of boxes, boards, or the like, and mounted on skate wheels.
- slack-baked — improperly baked.
- slate black — a slightly purplish black.
- slave labor — persons, especially a large group, performing labor under duress or threats, as prisoners in a concentration camp; a labor force of slaves or slavelike prisoners.
- sleeveboard — a small-scale ironing board for pressing sleeves, especially a narrow board that fits inside a coat sleeve.
- slumberland — an imaginary land described to children as the place they enter during sleep.
- smokey bear — an officer or officers of a state highway patrol.
- snack table — a small portable folding table used for an individual serving.
- snakeblenny — any of several pricklebacks of the genus Lumpenus.
- snapperback — the center on the offensive team.
- snob appeal — the attributes of something that appeal to people who associate those qualities with social or intellectual superiority; a thing's attractiveness to snobs.
- snow banner — snow being blown off a mountaintop.
- soap boiler — a manufacturer of soap
- soap bubble — a bubble of soapsuds.
- soap-bubble — a bubble of soapsuds.
- soluble rna — a small RNA molecule, consisting of a strand of nucleotides folded into a clover-leaf shape, that picks up an unattached amino acid within the cell cytoplasm and conveys it to the ribosome for protein synthesis. Abbreviation: tRNA.
- soybean oil — a pale-yellow oil derived from soybeans by expression or solvent extraction: used as a food and in the manufacture of soap, candles, inks, paints, varnishes, etc.
- space probe — Aerospace. an unmanned spacecraft designed to explore the solar system and transmit data back to earth.
- specifiable — that can be specified.
- speed brake — a flap on an aircraft wing used to decrease speed in flight in preparation for landing.
- spider crab — any of various crabs of the family Majidae, having long, slender legs and a comparatively small, triangular body.
- sponge bath — a bath in which the bather is cleaned by a wet sponge or washcloth dipped in water, without getting into a tub of water.
- spoon bread — Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a baked dish made with cornmeal, milk, eggs, and shortening, served as an accompaniment to meat.
- sprite crab — ghost crab.
- st. bernard — St. Bernard (def 3).
- st.-lambert — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, across from Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- stable door — a door with an upper and lower leaf that may be opened separately
- stable girl — a girl or woman who looks after or attends horses in stables
- stag beetle — any of numerous lamellicorn beetles of the family Lucanidae, some of the males of which have mandibles resembling the antlers of a stag.
- stage brace — a brace for supporting upright pieces of theatrical scenery.
- staggerbush — an ericaceous deciduous shrub, Lyonia mariana, of E North America, having white or pinkish flowers: it is poisonous to livestock
- 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.
- steam table — a boxlike table or counter, usually of stainless steel, with receptacles in the top into which containers of food may be fitted to be kept warm by steam or hot water in the compartment below.
- stenobathic — of or relating to marine or freshwater life that can tolerate only limited changes in depth (opposed to eurybathic).
- stereobatic — relating to or resembling a stereobate
- stickleback — any of the small, pugnacious, spiny-backed fishes of the family Gasterosteidae, inhabiting northern fresh waters and sea inlets, the male of which builds and guards the nest.
- store brand — an item offered for sale under a store's own label.
- street arab — a person, especially a child, who lives a homeless, vagabond life on the streets; urchin.
- stress ball — a small rubber ball squeezed in the hand as a means of relieving stress
- strike back — retaliate
- 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.