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

  • skatemobile — a scooterlike vehicle built of boxes, boards, or the like, and mounted on skate wheels.
  • soft-boiled — to boil (an egg) just long enough for the yolk and white to partially solidify, usually three or four minutes.
  • splint bone — one of the rudimentary, splintlike metacarpal or metatarsal bones of the horse or some allied animal, one on each side of the back of each cannon bone.
  • stable girl — a girl or woman who looks after or attends horses in stables
  • stepsibling — a stepbrother or stepsister.
  • stereoblind — lacking the ability to see in three dimensions through both eyes
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • subliteracy — below average literacy
  • subliterary — not intended as literature
  • subliterate — less than fully literate.
  • submetallic — somewhat or imperfectly metallic.
  • 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.
  • subterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
  • subtilities — subtlety.
  • subvertical — being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
  • suggestible — subject to or easily influenced by suggestion.
  • susceptible — admitting or capable of some specified treatment: susceptible of a high polish; susceptible to various interpretations.
  • suspectible — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
  • sustainable — capable of being supported or upheld, as by having its weight borne from below.
  • 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.
  • switchblade — a pocketknife, the blade of which is held by a spring and can be released suddenly, as by pressing a button.
  • syllabicate — to syllabify.
  • table linen — tablecloths, napkins, etc., used in setting a table.
  • tabularised — to tabulate.
  • tabularized — to tabulate.
  • tamburlaine — Tamerlane.
  • telebanking — a facility enabling customers to make use of banking services by means of a computer network
  • tempolabile — changing irregularly with time
  • tennis ball — a hollow ball used in tennis, made of rubber with a fuzzy covering of woven Dacron, nylon, or wool.
  • terbutaline — a selective beta-adrenergic receptor agonist substance, C 12 H 19 NO 3 , used in the treatment of asthma.
  • testability — the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
  • the sublime — sublime quality; sublimity
  • thimbleweed — any of several plants having a thimble-shaped fruiting head, especially either of two white-flowered North American plants, Anemone riparia or A. virginiana.
  • timber mill — a sawmill producing timbers, as for building purposes.
  • timber wolf — the gray wolf, Canis lupus, sometimes designated as the subspecies C. lupus occidentalis: formerly common in northern North America but now greatly reduced in number and rare in the conterminous U.S.
  • timetabling — the act of scheduling something to happen or do something at a particular time
  • timing belt — an endless belt bearing teeth for engaging sprockets on two mechanisms requiring precise synchronization.
  • toghril beg — ?990–1063 ad, Sultan of Turkey (1055–63), who founded the Seljuq dynasty and conquered Baghdad (1055)
  • toilet bowl — the ceramic bowl of a toilet.
  • tolbutamide — a white crystalline substance, C 12 H 18 N 2 O 3 S, used to augment insulin secretion in the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
  • toll bridge — a bridge at which a toll is charged.
  • toolbuilder — Tool Builder Kit
  • trafficable — that can be traveled upon: a trafficable road.
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