11-letter words containing o, r, i, b, s
- ship-broker — a person who acts for a shipowner by getting cargo and passengers for his ships and also handling insurance and other matters
- silver book — (publication) Jensen and Wirth's infamous "Pascal User Manual and Report", so called because of the silver cover of the widely distributed Springer-Verlag second edition of 1978 (ISBN 0-387-90144-2). See also book titles, Pascal.
- 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.
- snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
- snowmobiler — a person who drives a snowmobile
- soap boiler — a manufacturer of soap
- 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.
- sorbability — the ability of something to absorb
- sorbic acid — a white, crystalline compound, C 6 H 8 O 2 , slightly soluble in water, soluble in many organic solvents: used as a preservative in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and food.
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
- southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- spin bowler — a bowler who specializes in bowling balls with a spinning motion
- springboard — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- stereobatic — relating to or resembling a stereobate
- stereoblind — lacking the ability to see in three dimensions through both eyes
- sternotribe — (of a flower) having contact with the sternum of an insect
- stilbestrol — a nonsteroidal synthetic estrogen, C 18 H 20 O 2 , used in medicine chiefly in the treatment of menopausal symptoms and in animal feeds for chemical caponization: formerly used during pregnancy for the prevention of miscarriage but discontinued owing to its association with an increased risk of vaginal and cervical cancers in women having had fetal exposure. Abbreviation: DES.
- storability — capable of being stored for considerable time without loss of freshness or usability.
- stourbridge — an industrial town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 480 (2001)
- 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.
- subacromial — the outward end of the spine of the scapula or shoulder blade.
- subarration — an ancient way of marrying by giving a ring or gift
- subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
- subcortical — situated beneath the cortex.
- subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
- 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.
- sublittoral — of or relating to the biogeographic region of the ocean bottom between the littoral and bathyal zones, from the low water line to the edge of the continental shelf, or to a depth of approximately 660 feet (200 meters).
- subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
- subordinary — any of several heraldic bearings of secondary importance to the ordinary, such as the lozenge, the orle, and the fret
- subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- subornation — to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
- subprioress — a nun junior to a prioress
- subrational — less than or almost rational.
- subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
- subtropical — bordering on the tropics; nearly tropical.
- subvitreous — of the nature of or resembling glass, as in transparency, brittleness, hardness, glossiness, etc.: vitreous china.
- switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
- taboparesis — the occurrence of two conditions (general paresis and tabes dorsalis) at the same time
- tibiotarsus — the main bone of the leg of a bird, between the femur and tarsometatarsus, formed by the fusion of several tarsal bones with the tibia.
- torsibility — resistance to torsion.
- torsion bar — a metal bar having elasticity when subjected to torsion: used as a spring in various machines and in automobile suspensions.
- trailbaston — a judging commission first created by Edward I of England which punished crimes and trespass
- transphobia — unreasoning hostility, aversion, etc., toward transgender people.
- tribeswoman — a female member of a tribe.