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11-letter words containing s, o, b, i, n, g

  • sailboating — the sport of using a sailing boat
  • schrödinbug — (jargon, programming)   /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
  • signal book — a book containing the signals to be used for sending messages to other boats
  • 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.
  • smoking ban — the prohibition of smoking cigarettes, etc in public places
  • snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
  • snowballing — a ball of snow pressed or rolled together, as for throwing.
  • snowblading — the activity or sport of skiing with short skis (snowblades) and no poles
  • soil boring — Soil boring is a technique used to survey soil by taking several shallow cores out of the sediment. It is used when a drilling jacket or jack-up rig is to be supported on the soil.
  • soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
  • springboard — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • stringboard — a board or facing covering the ends of the steps in a staircase.
  • subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
  • subpoenaing — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
  • subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
  • symbolizing — to be a symbol of; stand for or represent in the manner of a symbol.
  • tombstoning — the activity of diving off cliffs into the sea
  • unambiguous — not ambiguous, or unclear; distinct; unequivocal: The object of the experiment was to reach an unambiguous conclusion about climate change.
  • unobserving — not observing
  • web hosting — the business of providing various services, hardware, and software for websites, as storage and maintenance of site files on a server.
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