9-letter words containing i, b, s
- stability — the state or quality of being stable.
- stabilize — to make or hold stable, firm, or steadfast.
- steinbeck — John (Ernst) [urnst] /ɜrnst/ (Show IPA), 1902–68, U.S. novelist: Nobel prize 1962.
- steinberg — Saul, 1914–1999, U.S. painter, cartoonist, and illustrator; born in Romania.
- 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
- stink bug — any of numerous broad, flat bugs of the family Pentatomidae, that emit a disagreeable odor.
- stinkball — stinkpot (def 1).
- stirabout — porridge.
- stormbird — any bird of several species of black, white, or grey seabirds belonging to the order Procellariiformes
- 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-chief — the head or leader of an organized body of people; the person highest in authority: the chief of police.
- sub-humid — containing a high amount of water or water vapor; noticeably moist: humid air; a humid climate.
- sub-ideal — a conception of something in its perfection.
- sub-tribe — any aggregate of people united by ties of descent from a common ancestor, community of customs and traditions, adherence to the same leaders, etc.
- subaction — an act of subduing
- 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.
- subarctic — of, pertaining to, similar to, or being the region immediately south of the Arctic Circle; subpolar.
- subatomic — of or relating to a process that occurs within an atom.
- subcasing — a rough casing for a doorway or window.
- subcavity — a cavity within a larger cavity
- 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.
- subdivide — to divide (that which has already been divided) into smaller parts; divide again after a first division.
- subeditor — a subordinate or junior editor.
- subentire — (of parts of plants) slightly indented
- 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.
- subic bay — a bay in the South China Sea, near the Bataan Peninsula in W Luzon, in the Philippines: former U.S. naval base.
- subincise — to perform a subincision
- subinfeud — a grant by a feudal tenant of land to a further tenant
- 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.