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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.
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