12-letter words containing g, r, b
- rock bunting — a seed-eating songbird, Emberiza cia
- rolling boil — heated liquid: bubbling
- rubber goods — contraceptives; condoms
- ruby wedding — a fortieth wedding anniversary
- rugby league — a form of rugby football played between teams of 13 players
- rugby player — a person who plays rugby
- rugby tackle — A rugby tackle is a way of making someone fall over by throwing your arms around their legs or hips.
- running back — an offensive back, as a halfback or fullback, whose principal role is advancing the ball by running with it on plays from scrimmage.
- running bond — a brickwork bond having successive courses of overlapping stretchers.
- sacring bell — a small bell rung at the elevation of the Host and chalice during Mass
- sailboarding — windsurfing.
- saprobiology — the branch of ecology that studies decaying organic matter or environments, especially saprophytes that derive nourishment in this way.
- scramblingly — in a scrambling manner
- scrapbooking — hobby: collaging
- scribblingly — in a scribbling manner
- scribbly gum — any species of the genus Eucalyptus with smooth white bark marked with random patterns made by wood-boring insects
- semiglobular — possessing the form of half a globe; hemispheric.
- shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
- shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
- shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
- sigma baryon — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
- signal board — a board for displaying electrically transmitted signals and indicating their source.
- sleeper goby — any gobioid fish of the family Eleotridae, of brackish or fresh tropical waters, resembling the gobies but lacking a ventral sucker
- slow-burning — (of combustible material) burning relatively slowly
- slubberingly — in a slubbering or slovenly manner
- slumberingly — in a slumbering manner
- snobographer — a person who writes about snobs
- snowboarding — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.
- sorghum beer — beer made from sorghum or millet
- spring break — a vacation from school or college during the spring term, lasting about a week.
- stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
- stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
- stockbroking — business of buying and selling stock
- storage tube — an electron tube in which information is stored as charges for a predetermined time
- store-bought — commercially made rather than homemade.
- straight bat — a bat held vertically
- straightbred — (of animals) purebred; having parents of the same breed
- stringy-bark — any of several eucalyptus trees having a fibrous bark
- strobe light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
- strobe-light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
- struggle bus — a situation, task, etc., that seems difficult or frustrating: With no sleep last night, I’ll be on the struggle bus today.
- sub-mortgage — a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
- sub-religion — a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
- subaggregate — a subtotal
- submicrogram — containing or relating to a mass of less than one microgram
- subparagraph — a distinct portion of written or printed matter dealing with a particular idea, usually beginning with an indentation on a new line.
- surfboarding — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
- survival bag — a large plastic bag carried by climbers for use in an emergency as protection against exposure
- swing bridge — a bridge that can open by pivoting on a central pier to let vessels pass.
- take umbrage — If you say that a person takes umbrage, you mean that they are upset or offended by something that someone says or does to them, often without much reason.