13-letter words containing s, b, c
- saint columba — Padraic [paw-drik] /ˈpɔ drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1881–1972, Irish poet and dramatist, in the U.S. from 1914.
- saint-brieucs — a city in and the capital of the Côtes-du-Nord, in W France.
- saleleaseback — leaseback.
- san cristobal — a city in SW Venezuela.
- sandwich beam — flitch beam.
- satanic abuse — sexual abuse (esp of children), killing, or violent acts considered to be carried out as part of satanic worship rituals
- savoy cabbage — a variety of cabbage having a compact head of crinkled, blistered leaves.
- sawbuck table — a table that has X -shaped legs.
- scabbard fish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
- school phobia — a fear of going to or returning to school
- schreibersite — a mineral, iron-nickel phosphide, (Fe, Ni) 3 P, found only in meteorites.
- scotch bonnet — a small, irregularly shaped, extremely hot chili pepper, the fruit of a variety of Capsicum chinense related to the habanero and ranging from yellow to red.
- scrambled egg — eggs stirred while cooking
- scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
- scythian lamb — a fern, Cibotium barometz, of southeastern Asia, having stalks covered with shaggy, brownish hair and large, feathery leaves, formerly believed to be a source of vegetable wool.
- sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
- second ballot — an electoral procedure in which if no candidate emerges as a clear winner in a first ballot, candidates at the bottom of the poll are eliminated and another ballot is held among the remaining candidates
- second banana — a comic who supports the leading comedian, often as a straight man, especially in burlesque or vaudeville.
- secret ballot — a vote in which the confidentiality of how one votes is safeguarded.
- selectability — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
- semi-abstract — pertaining to or designating a style of painting or sculpture in which the subject remains recognizable although the forms are highly stylized in a manner derived from abstract art.
- semicarbazide — an organic nitrogen compound derived from urea
- semicarbazone — a product that occurs as a result of aldehyde or ketone reacting with semicarbazide
- service break — an instance of a player winning a game against a server.
- shambolically — in a completely disorganized or chaotic manner
- shark biscuit — a bodyboard
- she-crab soup — a thick, bisquelike soup made with the meat and eggs of the female crab.
- shingle beach — a beach made of a mass of small pieces of rough stone
- short subject — a short film, as a documentary or travelogue, shown as part of a program with a feature-length film.
- single combat — combat between two persons.
- sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
- skunk cabbage — a low, fetid, broad-leaved North American plant, Symplocarpus foetidus, of the arum family, having a brownish-purple and green mottled spathe surrounding a stout spadix, growing in moist ground.
- slimming club — a group of people who meet regularly and are all trying to lose weight
- smoke chamber — an enlarged area between the throat of a fireplace and the chimney flue.
- social phobia — a type of anxiety disorder characterized by shyness and heightened self-consciousness in particular social situations
- sonic barrier — sound barrier.
- space biology — exobiology.
- space blanket — a plastic insulating body wrapping coated on one or both sides with aluminium foil which reflects back most of the body heat lost by radiation: carried by climbers, mountaineers, etc, for use in cases of exposure or exhaustion
- spark chamber — a device for detecting elementary particles, consisting of a series of charged plates separated by a gas so that the passage of a charged particle causes sparking between adjacent plates.
- specbase_fp92 — A variant of SPECfp92 that reports "baseline" results, using stricter run rules.
- speech bubble — cartoon: spoken text in a balloon
- spruce beetle — a beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis, that feeds on and nests in spruce, pine, and other evergreen trees, sometimes causing extensive damage.
- state chamber — a room for public ceremonies and celebrations.
- step aerobics — a set of aerobic exercises designed to improve the cardiovascular system, which consists of stepping on and off a special box of adjustable height
- sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
- stock buyback — buyback (def 3).
- stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
- streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
- strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
- sub-component — a constituent part; element; ingredient.