11-letter words containing i, b, c
- rib-tickler — very amusing; funny or hilarious: a book of rib-tickling stories.
- ribbon copy — the original copy of a number of typewritten copies (distinguished from carbon copy).
- ribonucleic — an acid derived from ribose
- rich object — In artificial intelligence, an object which cannot be completely described or represented but about which assertions can be made.
- ride cymbal — a medium-sized cymbal suspended over a set of drums, used for maintaining rhythm patterns since the advent of bop
- right brace — (character) "}". ASCII character 125. Common names: close brace; right brace; right squiggly; right squiggly bracket/brace; right curly bracket/brace; ITU-T: closing brace. Rare: unbrace; uncurly; rytit ("" = leftit); right squirrelly; {INTERCAL: bracelet ("" = embrace). Paired with {left brace
- river birch — a tree, Betula nigra, of the eastern U.S., having papery, reddish-brown bark that peels away.
- robotically — in a robotic manner
- rock rabbit — rock hyrax.
- rock-ribbed — having ribs or ridges of rock: the rock-ribbed coast of Maine.
- roman brick — a long, thin face brick, usually yellow-brown and having a length about eight times its thickness.
- rowing club — rowboat association
- rubefacient — causing redness of the skin, as a medicinal application.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- rumbustical — rumbustious
- 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.
- saltimbanco — a charlatan or fake
- saltimbocca — veal and ham wrapped together and sautéed in butter, often seasoned with sage.
- saprobiotic — saprobic
- scalability — the ability of something, esp a computer system, to adapt to increased demands
- scambaiting — the practice of pretending to fall for fraudulent online schemes in order to waste the time of the perpetrators
- scamblingly — in a scambling, noisy, or intrusive manner
- 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
- 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.
- scopophobia — the fear of being observed
- scotophobin — a peptide isolated from the brains of rats conditioned to avoid darkness, alleged to induce a dark-avoidance response in untrained rats, mice, and other animals.
- scribacious — having the tendency to write a lot or too much
- scrobicular — of or relating to the smooth areas on a sea urchin surrounding its nodules
- scuba diver — sb who dives underwater
- sea biscuit — ship biscuit; hardtack.
- sennacherib — died 681 b.c, king of Assyria 705–681.
- service bus — a public bus with a regular route
- serviceable — capable of or being of service; useful.
- shabby chic — Shabby Chic is a style of decorating the inside of a house in which the furniture and house look slightly used or old in a way that is attractive.
- sociability — the act or an instance of being sociable.
- social club — A social club is a club where members go in order to meet each other and enjoy leisure activities.
- sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
- sorbic acid — a white, crystalline compound, C 6 H 8 O 2 , slightly soluble in water, soluble in many organic solvents: used as a preservative in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and food.
- specifiable — that can be specified.
- spider crab — any of various crabs of the family Majidae, having long, slender legs and a comparatively small, triangular body.
- sprite crab — ghost crab.
- 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.
- 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
- stick-built — built piece-by-piece at the construction site, as opposed to factory-built.
- 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.
- strike back — retaliate