12-letter words containing s, e, b, c
- rock lobster — spiny lobster.
- rubik's cube — a puzzle consisting of a cube with colored faces made of 26 smaller colored blocks attached to a spindle in the center, the object being to rotate the blocks until each face of the cube is a single color.
- sabermetrics — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- sacring bell — a small bell rung at the elevation of the Host and chalice during Mass
- saddle block — a type of spinal anaesthesia producing sensory loss in the buttocks, inner sides of the thighs, and perineum
- saint-brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
- sanctionable — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- sanctus bell — a bell rung during the celebration of Mass to call attention to the more solemn parts.
- scabbardless — lacking a scabbard or a sheath for a sword or dagger
- scatterbrain — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
- scent bottle — a bottle of perfume
- schussboomer — a skier who is skilled at schussing.
- scraperboard — scratchboard.
- scribblement — a scribble
- scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder
- scrive board — a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.
- scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
- sea cucumber — any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, having a long, leathery body with tentacles around the anterior end.
- sebacic acid — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble, dibasic acid, C 1 0 H 1 8 O 4 , usually obtained from castor oil: used chiefly in the manufacture of plasticizers and resins.
- secobarbital — a white, odorless, slightly bitter powder, C 1 2 H 1 8 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- section boss — the boss of a section gang.
- secunderabad — a city in N Andhra Pradesh, in central India, part of Hyderabad: a former British military cantonment.
- semantic web — an extension of the World Wide Web in which data is structured and XML-tagged on the basis of its meaning or content, so that computers can process and integrate the information without human intervention: the semantic Web acting as a global database or huge brain.
- semiabstract — of or relating to art or sculpture which is abstract but in which the subject can still be recognized
- service book — a book containing the forms of worship used in divine services.
- service club — any of several organizations dedicated to the growth and general welfare of its members and the community.
- serviceberry — the fruit of any service tree.
- silver birch — tree with silvery-white bark
- sketch-books — Also, sketchpad. a book or pad of drawing paper for sketches.
- sliced bread — bread: sold pre-sliced
- socializable — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- soldier crab — a small blue Australian estuarine crab of the Mictyris genus usually found in large numbers
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- specbaserate — A variant of SPECrate that reports "baseline" results, using stricter run rules. See SPECrate_base_fp92, SPECrate_base_int92.
- spinach beet — chard, a plant cultivated for its edible leaves
- star chamber — a former court of inquisitorial and criminal jurisdiction in England that sat without a jury and that became noted for its arbitrary methods and severe punishments, abolished 1641.
- stockbreeder — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
- straddleback — astride, on horseback
- sub-mediocre — of only ordinary or moderate quality; neither good nor bad; barely adequate: The car gets only mediocre mileage, but it's fun to drive. Synonyms: undistinguished, commonplace, pedestrian, everyday; run-of-the-mill. Antonyms: extraordinary, superior, uncommon, incomparable.
- subcelestial — being beneath the heavens; terrestrial.
- subcentrally — in a subcentral manner
- subcivilized — not quite civilized
- subcommittee — a secondary committee appointed out of a main committee.
- subcomponent — a constituent part; element; ingredient.
- subcontinent — a large, relatively self-contained landmass forming a subdivision of a continent: the subcontinent of India.
- subcutaneous — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
- subdeaconate — subdiaconate.
- subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
- subduplicate — of the square root of ratios