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11-letter words containing s, w, b

  • 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
  • snowballing — a ball of snow pressed or rolled together, as for throwing.
  • snowblading — the activity or sport of skiing with short skis (snowblades) and no poles
  • snowmobiler — a person who drives a snowmobile
  • spin bowler — a bowler who specializes in bowling balls with a spinning motion
  • swage block — an iron block containing holes and grooves of various sizes, used for heading bolts and shaping objects not easily worked on an anvil.
  • swallowable — to take into the stomach by drawing through the throat and esophagus with a voluntary muscular action, as food, drink, or other substances.
  • swamp barge — A swamp barge is a vessel used for offshore drilling in very shallow water, which is towed out and then rests on the bottom.
  • swamp blues — a style of slow blues originating in Louisiana
  • swamp buggy — an amphibious vehicle for use in and around swamps, typically having an automobile engine, four-wheel drive, large wheels with deep treads, and a raised chassis.
  • swansea bay — an inlet of the Bristol Channel, on which the port of Swansea stands
  • swashbuckle — to work, behave, or perform as a swashbuckler.
  • swear blind — to assert emphatically
  • sweat blood — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
  • sweet basil — any of several aromatic herbs belonging to the genus Ocimum, of the mint family, as O. basilicum (sweet basil) having purplish-green ovate leaves used in cooking.
  • sweet birch — a North American tree, Betula lenta, having smooth, blackish bark and twigs that are a source of methyl salicylate.
  • sweet herbs — sweet-smelling herbs that are grown specifically for cooking
  • sweet shrub — Carolina allspice.
  • sweetlambda — Sugared lambda-calculus(?).
  • switchblade — a pocketknife, the blade of which is held by a spring and can be released suddenly, as by pressing a button.
  • switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
  • swivelblock — a block that supports a swivel
  • swordbearer — an official who carries the sword of state on ceremonial occasions, as before the sovereign, a magistrate, or the like.
  • thumbs down — the short, thick, inner digit of the human hand, next to the forefinger.
  • thumbs-down — an act or instance of dissent, disapproval, etc.
  • tribeswoman — a female member of a tribe.
  • unbeknownst — unknown; unperceived; without one's knowledge (usually followed by to).
  • waffle slab — a reinforced-concrete floor and roof construction employing a square grid of deep ribs with coffers in the interstices.
  • waldsterben — the symptoms of tree decline in central Europe from the 1970s, considered to be caused by atmospheric pollution
  • walfish bay — Walvis Bay.
  • walking bus — a group of schoolchildren walking together along an agreed route to and from school, accompanied by adults, with children joining and leaving the group at prearranged points
  • warrensburg — a town in central Missouri.
  • washability — capable of being washed without shrinking, fading, or the like.
  • wastebasket — a standing basket for wastepaper, small items of trash, etc.
  • water brash — heartburn (def 1).
  • wattlebirds — Plural form of wattlebird.
  • weaverbirds — Plural form of weaverbird.
  • web address — Computers. URL (def 2).
  • web browser — a person or thing that browses.
  • web du bois — William Edward Burghardt [burg-hahrd] /ˈbɜrg hɑrd/ (Show IPA), 1868–1963, U.S. educator and writer.
  • web hosting — the business of providing various services, hardware, and software for websites, as storage and maintenance of site files on a server.
  • web spinner — any of several slender insects, of the order Embioptera, that nest in colonies in silken webs spun with secretions from the enlarged front legs.
  • webmeisters — Plural form of webmeister.
  • webmistress — a woman who designs and maintains a website.
  • websquatter — A person or company that engages in websquatting.
  • welsh black — a breed of black cattle originally from N Wales that are bred for both meat and milk
  • west bengal — a state in E India: formerly part of the province of Bengal. 33,805 sq. mi. (87,555 sq. km). Capital: Calcutta. Compare Bengal (def 1).
  • west berlinIrving, 1888–1989, U.S. songwriter.
  • westborough — a town in central Massachusetts.
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