11-letter words containing s, o, b, u
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- sub-company — subsidiary company.
- sub-economy — thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc.
- sub-optimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
- sub-product — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
- sub-project — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- sub-society — an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.
- subacromial — the outward end of the spine of the scapula or shoulder blade.
- subarboreal — living or thriving under trees
- subarration — an ancient way of marrying by giving a ring or gift
- subaudition — an act or instance of understanding or mentally supplying something not expressed.
- subcategory — a subordinate category or a division of a category.
- subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
- subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- subcolumnar — almost or imperfectly columnar.
- subcontract — a contract by which one agrees to render services or to provide materials necessary for the performance of another contract.
- subcontrary — one of two propositions that can both be true but cannot both be false.
- subcortical — situated beneath the cortex.
- subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
- subdecision — a decision secondary to a main decision
- subdiaconal — of or relating to a subdeacon.
- subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
- subdivision — the act or fact of subdividing.
- subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
- subeconomic — pertaining to the production, distribution, and use of income, wealth, and commodities.
- subemployed — of or relating to workers affected by subemployment
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- subglobular — globe-shaped; spherical.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- subincision — the slitting of the underside of the penis to the urethra, performed as a puberty rite among some tribal peoples, especially in Australia.
- subitaneous — sudden
- subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
- subjunction — an act of subjoining.
- sublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- sublittoral — of or relating to the biogeographic region of the ocean bottom between the littoral and bathyal zones, from the low water line to the edge of the continental shelf, or to a depth of approximately 660 feet (200 meters).
- subluxation — a partial dislocation, as of a joint; sprain.
- submolecule — a part of a molecule
- submunition — a weapon forming part of a larger warhead and released from it at a target
- subnational — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
- subnotebook — a laptop computer smaller and lighter than a notebook, typically weighing less than 5 pounds (2.3 kg).
- suboptimize — to use in a way that is less than optimal
- subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
- subordinary — any of several heraldic bearings of secondary importance to the ordinary, such as the lozenge, the orle, and the fret
- subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- subornation — to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
- subpanation — the belief that the body and blood of Christ are present in the bread and wine of Communion
- 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.
- subprioress — a nun junior to a prioress
- subrational — less than or almost rational.