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

  • post-bellum — of or during the period after a war, esp the American Civil War
  • postpuberty — the period after puberty
  • protrusible — able to be thrust outwards
  • publicities — extensive mention in the news media or by word of mouth or other means of communication.
  • publishment — publication.
  • putrescible — liable to become putrid.
  • quatre bras — a village in central Belgium, near Brussels: battle preliminary to the battle of Waterloo fought here 1815.
  • raster burn — 1. (Or terminal illness) Eyestrain brought on by too many hours of looking at low-resolution, poorly tuned, or glare-ridden monitors, especially graphics monitors. 2. The "burn-in" condition your CRT tends to get if you don't use a screen saver.
  • rattle-bush — blue false indigo.
  • reusability — reuse
  • rumble seat — Also called, British, dickey. a seat recessed into the back of a coupe or roadster, covered by a hinged lid that opens to form the back of the seat when in use.
  • rust bucket — an old, run-down freighter, especially one whose hull is covered with rust.
  • sauerbraten — a pot roast of beef, marinated before cooking in a mixture of vinegar, sugar, and seasonings.
  • 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.
  • shaftesbury — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of, 1621–83, English statesman.
  • shea butter — a solid, greenish, yellowish, or whitish fat derived from the seeds of the shea tree, used for food and in the manufacture of soaps and candles.
  • shutter-bug — an amateur photographer, especially one who is greatly devoted to the hobby.
  • shuttle bus — a bus that travels regularly between two places
  • slop bucket — slop pail.
  • southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
  • spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
  • spouted bed — A spouted bed is a bed in which the particles are quite big, and contact only happens in an upward movement of fluid in the middle of the bed.
  • staggerbush — an ericaceous deciduous shrub, Lyonia mariana, of E North America, having white or pinkish flowers: it is poisonous to livestock
  • 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.
  • steeplebush — the hardhack.
  • stourbridge — an industrial town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 480 (2001)
  • strike dumb — to amaze; astound; astonish
  • strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
  • 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-culture — Bacteriology. to cultivate (a bacterial strain) again on a new medium.
  • sub-project — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
  • sub-segment — a part or division of a segment.
  • sub-society — an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.
  • subadditive — something that is added, as one substance to another, to alter or improve the general quality or to counteract undesirable properties: an additive that thins paint.
  • subadjacent — lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the highway.
  • subaffluent — between poor and affluent
  • subbasement — a basement or one of a series of basements below the main basement of a building.
  • subcategory — a subordinate category or a division of a category.
  • 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
  • subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
  • subindicate — to indirectly indicate or hint
  • subinfluent — an organism that has a lesser effect than an influent on the ecological processes within a community.
  • subinterval — an interval that is a subset of a given interval.
  • subirrigate — to irrigate beneath the surface of the ground, as with water passing through a system of underground porous pipes or transmitted through the subsoil from ditches, etc.
  • subitaneous — sudden
  • subjectable — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
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