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13-letter words containing t, b, o

  • secret ballot — a vote in which the confidentiality of how one votes is safeguarded.
  • self-begotten — a past participle of beget.
  • self-doubting — lacking in confidence
  • sensible note — the major seventh note of any scale
  • short subject — a short film, as a documentary or travelogue, shown as part of a program with a feature-length film.
  • shot-blasting — the cleaning of metal, etc, by a stream of shot
  • single combat — combat between two persons.
  • siphon bottle — a bottle for aerated water, fitted with a bent tube through the neck, the water being forced out, when a valve is opened, by the pressure on its surface of the gas accumulating within the bottle.
  • skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
  • snooze button — a button on an alarm clock that, if pressed when the alarm is going off, will suspend its ringing for a brief time before allowing it to go off again
  • snowball tree — any of several caprifoliaceous shrubs of the genus Viburnum, esp V. opulus var. roseum, a sterile cultivated variety with spherical clusters of white or pinkish flowers
  • sodium borate — borax1 .
  • solar battery — an array of solar cells, used as a source of electrical power.
  • solderability — the characteristic of being solderable
  • solvent abuse — Solvent abuse is the dangerous practice of breathing in the gases from substances such as glue in order to feel as if you are drunk.
  • sorbitization — the act of sorbitizing
  • sound blaster — (hardware)   The best known family of sound cards for the IBM PC from Creative Labs.
  • south arabian — of or relating to the former South Arabia (now South Yemen) or its inhabitants
  • south by east — a point on the compass 11°15′ east of south. Abbreviation: SbE.
  • south by west — a point on the compass 11°15′ west of south. Abbreviation: SbW.
  • southern blot — a procedure for identifying and measuring the amount of a specific DNA sequence or gene in a mixed extract, as in testing for a mutation or a virus: DNA strands from the person or organism under study are cut with restriction enzymes, separated by gel electrophoresis, transferred to special filter paper, and hybridized with a labeled DNA probe.
  • spermatoblast — a reproductive cell
  • spiny lobster — any of several edible crustaceans of the family Palinuridae, differing from the true lobsters in having a spiny shell and lacking the large pincers.
  • stabilization — the act or process of stabilizing or the state of being stabilized.
  • station break — an interval between or during programs for identifying the station, making announcements, etc.
  • status symbol — an object, habit, etc., by which the social or economic status of the possessor may be judged.
  • step aerobics — a set of aerobic exercises designed to improve the cardiovascular system, which consists of stepping on and off a special box of adjustable height
  • sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
  • stock buyback — buyback (def 3).
  • stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
  • stone boiling — a primitive method of boiling liquid with heated stones
  • stone bramble — a herbaceous Eurasian rosaceous plant, Rubus saxatilis, of stony places, having white flowers and berry-like scarlet fruits (drupelets)
  • store baggage — If a hotel stores baggage, it puts a guest's baggage in a storage room until it is needed by the guest.
  • streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
  • strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
  • strombuliform — in the shape of a coil
  • strong breeze — a wind of 25–30 miles per hour (11–13 m/sec).
  • sub-component — a constituent part; element; ingredient.
  • sub-political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
  • sub-questions — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
  • subadolescent — younger than or not quite adolescent
  • suballocation — an allocation made from a previous allocation
  • subbituminous — (of coal) dark brown to black and intermediate in rank between lignite and bituminous
  • subcategorize — to split into subcategories
  • subcinctorium — an embroidered silk vestment resembling, but somewhat broader than, a maniple, worn by the pope on solemn occasions.
  • subcollection — the act of collecting.
  • subcollegiate — of, relating to, or characteristic of subcollege students or a subcollege
  • subcontiguous — almost touching; nearly contiguous.
  • subcontinuous — almost but not quite continuous
  • subcontractor — Law. a person who or business that contracts to provide some service or material necessary for the performance of another's contract.
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