9-letter words containing i, b, l, s
- slide box — a box for keeping slides in
- sligo bay — an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean situated in the NW Republic of Ireland
- slimeball — thin, glutinous mud.
- slingback — Also called sling. a woman's shoe with an open back and a strap or sling encircling the heel of the foot to keep the shoe secure.
- sniffable — capable of being sniffed
- snowblink — a white luminosity on the underside of clouds, caused by the reflection of light from a snow surface.
- sobbingly — in a sobbing manner
- soft-bill — any of numerous birds, as thrushes or tanagers, having relatively weak bills suited for eating insects, soft-bodied animals, and fruit rather than hard seeds.
- soft-boil — to boil (an egg) just long enough for the yolk and white to partially solidify, usually three or four minutes.
- soil bank — a plan providing cash payments to farmers who cut production of certain surplus crops in favor of soil-enriching ones.
- soilborne — carried in soil
- spellbind — to hold or bind by or as if by a spell; enchant; entrance; fascinate.
- spielberg — Steven, born 1947, U.S. film director.
- spillable — to cause or allow to run or fall from a container, especially accidentally or wastefully: to spill a bag of marbles; to spill milk.
- spoilable — able to be spoiled
- sponsible — responsible
- spoonbill — any of several wading birds of the family Plataleidae, related to the ibises, having a long, flat bill with a spoonlike tip.
- stabilate — a collection of living organisms, gathered on one occasion and preserved for a particular use
- stabilise — to make or hold stable, firm, or steadfast.
- stability — the state or quality of being stable.
- stabilize — to make or hold stable, firm, or steadfast.
- stickable — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stickball — a form of baseball played in the streets, on playgrounds, etc., in which a rubber ball and a broomstick or the like are used in place of a baseball and bat.
- stillborn — dead when born.
- stilt bug — any of various slender, long-legged, brownish bugs of the family Berytidae, inhabiting dense vegetation: sometimes classified with the leaf-footed bugs.
- stiltbird — a long-legged wading bird with three toes inhabiting ponds and marshes
- stingbull — Trachinus draco, a species of fish with venomous spines on their dorsal fins that are capable of wounding humans
- stinkball — stinkpot (def 1).
- strikable — being cause for a strike, as by union members: strikable labor issues.
- strobilar — of or relating to a strobila
- strobilus — a reproductive structure characterized by overlapping scalelike parts, as a pine cone or the fruit of the hop.
- stromboli — an island off the NE coast of Sicily, in the Lipari group.
- stub nail — a short, thick nail.
- studiable — application of the mind to the acquisition of knowledge, as by reading, investigation, or reflection: long hours of study.
- stumbling — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
- suability — liable to be sued; capable of being sued.
- sub-ideal — a conception of something in its perfection.
- subaerial — located or occurring on the surface of the earth.
- subalpine — pertaining to the regions at the foot of the Alps.
- subapical — located below the apex.
- subclimax — the development of an ecological community to a stage short of the expected climax because of some factor, as repeated fires in a forest, that arrests the normal succession.
- subfamily — Biology. a category of related genera within a family.
- subfossil — something partly fossilized
- subhalide — a halide containing a relatively small proportion of the halogen, as mercurous chloride.
- sublation — to deny or contradict; negate.
- sublimate — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- sublimely — elevated or lofty in thought, language, etc.: Paradise Lost is sublime poetry.
- sublimity — the state or quality of being sublime.
- sublimize — to make sublime
- sublinear — of, consisting of, or using lines: linear design.