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

  • stable girl — a girl or woman who looks after or attends horses in stables
  • 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.
  • stenobathic — of or relating to marine or freshwater life that can tolerate only limited changes in depth (opposed to eurybathic).
  • stepsibling — a stepbrother or stepsister.
  • stereobatic — relating to or resembling a stereobate
  • stereoblind — lacking the ability to see in three dimensions through both eyes
  • sternotribe — (of a flower) having contact with the sternum of an insect
  • stickleback — any of the small, pugnacious, spiny-backed fishes of the family Gasterosteidae, inhabiting northern fresh waters and sea inlets, the male of which builds and guards the nest.
  • stilbestrol — a nonsteroidal synthetic estrogen, C 18 H 20 O 2 , used in medicine chiefly in the treatment of menopausal symptoms and in animal feeds for chemical caponization: formerly used during pregnancy for the prevention of miscarriage but discontinued owing to its association with an increased risk of vaginal and cervical cancers in women having had fetal exposure. Abbreviation: DES.
  • stobie pole — a steel and concrete pole for supporting electricity wires
  • stone-blind — completely blind.
  • stourbridge — an industrial town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 480 (2001)
  • strike back — retaliate
  • strike dumb — to amaze; astound; astonish
  • strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
  • string bean — any of various kinds of bean, as the green bean, the unripe pods of which are used as food, usually after stripping off the fibrous thread along the side.
  • 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-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.
  • 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
  • subjectship — the state of being a subject or citizen
  • subjunctive — (in English and certain other languages) noting or pertaining to a mood or mode of the verb that may be used for subjective, doubtful, hypothetical, or grammatically subordinate statements or questions, as the mood of be in if this be treason. Compare imperative (def 3), indicative (def 2).
  • subliteracy — below average literacy
  • subliterary — not intended as literature
  • subliterate — less than fully literate.
  • submetallic — somewhat or imperfectly metallic.
  • subminister — to supply
  • submittable — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • submultiple — a number that is contained by another number an integral number of times without a remainder: The number 3 is a submultiple of 12.
  • suboptimize — to use in a way that is less than optimal
  • subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • subservient — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
  • subsistence — the state or fact of subsisting.
  • substantive — a noun.
  • substituent — Chemistry. an atom or atomic group that takes the place of another atom or group present in the molecule of the original compound.
  • subterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
  • subtilities — subtlety.
  • subtractive — tending to subtract; having power to subtract.
  • 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.
  • subvitreous — of the nature of or resembling glass, as in transparency, brittleness, hardness, glossiness, etc.: vitreous china.
  • sucker bait — an enticement calculated to lure a person into a scheme in which he or she may be victimized.
  • suggestible — subject to or easily influenced by suggestion.
  • sun bittern — a graceful South American wading bird, Eurypyga helias, related to the cranes and rails, having variegated plumage.
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