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11-letter words containing v, b

  • revibration — the act of vibrating.
  • review body — an organization sponsored by the government to make independent recommendations
  • rhabdovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, including the rabies virus.
  • river basin — the area of land drained by a river and its branches.
  • river birch — a tree, Betula nigra, of the eastern U.S., having papery, reddish-brown bark that peels away.
  • rove beetle — any of numerous beetles of the family Staphylinidae, having a slender, elongated body and very short front wings, and capable of running swiftly.
  • ruby silver — proustite.
  • salvageable — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
  • scuba diver — sb who dives underwater
  • service bus — a public bus with a regular route
  • serviceable — capable of or being of service; useful.
  • shcherbakov — a former name (1946–57) of Andropov.
  • shelbyville — a city in central Indiana.
  • shovel beak — a deformity of the beak in intensively reared chicks
  • shovelboard — the game of shuffleboard.
  • silver bass — white bass.
  • silver beet — a variety of beet, Beta vulgaris cicla, having large firm green leaves: staple cooked green vegetable in Australia and New Zealand
  • silver bell — any North American shrub or small tree belonging to the genus Halesia, of the storax family, having toothed leaves and drooping white, bell-shaped flowers.
  • silver book — (publication)   Jensen and Wirth's infamous "Pascal User Manual and Report", so called because of the silver cover of the widely distributed Springer-Verlag second edition of 1978 (ISBN 0-387-90144-2). See also book titles, Pascal.
  • silverberry — a shrub, Elaeagnus commutata (or E. argentea), of north-central North America, having silvery leaves and flowers and silvery, drupelike edible fruit.
  • slave labor — persons, especially a large group, performing labor under duress or threats, as prisoners in a concentration camp; a labor force of slaves or slavelike prisoners.
  • sleeveboard — a small-scale ironing board for pressing sleeves, especially a narrow board that fits inside a coat sleeve.
  • solvability — capable of being solved, as a problem.
  • 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
  • subdivision — the act or fact of subdividing.
  • subdivisive — having a quality that subdivides
  • subgingival — being or occurring under the gums; especially, being or occurring in the crevice between the gum margin and the neck or root of a tooth.
  • subinterval — an interval that is a subset of a given interval.
  • 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).
  • subservient — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
  • substantive — a noun.
  • subtractive — tending to subtract; having power to subtract.
  • 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.
  • subvocalize — to form (words) silently by moving the lips or other vocal organs without vocalization
  • svarabhakti — the process of inserting vowel sounds into a consonant cluster, as in a loanword to make it conform to the pattern of the speaker's language and, hence, more easily pronounceable, as in the Italian pronunciation [lahn-tsee-ke-nek-kaw] /ˌlɑn tsi kɛˈnɛk kɔ/ (Show IPA) for German Landsknecht [lahnts-knekht] /ˈlɑntsˌknɛxt/ (Show IPA).
  • swivelblock — a block that supports a swivel
  • thumb drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
  • tishah b'av — a Jewish fast day observed on the ninth day of the month of Av in memory of the destruction in Jerusalem of the First and Second Temples.
  • travel book — a book about travelling to a certain country or region, esp a guidebook
  • traversable — to pass or move over, along, or through.
  • tu bishevat — the 15th day of the month of Shevat, observed as a new year for trees by planting trees and by eating fruits.
  • tumble over — If someone or something tumbles over, they fall, often with a rolling or bouncing movement.
  • un-abrasive — any material or substance used for grinding, polishing, etc., as emery, pumice, or sandpaper.
  • unadvisably — in an unadvisable manner
  • unavailable — suitable or ready for use; of use or service; at hand: I used whatever tools were available.
  • unavailably — in an unavailable or inaccessible manner
  • unavertable — not able to be averted or prevented
  • unavoidable — unable to be avoided; inevitable: an unavoidable delay.
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