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12-letter words containing s, i, g, b

  • 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-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.
  • stuffing box — a device for preventing leakage of gases or liquids along a moving rod or shaft at the point at which it leaves a cylinder, tank, ship hull, etc.
  • sub-religion — a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
  • submicrogram — containing or relating to a mass of less than one microgram
  • substituting — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
  • surfboarding — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
  • survival bag — a large plastic bag carried by climbers for use in an emergency as protection against exposure
  • swing bridge — a bridge that can open by pivoting on a central pier to let vessels pass.
  • the dingbats — delirium tremens
  • timbrologist — a stamp-collector
  • truss bridge — a bridge in which the loads are supported by trusses.
  • ubangi-shari — former name of the Central African Republic.
  • unassignable — not able to be transferred
  • undigestible — indigestible.
  • undisturbing — not disturbing
  • unslumbering — not sleeping
  • unsubmitting — not submitting or submissive; not surrendering
  • upright bass — double bass
  • urbanologist — a sociologist specializing in urban life and problems
  • walking bass — (in jazz piano) a left-hand accompaniment consisting of a continuous rhythm of four beats to the measure, usually with a repetitive melodic pattern.
  • web designer — a person who plans, designs, creates, and often maintains websites.
  • web scraping — the extraction and copying of data from a website into a structured format using a computer program: Hackers pose a threat with techniques like web scraping. Our search engine uses web scraping to index sites.
  • weighbridges — Plural form of weighbridge.
  • williamsburg — a city in SE Virginia: colonial capital of Virginia; now restored to its original pre-Revolutionary style.
  • womb-leasing — bearing a child on behalf of a couple unable to have a child; surrogacy
  • youngberries — Plural form of youngberry.
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