12-letter words containing s, t, b, r
- scatterbrain — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
- scotch broom — the broom, Cytisus scoparius.
- scotch broth — a thick soup prepared from mutton, vegetables, and barley.
- scratchboard — a cardboard coated with impermeable white clay and covered by a layer of ink that is scratched or scraped in patterns revealing the white surface below.
- scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
- scratchbuilt — describing something which has been constructed by scratchbuilding
- scribblement — a scribble
- scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
- scrub typhus — an acute febrile disease characterized by severe headache, skin rash, chills, and swelling of the lymph nodes, caused by the bite of mites infected with the microorganism Rickettsia tsutsugamushi: occurs mainly in Asia, Australia, and the islands of the western Pacific
- scrutability — capable of being understood by careful study or investigation.
- secobarbital — a white, odorless, slightly bitter powder, C 1 2 H 1 8 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- semiabstract — of or relating to art or sculpture which is abstract but in which the subject can still be recognized
- separability — capable of being separated, parted, or dissociated.
- set store by — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- severability — capability of being separated, as of a clause in an agreement
- shareability — the state or property of being able to be shared
- shelter belt — a row of trees planted to protect an area from the wind
- short ballot — a ballot containing only candidates for the most important legislative and executive posts, leaving judicial and lesser administrative posts to be filled by appointment.
- skateboarder — person who rides skateboard
- slipper bath — a bath in the shape of a slipper, with a covered end
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- solitary bee — any of numerous bees, as the leaf-cutting bees, that do not live in a community.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- soul brother — a black male, especially a fellow black male.
- south arabia — Protectorate of, a former protectorate of Great Britain in S Arabia, now part of the Republic of Yemen.
- specbaserate — A variant of SPECrate that reports "baseline" results, using stricter run rules. See SPECrate_base_fp92, SPECrate_base_int92.
- sportability — suitability to be used in or as a sport
- square-built — sturdy and strong-looking
- stabat mater — (italics) a Latin hymn, composed in the 13th century, commemorating the sorrows of the Virgin Mary at the Cross.
- stabilimeter — stabilograph.
- stabilizator — a stabilizer
- stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
- standardbred — one of an American breed of trotting and pacing horses used chiefly for harness racing.
- star chamber — a former court of inquisitorial and criminal jurisdiction in England that sat without a jury and that became noted for its arbitrary methods and severe punishments, abolished 1641.
- stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
- steam boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- steam-boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- steel lumber — metal lumber composed of sheet steel.
- steerability — to guide the course of (something in motion) by a rudder, helm, wheel, etc.: to steer a bicycle.
- stirrup bone — the stapes, one of the three bones of the middle ear
- stockbreeder — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
- stockbroking — business of buying and selling stock
- stone bruise — a bruise on the sole of the foot, caused by walking on or striking against a small stone or other hard object.
- stonebreaker — a person that breaks up stone
- storage tube — an electron tube in which information is stored as charges for a predetermined time
- store-bought — commercially made rather than homemade.
- stork's-bill — Also called heron's-bill. any of various plants belonging to the genus Erodium, of the geranium family, having deeply lobed leaves, loose clusters of pink, purple, white, or yellow flowers, and long, slender fruit.
- straddleback — astride, on horseback
- straight bat — a bat held vertically