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11-letter words containing w, e, b, s

  • eyebrowless — having no eyebrows
  • fast bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
  • glassblower — A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.
  • hawser bend — a knot uniting the ends of two lines.
  • ida b wellsHenry, 1805–78, U.S. businessman: pioneered in banking, stagecoach services, and express shipping.
  • jawbreakers — Plural form of jawbreaker.
  • lawbreakers — Plural form of lawbreaker.
  • lewy bodies — abnormal proteins that occur in the nerve cells of the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia, causing Parkinson's disease and dementia
  • marrowbones — Plural form of marrowbone.
  • middlebrows — Plural form of middlebrow.
  • misbestowal — a wrong or improper bestowal
  • mouse elbow — (jargon, medical)   A tennis-elbow-like fatigue syndrome resulting from excessive use of a WIMP. Similarly, "mouse shoulder". GLS reports that he used to get this a lot before he taught himself to be ambimoustrous.
  • nonwashable — Not washable.
  • objectworks — An object-oriented development environment developed by ParcPlace, available under Smalltalk and C++.
  • ombudswomen — Plural form of ombudswoman.
  • oxbow chest — a chest of drawers having a front convex at the sides and concave in the center without vertical divisions.
  • safe-blower — a person who uses explosives to open safes and rob them
  • saul bellowSaul, 1915–2005, U.S. novelist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize in Literature 1976.
  • seam bowler — a fast bowler who makes the ball bounce on its seam so that it will change direction
  • snow banner — snow being blown off a mountaintop.
  • snow blower — a motor-driven machine on wheels used to remove snow by throwing it into the air and to one side.
  • snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
  • snowmobiler — a person who drives a snowmobile
  • spin bowler — a bowler who specializes in bowling balls with a spinning motion
  • swage block — an iron block containing holes and grooves of various sizes, used for heading bolts and shaping objects not easily worked on an anvil.
  • swallowable — to take into the stomach by drawing through the throat and esophagus with a voluntary muscular action, as food, drink, or other substances.
  • swamp barge — A swamp barge is a vessel used for offshore drilling in very shallow water, which is towed out and then rests on the bottom.
  • swamp blues — a style of slow blues originating in Louisiana
  • swansea bay — an inlet of the Bristol Channel, on which the port of Swansea stands
  • swashbuckle — to work, behave, or perform as a swashbuckler.
  • swear blind — to assert emphatically
  • sweat blood — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
  • 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.
  • sweet birch — a North American tree, Betula lenta, having smooth, blackish bark and twigs that are a source of methyl salicylate.
  • sweet herbs — sweet-smelling herbs that are grown specifically for cooking
  • sweet shrub — Carolina allspice.
  • sweetlambda — Sugared lambda-calculus(?).
  • switchblade — a pocketknife, the blade of which is held by a spring and can be released suddenly, as by pressing a button.
  • swivelblock — a block that supports a swivel
  • swordbearer — an official who carries the sword of state on ceremonial occasions, as before the sovereign, a magistrate, or the like.
  • tribeswoman — a female member of a tribe.
  • unbeknownst — unknown; unperceived; without one's knowledge (usually followed by to).
  • waffle slab — a reinforced-concrete floor and roof construction employing a square grid of deep ribs with coffers in the interstices.
  • waldsterben — the symptoms of tree decline in central Europe from the 1970s, considered to be caused by atmospheric pollution
  • warrensburg — a town in central Missouri.
  • wastebasket — a standing basket for wastepaper, small items of trash, etc.
  • water brash — heartburn (def 1).
  • wattlebirds — Plural form of wattlebird.
  • weaverbirds — Plural form of weaverbird.
  • web address — Computers. URL (def 2).
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