11-letter words containing i, n, o, b, s
- probusiness — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- responsible — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
- responsibly — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
- robbinsdale — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- saburration — the use of heated sand in healing
- sailboating — the sport of using a sailing boat
- saltimbanco — a charlatan or fake
- sash ribbon — a strip of steel or aluminum alloy for connecting a vertically sliding window sash with a counterweight.
- 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.
- 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.
- signal book — a book containing the signals to be used for sending messages to other boats
- single bond — a chemical linkage consisting of one covalent bond between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by one line or two vertical dots, as C–H or C:H.
- skinner box — a box used in experiments in animal learning, especially in operant conditioning, equipped with a mechanism that automatically gives the animal food or other reward or permits escape, as by opening a door.
- smoking ban — the prohibition of smoking cigarettes, etc in public places
- snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
- snowballing — a ball of snow pressed or rolled together, as for throwing.
- snowblading — the activity or sport of skiing with short skis (snowblades) and no poles
- snowmobiler — a person who drives a snowmobile
- soil binder — a plant that prevents or inhibits erosion by providing a ground cover and forming a dense network of roots that hold the soil.
- soil boring — Soil boring is a technique used to survey soil by taking several shallow cores out of the sediment. It is used when a drilling jacket or jack-up rig is to be supported on the soil.
- sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
- soybean oil — a pale-yellow oil derived from soybeans by expression or solvent extraction: used as a food and in the manufacture of soap, candles, inks, paints, varnishes, etc.
- spin bowler — a bowler who specializes in bowling balls with a spinning motion
- splint bone — one of the rudimentary, splintlike metacarpal or metatarsal bones of the horse or some allied animal, one on each side of the back of each cannon bone.
- springboard — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- stenobathic — of or relating to marine or freshwater life that can tolerate only limited changes in depth (opposed to eurybathic).
- stereoblind — lacking the ability to see in three dimensions through both eyes
- sternotribe — (of a flower) having contact with the sternum of an insect
- stone-blind — completely blind.
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- stringboard — a board or facing covering the ends of the steps in a staircase.
- strombolian — relating to or denoting a type of volcanic eruption characterized by repeated fountaining or jetting of fluid lava into the air
- sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- subarration — an ancient way of marrying by giving a ring or gift
- subaudition — an act or instance of understanding or mentally supplying something not expressed.
- subdecision — a decision secondary to a main decision
- subdiaconal — of or relating to a subdeacon.
- subdivision — the act or fact of subdividing.
- subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
- subeconomic — pertaining to the production, distribution, and use of income, wealth, and commodities.
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- subincision — the slitting of the underside of the penis to the urethra, performed as a puberty rite among some tribal peoples, especially in Australia.
- subitaneous — sudden
- subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
- subjunction — an act of subjoining.
- sublimation — Psychology. the diversion of 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.
- subluxation — a partial dislocation, as of a joint; sprain.
- submunition — a weapon forming part of a larger warhead and released from it at a target