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11-letter words containing s, u, b, c, e

  • musclebound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
  • mussel crab — a pea crab, Pinnotheres maculatus, the female of which lives as a commensal within the mantle cavity of mussels.
  • nucleobases — Plural form of nucleobase.
  • obfusticate — Synonym of obfuscate.
  • obscurement — The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured.
  • obscureness — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
  • obscurities — Plural form of obscurity.
  • obstructive — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
  • outbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outbalance.
  • presbycusia — impaired hearing due to old age.
  • presbycusis — the gradual loss of acute hearing with advancing age
  • pubic louse — See under louse (def 1).
  • public sale — auction (def 1).
  • publicities — extensive mention in the news media or by word of mouth or other means of communication.
  • purchasable — capable of being bought.
  • putrescible — liable to become putrid.
  • quebecoises — a native or inhabitant of Quebec, especially one who is from the city of Quebec and whose native language is French.
  • res publica — the state, republic, or commonwealth
  • resubscribe — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
  • rust bucket — an old, run-down freighter, especially one whose hull is covered with rust.
  • saarbrucken — a state in W Germany, in the Saar River valley. 991 sq. mi. (2569 sq. km). Capital: Saarbrücken.
  • sauce bercy — Bercy.
  • scaberulous — tending to be scabrous or slightly rough to the touch
  • scrub nurse — a nurse specially trained to assist surgeons in the operating room and serving as part of the surgically clean medical team handling instruments during an operation.
  • scuba diver — sb who dives underwater
  • scuttlebutt — Nautical. an open cask of drinking water. a drinking fountain for use by the crew of a vessel.
  • scuzzbucket — Also called scuzzball [skuhz-bawl] /ˈskʌzˌbɔl/ (Show IPA), scuzzbucket [skuhz-buhk-it] /ˈskʌzˌbʌk ɪt/ (Show IPA). a dirty, grimy, sordid, or repulsive person or thing.
  • sea biscuit — ship biscuit; hardtack.
  • service bus — a public bus with a regular route
  • slop bucket — slop pail.
  • source book — an original writing, as a document, record, or diary, that supplies an authoritative basis for future writing, study, evaluation, etc.
  • spruce beer — a fermented beverage made with spruce leaves and twigs, or an extract from them.
  • static tube — a tube for measuring the static pressure of a fluid in motion, so placed in the fluid as not to be affected by the pressure changes caused by the motion of the fluid.
  • sub-article — a written composition in prose, usually nonfiction, on a specific topic, forming an independent part of a book or other publication, as a newspaper or magazine.
  • sub-charter — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
  • sub-clauses — Grammar. a syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence.
  • sub-culture — Bacteriology. to cultivate (a bacterial strain) again on a new medium.
  • sub-economy — thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc.
  • 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.
  • sub-species — A sub-species of a plant or animal is one of the types that a particular species is divided into.
  • sub-surface — below the surface, especially of a body of water.
  • subadjacent — lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the highway.
  • suballiance — a suborder or subdivision of an alliance
  • subcategory — a subordinate category or a division of a category.
  • subcellular — contained within a cell.
  • subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
  • subcultured — Bacteriology. to cultivate (a bacterial strain) again on a new medium.
  • subcurative — of a dosage which is not strong enough to have a curing effect
  • subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
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