11-letter words containing r, a, b, o
- rowing boat — rowboat.
- royal burgh — (in Scotland) a burgh that was established by a royal charter granted directly by the sovereign
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
- saburration — the use of heated sand in healing
- sacrolumbar — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
- safe harbor — a harbor considered safe for a ship, as in wartime or during a storm at sea.
- safe-blower — a person who uses explosives to open safes and rob them
- sailboarder — windsurfer
- salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
- saprobiotic — saprobic
- sash ribbon — a strip of steel or aluminum alloy for connecting a vertically sliding window sash with a counterweight.
- scaberulous — tending to be scabrous or slightly rough to the touch
- scarabaeoid — resembling a scarab.
- scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
- scribacious — having the tendency to write a lot or too much
- scrobicular — of or relating to the smooth areas on a sea urchin surrounding its nodules
- seam bowler — a fast bowler who makes the ball bounce on its seam so that it will change direction
- serbo-croat — Serbo-Croat is one of the languages spoken in the former Yugoslavia.
- shcherbakov — a former name (1946–57) of Andropov.
- shopbreaker — a robber who breaks into a shop
- shovelboard — the game of shuffleboard.
- slant board — a tiltable board that allows a person to lie with the feet higher than the head while doing exercises.
- slave labor — persons, especially a large group, performing labor under duress or threats, as prisoners in a concentration camp; a labor force of slaves or slavelike prisoners.
- sleeveboard — a small-scale ironing board for pressing sleeves, especially a narrow board that fits inside a coat sleeve.
- smokey bear — an officer or officers of a state highway patrol.
- smorgasbord — a buffet meal of various hot and cold hors d'oeuvres, salads, casserole dishes, meats, cheeses, etc.
- snobography — an account or description of snobs
- snow banner — snow being blown off a mountaintop.
- soap boiler — a manufacturer of soap
- soluble rna — a small RNA molecule, consisting of a strand of nucleotides folded into a clover-leaf shape, that picks up an unattached amino acid within the cell cytoplasm and conveys it to the ribosome for protein synthesis. Abbreviation: tRNA.
- somnambular — relating to sleep-walking
- 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
- space probe — Aerospace. an unmanned spacecraft designed to explore the solar system and transmit data back to earth.
- 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
- stereobatic — relating to or resembling a stereobate
- 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.
- 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
- 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.