12-letter words containing s, e, t, o, r, b
- sandbox tree — a tropical American tree, Hura crepitans, of the spurge family, bearing a furrowed, roundish fruit about the size of an orange that when ripe and dry bursts with a sharp report and scatters the seeds.
- scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
- 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.
- set store by — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- skateboarder — person who rides skateboard
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- solitary bee — any of numerous bees, as the leaf-cutting bees, that do not live in a community.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- soul brother — a black male, especially a fellow black male.
- steam boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- steam-boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- stirrup bone — the stapes, one of the three bones of the middle ear
- stockbreeder — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
- stone bruise — a bruise on the sole of the foot, caused by walking on or striking against a small stone or other hard object.
- stonebreaker — a person that breaks up stone
- storage tube — an electron tube in which information is stored as charges for a predetermined time
- store-bought — commercially made rather than homemade.
- strobe light — 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.
- strobe tuner — an electronic instrument tuner that uses stroboscopic light
- strobe-light — 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.
- stubbornness — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
- sub-attorney — a lawyer; attorney-at-law.
- sub-mortgage — a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
- subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
- suberization — the impregnation of cell walls with suberin, causing the formation of cork.
- subfeudatory — of or relating to subfeu
- subinspector — a secondary or assistant inspector
- subintroduce — to introduce subtly
- subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- subthreshold — (of a stimulus) too weak to produce a response.
- surmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- the bosporus — a strait between European and Asian Turkey, linking the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
- the brownies — (in the US) the junior division of the Girl Scouts, usually for girls six to eight years old
- the sorbonne — a part of the University of Paris containing the faculties of science and literature: founded in 1253 by Robert de Sorbon as a theological college; given to the university in 1808
- the troubles — political unrest or public disturbances
- thermostable — capable of being subjected to a moderate degree of heat without loss of characteristic properties, as certain toxins and enzymes (opposed to thermolabile).
- torres bodet — Jaime [hahy-me] /ˈhaɪ mɛ/ (Show IPA), 1902–74, Mexican poet, statesman, and diplomat.
- transfer box — A transfer box is a gear system that divides the power between the front and rear axles of a four-wheel drive system.
- transponible — capable of being transposed.
- tribespeople — members of a tribe; people living a tribal lifestyle
- trouble spot — an area in which trouble exists or is expected to develop: There are several diplomatic trouble spots in Central America.
- troubleshoot — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
- tuberculosed — tuberculous
- tuberculosis — an infectious disease that may affect almost any tissue of the body, especially the lungs, caused by the organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and characterized by tubercles.
- tuberiferous — bearing or producing tubers
- tubuliferous — bearing or made up of tubules.
- union buster — any of a group of persons hired by a company to disperse picketers, end a strike or job action, etc., especially by violence or intimidation.
- unobstructed — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- unrestorable — to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish: to restore order.