11-letter words containing u, s, b, e
- scaberulous — tending to be scabrous or slightly rough to the touch
- scrub nurse — a nurse specially trained to assist surgeons in the operating room and serving as part of the surgically clean medical team handling instruments during an operation.
- scuba diver — sb who dives underwater
- 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.
- sea blubber — a large jellyfish, Cyanea capillata.
- semishrubby — somewhat resembling a shrub; shrubby in some respects; having characteristics somewhat like those of a shrub; partly covered in shrubs
- service bus — a public bus with a regular route
- 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.
- shipbuilder — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- shrubberied — having a shrubbery
- shutter-bug — an amateur photographer, especially one who is greatly devoted to the hobby.
- shuttle bus — a bus that travels regularly between two places
- sibuyan sea — a sea in the Philippines S of Luzon and E of Mindanao: site of U.S.-Japan naval battle 1944.
- slop bucket — slop pail.
- slumberland — an imaginary land described to children as the place they enter during sleep.
- slumberless — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- slumbersome — tired; sleepy
- soap bubble — a bubble of soapsuds.
- soap-bubble — a bubble of soapsuds.
- soluble rna — a small RNA molecule, consisting of a strand of nucleotides folded into a clover-leaf shape, that picks up an unattached amino acid within the cell cytoplasm and conveys it to the ribosome for protein synthesis. Abbreviation: tRNA.
- source book — an original writing, as a document, record, or diary, that supplies an authoritative basis for future writing, study, evaluation, etc.
- southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- spinel ruby — ruby spinel.
- 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.
- spruce beer — a fermented beverage made with spruce leaves and twigs, or an extract from them.
- squeeze-box — a concertina or accordion.
- 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-clauses — Grammar. a syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence.
- sub-culture — Bacteriology. to cultivate (a bacterial strain) again on a new medium.
- sub-economy — thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc.
- sub-heading — a title or heading of a subdivision, as in a chapter, essay, or newspaper article.
- sub-manager — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
- 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.
- sub-species — A sub-species of a plant or animal is one of the types that a particular species is divided into.
- sub-surface — below the surface, especially of a body of water.
- 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.