9-letter words containing i, b, s
- submarine — a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under water, usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.
- submatrix — a set of certain rows and columns of a given matrix.
- submicron — (of particles) being less than a micron in overall dimensions.
- submissly — submissively
- submittal — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- submitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- submitter — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- subniveal — beneath the snow
- suboffice — a branch or local office of a business
- suboscine — of or relating to birds of the suborder Suboscines, of the order Passeriformes, comprising the supposedly more primitive members of the order, with less well developed vocal organs than the oscine birds.
- subperiod — a subdivision of a time period
- subprimal — (of meat) being a cut of meat larger than a steak, roast, or other single cut but smaller than a side of beef: shipped by the packer to local markets for final cutting to reduce processing costs and to retard spoilage.
- subpurlin — a light structural member for carrying roofing materials, supported by and running at right angles to purlins.
- subregion — a division or subdivision of a region, especially a division of a zoogeographical region.
- subscribe — 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.
- subscript — written below (distinguished from adscript, superscript).
- subsecive — left over or spare
- subseries — a group or a number of related or similar things, events, etc., arranged or occurring in temporal, spatial, or other order or succession; sequence.
- subsidies — a direct pecuniary aid furnished by a government to a private industrial undertaking, a charity organization, or the like.
- subsiding — to sink to a low or lower level.
- subsidise — to furnish or aid with a subsidy.
- subsidize — to furnish or aid with a subsidy.
- subsocial — without a definite social structure.
- subsoiler — one who operates a subsoil plow.
- subtility — subtlety.
- subtilize — to elevate in character; sublimate.
- subtitled — with dialogue on screen
- subtitles — a written translation superimposed on a film or television programme that has foreign dialogue
- subtorrid — subtropical (def 2).
- subursine — resembling a bear to some degree
- subwriter — a person carrying out writing tasks for another writer
- succubine — of or relating to a succubus
- sugarbird — any of various honeycreepers that feed on nectar.
- sunbright — as bright as the sun, very bright
- superbike — a high-performance motorcycle
- superbity — pride
- suribachi — an extinct volcano on Iwo Jima island: World War II battle 1945.
- sushi bar — restaurant serving Japanese rice dishes
- swinburne — Algernon Charles, 1837–1909, English poet and critic.
- swing-bin — a rubbish bin with a hinged lid, used esp in a kitchen or bathroom
- swingback — (especially in political affairs) a return or reversion, as to previous opinion, custom, or ideology: We must fight any swingback to isolationism.
- swingbeat — a type of modern dance music that combines soul, rhythm and blues, and hip-hop
- swingboat — a piece of fairground equipment consisting of a boat-shaped carriage for swinging in
- swordbill — a South American hummingbird, Ensifera ensifera, having a slender bill that is longer than its body.
- sybaritic — (usually lowercase) pertaining to or characteristic of a sybarite; characterized by or loving luxury or sensuous pleasure: to wallow in sybaritic splendor.
- syllabify — to form or divide into syllables.
- syllabism — the use of syllabic characters, as in writing.
- syllabize — to syllabify.
- symbionts — an organism living in a state of symbiosis.
- symbioses — Biology. the living together of two dissimilar organisms, as in mutualism, commensalism, amensalism, or parasitism. (formerly) mutualism (def 1).