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

  • protrusible — able to be thrust outwards
  • pubic louse — See under louse (def 1).
  • pyrolysable — able to be pyrolysed
  • quebecoises — a native or inhabitant of Quebec, especially one who is from the city of Quebec and whose native language is French.
  • rebroadcast — to broadcast again from the same station.
  • responsible — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
  • responsibly — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
  • rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
  • robbinsdale — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • robespierre — Maximilien François Marie Isidore de [mak-see-mee-lyan frahn-swa ma-ree ee-zee-dawr duh] /mak si miˈlyɛ̃ frɑ̃ˈswa maˈri i ziˈdɔr də/ (Show IPA), 1758–94, French lawyer and revolutionary leader.
  • rooibos tea — tea prepared from any of several species of Borbonia or Aspalanthus, believed to have tonic properties
  • rose beetle — rose chafer.
  • 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
  • safety bolt — a bolt or lock on a door or gate that cannot be moved from the outside
  • sailboarder — windsurfer
  • salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
  • sample book — a number of pieces of fabric, wallpaper, etc fastened together at one edge, for people to examine when trying to choose which example to buy
  • saul bellowSaul, 1915–2005, U.S. novelist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize in Literature 1976.
  • scaberulous — tending to be scabrous or slightly rough to the touch
  • scarabaeoid — resembling a scarab.
  • sealed book — something beyond understanding and therefore unknown.
  • seam bowler — a fast bowler who makes the ball bounce on its seam so that it will change direction
  • second base — the second in order of the bases from home plate.
  • second best — the next to the best in performance, achievement, craftsmanship, etc.
  • second-best — the next to the best in performance, achievement, craftsmanship, etc.
  • serbo-croat — Serbo-Croat is one of the languages spoken in the former Yugoslavia.
  • set-top box — television signal converter
  • shacklebone — the wrist
  • shcherbakov — a former name (1946–57) of Andropov.
  • ship-broker — a person who acts for a shipowner by getting cargo and passengers for his ships and also handling insurance and other matters
  • shopbreaker — a robber who breaks into a shop
  • shovel beak — a deformity of the beak in intensively reared chicks
  • shovelboard — the game of shuffleboard.
  • 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.
  • single bond — a chemical linkage consisting of one covalent bond between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by one line or two vertical dots, as C–H or C:H.
  • skatemobile — a scooterlike vehicle built of boxes, boards, or the like, and mounted on skate wheels.
  • sketch book — a collection of essays and stories (1819–20) by Washington Irving.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • slop bucket — slop pail.
  • slumbersome — tired; sleepy
  • smell blood — sense a chance for victory
  • smokey bear — an officer or officers of a state highway patrol.
  • snob appeal — the attributes of something that appeal to people who associate those qualities with social or intellectual superiority; a thing's attractiveness to snobs.
  • snow banner — snow being blown off a mountaintop.
  • snow blower — a motor-driven machine on wheels used to remove snow by throwing it into the air and to one side.
  • snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
  • snowmobiler — a person who drives a snowmobile
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