9-letter words containing l, s, b
- slabstone — a paving stone in the form of a slab; flagstone
- slam-bang — with noisy violence: He drove slam-bang through the garage door.
- slap bang — exactly
- slap bass — a rock or jazz style of playing the electric or double bass in which the strings are plucked and released so as to vibrate sharply against the fretboard or fingerboard
- slap-bang — slam-bang.
- slat back — a chair back having two or more horizontal slats between upright posts.
- sleazebag — a sleazy person; sleaze.
- slice bar — a long-handled instrument with a blade at the end, for clearing away or breaking up clinkers, coal, etc., in a furnace.
- 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.
- slop bowl — a bowl into which the dregs from tea cups are emptied at table
- slow burn — a gradual building up of anger, as opposed to an immediate outburst: I did a slow burn as the conversation progressed.
- slumbered — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- smellable — to perceive the odor or scent of through the nose by means of the olfactory nerves; inhale the odor of: I smell something burning.
- sniffable — capable of being sniffed
- snowblade — one of a pair of short skis used without poles
- snowblink — a white luminosity on the underside of clouds, caused by the reflection of light from a snow surface.
- snowglobe — a transparent sphere filled with water and white particles which, when shaken, resemble snow falling
- sobbingly — in a sobbing manner
- soderblom — Nathan, 1866–1931, Swedish theologian: Nobel Peace Prize 1930.
- 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
- soup bowl — a container in which soup is served
- sow-belly — fat salt pork taken from the belly of a hog.
- spareable — to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
- speakable — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- speedball — a game similar to soccer with the chief difference that a player catching the ball on the fly can pass it with the hands.
- spellbind — to hold or bind by or as if by a spell; enchant; entrance; fascinate.
- spendable — available for spending.
- 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.
- sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
- spottable — a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- squabbled — to engage in a petty quarrel.
- 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.
- stableboy — a person who works in a stable.
- stableman — a person who works in a stable.
- stackable — capable of being stacked, especially easily: stackable chairs.
- stageable — (of a play, musical, etc) capable of or suitable for being staged
- stealable — to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force: A pickpocket stole his watch.