11-letter words containing s, o, b, r
- 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.
- rumbustious — rambunctious.
- russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
- saburration — the use of heated sand in healing
- sacrolumbar — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
- 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
- sailboarder — windsurfer
- salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
- saprobiotic — saprobic
- sash ribbon — a strip of steel or aluminum alloy for connecting a vertically sliding window sash with a counterweight.
- scaberulous — tending to be scabrous or slightly rough to the touch
- scarabaeoid — resembling a scarab.
- scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
- 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.
- scribacious — having the tendency to write a lot or too much
- scrobicular — of or relating to the smooth areas on a sea urchin surrounding its nodules
- scrub round — to waive; avoid or ignore
- seam bowler — a fast bowler who makes the ball bounce on its seam so that it will change direction
- serbo-croat — Serbo-Croat is one of the languages spoken in the former Yugoslavia.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- slant board — a tiltable board that allows a person to lie with the feet higher than the head while doing exercises.
- 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.
- slumbersome — tired; sleepy
- smokey bear — an officer or officers of a state highway patrol.
- smorgasbord — a buffet meal of various hot and cold hors d'oeuvres, salads, casserole dishes, meats, cheeses, etc.
- snobography — an account or description of 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
- soap boiler — a manufacturer of soap
- soil binder — a plant that prevents or inhibits erosion by providing a ground cover and forming a dense network of roots that hold the soil.
- 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.
- soluble rna — a small RNA molecule, consisting of a strand of nucleotides folded into a clover-leaf shape, that picks up an unattached amino acid within the cell cytoplasm and conveys it to the ribosome for protein synthesis. Abbreviation: tRNA.
- somnambular — relating to sleep-walking
- sorbability — the ability of something to absorb
- sorbic acid — a white, crystalline compound, C 6 H 8 O 2 , slightly soluble in water, soluble in many organic solvents: used as a preservative in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and food.
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
- source book — an original writing, as a document, record, or diary, that supplies an authoritative basis for future writing, study, evaluation, etc.
- southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.