11-letter words containing s, o, b, u
- ombrogenous — (of plants) able to flourish in wet conditions
- ombudswoman — a woman employed to investigate complaints against government or institutional officials, employers, etc.
- ombudswomen — Plural form of ombudswoman.
- opprobrious — conveying or expressing opprobrium, as language or a speaker: opprobrious invectives.
- orbicularis — a muscle surrounding an opening
- outbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outbalance.
- outer banks — chain of long, narrow, sandy islands, along the coast of N.C.
- overblouses — Plural form of overblouse.
- overburdens — Plural form of overburden.
- overobvious — too obvious
- parabolanus — a member of an early Christian brotherhood in Alexandria and Constantinople who helped the sick in the times of plague
- post-bellum — of or during the period after a war, esp the American Civil War
- postcubital — Anatomy, Zoology. pertaining to, involving, or situated near the cubitus.
- postpuberty — the period after puberty
- probusiness — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- protrusible — able to be thrust outwards
- pubic louse — See under louse (def 1).
- push-button — operated by or as if by push buttons: push-button tuning.
- quebecoises — a native or inhabitant of Quebec, especially one who is from the city of Quebec and whose native language is French.
- rhabdovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, including the rabies virus.
- rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
- 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.
- saul bellow — Saul, 1915–2005, U.S. novelist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize in Literature 1976.
- scaberulous — tending to be scabrous or slightly rough to the touch
- 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.
- scottsbluff — a city in W Nebraska, on the North Platte River.
- 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
- shogun bond — a bond sold on the Japanese market by a foreign institution and denominated in a foreign currency
- slop bucket — slop pail.
- slumbersome — tired; sleepy
- soap bubble — a bubble of soapsuds.
- soap-bubble — a bubble of soapsuds.
- social club — A social club is a club where members go in order to meet each other and enjoy leisure activities.
- 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
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
- sound block — a small block of wood for rapping with a gavel.
- 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.
- spouted bed — A spouted bed is a bed in which the particles are quite big, and contact only happens in an upward movement of fluid in the middle of the bed.
- squeeze-box — a concertina or accordion.
- statcoulomb — the electrostatic unit of a quantity of electricity, equivalent to 3.3356 × 10 −10 coulomb and equal to the quantity of charge transferred in one second across a conductor in which there is a constant current of one statampere.
- stop button — (on a DVD player, cassette recorder, etc) the off switch
- stourbridge — an industrial town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 480 (2001)