11-letter words containing t, a, s, b
- substantial — of ample or considerable amount, quantity, size, etc.: a substantial sum of money.
- substantive — a noun.
- substractor — a person who subtracts or takes away
- subtacksman — a renter who holds the property they rent by subletting it
- subterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
- subtractive — tending to subtract; having power to subtract.
- subtreasury — a subordinate or branch treasury.
- subtropical — bordering on the tropics; nearly tropical.
- subungulate — any member of the superorder of animal termed Subungulata (also called Paenungulata), containing the elephant, sea cow and hyrax, as well as two extinct orders
- suburbanite — a person who lives in a suburb of a city or large town.
- subvertical — being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
- sucker bait — an enticement calculated to lure a person into a scheme in which he or she may be victimized.
- suitability — such as to suit; appropriate; fitting; becoming.
- summability — the quality of being summable
- sunday best — Sunday clothes.
- supportable — capable of being supported; endurable; maintainable.
- surrebuttal — the giving of evidence to meet a defendant's rebuttal.
- surtarbrand — deposits of brown coal embedded in Iceland lava
- suspectable — that could be suspected
- sustainable — capable of being supported or upheld, as by having its weight borne from below.
- sustainably — in a way that allows for continual use of a natural resource without depleting it or causing environmental damage: sustainably grown coffee.
- svarabhakti — the process of inserting vowel sounds into a consonant cluster, as in a loanword to make it conform to the pattern of the speaker's language and, hence, more easily pronounceable, as in the Italian pronunciation [lahn-tsee-ke-nek-kaw] /ˌlɑn tsi kɛˈnɛk kɔ/ (Show IPA) for German Landsknecht [lahnts-knekht] /ˈlɑntsˌknɛxt/ (Show IPA).
- 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.
- 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.
- syllabicate — to syllabify.
- syllabicity — the state of being syllabic; the ability to form a syllable.
- szombathely — a city in W Hungary: founded a.d. 48.
- tabernacles — any place or house of worship, especially one designed for a large congregation.
- table stake — a stake that a player places on the table at the beginning of a game that may not be changed once the deal begins.
- table sugar — granulated white sugar.
- taboparesis — the occurrence of two conditions (general paresis and tabes dorsalis) at the same time
- tabula rasa — a mind not yet affected by experiences, impressions, etc.
- tabularised — to tabulate.
- tankbusting — the practice of destroying tanks
- tarim basin — a region in W China between the Tien Shan and Kunlun mountain ranges. About 350,000 sq. mi. (906,000 sq. km).
- tea biscuit — a small, round, soft biscuit, usually shortened and sweetened.
- tennis ball — a hollow ball used in tennis, made of rubber with a fuzzy covering of woven Dacron, nylon, or wool.
- testability — the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
- the bahamas — a group of over 700 coral islands (about 20 of which are inhabited) in the Caribbean: a British colony from 1783 until 1964; an independent nation within the Commonwealth from 1973. Language: English. Currency: Bahamian dollar. Capital: Nassau. Pop: 319 031 (2013 est). Area: 13 939 sq km (5381 sq miles)
- the baptist — John the Baptist
- the gorbals — a district of Glasgow, formerly known for its slums
- thereabouts — about or near that place or time: last June or thereabout.
- thrasybulus — died c389 b.c, Athenian patriot and general.
- thumb glass — a drinking glass having external indentations to allow it to be firmly grasped.
- tibiotarsus — the main bone of the leg of a bird, between the femur and tarsometatarsus, formed by the fusion of several tarsal bones with the tibia.
- tidal basin — an artificial body of water open to a river, stream, etc., subject to tidal action.