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11-letter words containing o, s, b, r

  • space probe — Aerospace. an unmanned spacecraft designed to explore the solar system and transmit data back to earth.
  • spin bowler — a bowler who specializes in bowling balls with a spinning motion
  • splashboard — a board, guard, or screen to protect from splashing, as a dashboard of a vehicle or a guard placed over a wheel to intercept water, dirt, etc.
  • spoon bread — Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a baked dish made with cornmeal, milk, eggs, and shortening, served as an accompaniment to meat.
  • springboard — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • stable door — a door with an upper and lower leaf that may be opened separately
  • step reebok — a set of aerobic exercises designed to improve the cardiovascular system, which consists of stepping on and off a special box of adjustable height
  • stepbrother — one's stepfather's son or stepmother's son by a previous marriage.
  • 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.
  • stockbroker — a broker, especially one employed by a member firm of a stock exchange, who buys and sells stocks and other securities for customers.
  • stockjobber — a stock salesperson, especially one who sells or promotes worthless securities.
  • stone broke — having no money whatsoever.
  • stone-broke — having no money whatsoever.
  • stony brook — a town in N Long Island, in SE New York.
  • stony-broke — completely without money; penniless
  • stoop labor — the physical labor associated with the cultivation or picking of crops in farm fields, especially as performed by poorly paid, unskilled workers.
  • storability — capable of being stored for considerable time without loss of freshness or usability.
  • store brand — an item offered for sale under a store's own label.
  • 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.
  • stroboscope — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
  • 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.
  • sub-product — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
  • sub-project — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
  • subacromial — the outward end of the spine of the scapula or shoulder blade.
  • subarboreal — living or thriving under trees
  • subarration — an ancient way of marrying by giving a ring or gift
  • subcategory — a subordinate category or a division of a category.
  • subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
  • subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
  • subcolumnar — almost or imperfectly columnar.
  • subcontract — a contract by which one agrees to render services or to provide materials necessary for the performance of another contract.
  • subcontrary — one of two propositions that can both be true but cannot both be false.
  • subcortical — situated beneath the cortex.
  • subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
  • subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
  • subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
  • subglobular — globe-shaped; spherical.
  • 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
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