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11-letter words containing g, r, b

  • rubbish bag — a plastic bag for the disposal of household rubbish
  • rugby shirt — a knitted pullover sport shirt usually in bold horizontal stripes and having a white collar and neckline placket, styled after the shirts traditionally worn by the members of Rugby teams.
  • rugby union — a form of rugby football played between teams of 15 players
  • ruling body — authority, group in charge
  • san gabriel — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
  • schrödinbug — (jargon, programming)   /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
  • shutter-bug — an amateur photographer, especially one who is greatly devoted to the hobby.
  • singles bar — a bar or tavern catering to a clientele composed chiefly of single men and women, especially those seeking a lover or spouse.
  • smorgasbord — a buffet meal of various hot and cold hors d'oeuvres, salads, casserole dishes, meats, cheeses, etc.
  • snobography — an account or description of snobs
  • snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
  • soil boring — Soil boring is a technique used to survey soil by taking several shallow cores out of the sediment. It is used when a drilling jacket or jack-up rig is to be supported on the soil.
  • soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
  • southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
  • spartanburg — a city in NW South Carolina.
  • 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.
  • spring lamb — a lamb born in the late winter or early spring and sold for slaughter before July 1.
  • springboard — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • spur blight — a disease of raspberries, characterized by reddish-brown spots on the stems, caused by a fungus, Didymella applanata.
  • stable girl — a girl or woman who looks after or attends horses in stables
  • 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
  • stourbridge — an industrial town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 480 (2001)
  • string band — a band consisting of stringed instruments
  • string bass — double bass.
  • 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.
  • stringboard — a board or facing covering the ends of the steps in a staircase.
  • sub-manager — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
  • subcategory — a subordinate category or a division of a category.
  • subfreezing — below the freezing point.
  • subglobular — globe-shaped; spherical.
  • 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.
  • submarginal — Biology. near the margin.
  • submarining — a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under water, usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.
  • submergence — to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.
  • submergible — submersible.
  • subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
  • subscribing — 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.
  • sugar basin — sugar bowl.
  • superbright — exceptionally bright
  • swamp barge — A swamp barge is a vessel used for offshore drilling in very shallow water, which is towed out and then rests on the bottom.
  • syllabogram — a written symbol representing a single syllable
  • table sugar — granulated white sugar.
  • tangleberry — a huckleberry, Gaylussacia frondosa, of the eastern U.S.
  • terbrugghen — Hendrik. 1588–1629, Dutch painter of the Utrecht school, who specialized in religious subjects, for example the Incredulity of St Thomas and the Calling of St Matthew
  • tharborough — a type of constable in William Shakespeare's 'Love's Labours Lost'
  • the gorbals — a district of Glasgow, formerly known for its slums
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