12-letter words containing y, e, b
- set store by — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- severability — capability of being separated, as of a clause in an agreement
- shareability — the state or property of being able to be shared
- shepherd boy — male child who herds sheep
- side by side — one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- silver belly — a freshwater eel
- sleeper goby — any gobioid fish of the family Eleotridae, of brackish or fresh tropical waters, resembling the gobies but lacking a ventral sucker
- slubberingly — in a slubbering or slovenly manner
- slumberingly — in a slumbering manner
- solitary bee — any of numerous bees, as the leaf-cutting bees, that do not live in a community.
- soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
- stageability — a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
- steerability — to guide the course of (something in motion) by a rudder, helm, wheel, etc.: to steer a bicycle.
- step by step — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
- student body — all the students enrolled at an educational institution.
- sub-attorney — a lawyer; attorney-at-law.
- subalternity — lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
- subcentrally — in a subcentral manner
- subfertility — below-average fertility
- subfeudatory — of or relating to subfeu
- subjectively — existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective).
- subjectivity — the state or quality of being subjective; subjectiveness.
- submissively — inclined or ready to submit or yield to the authority of another; unresistingly or humbly obedient: submissive servants.
- subquarterly — as one of the quarterings of a grand quarter: a coat of arms borne subquarterly.
- subsecretary — a secretary subordinate to another secretary
- subsequently — occurring or coming later or after (often followed by to): subsequent events; Subsequent to their arrival in Chicago, they bought a new car.
- subserviency — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
- subspecialty — a lesser or minor specialty: a cinematographer with a subspecialty of portrait photography.
- subversively — Also, subversionary [suh b-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-] /səbˈvɜr ʒəˌnɛr i, -ʃə-/ (Show IPA). tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.
- sybase, inc. — (company) A software vendor focused on database management software. Yearly sales: $903.9 million (1997). Address: 6475 Christie Ave., Emeryville, California, USA.
- teachability — capable of being instructed, as a person; docile.
- teeny bopper — a teenage girl, especially a young one.
- teeny-bopper — a teenage girl, especially a young one.
- temptability — the state of being liable to temptation
- the big city — a city viewed as a place of opportunity compared to small towns or the country
- the blue boy — a famous portrait by Gainsborough of a boy wearing a blue outfit
- thimbleberry — any of several American raspberries bearing a thimble-shaped fruit, especially the black raspberry, Rubus occidentalis.
- thrombectomy — surgical removal of a blood clot from a blood vessel.
- tolerability — capable of being tolerated; endurable: His arrogance is no longer tolerable.
- toynbee hall — a residential settlement in East London, named after Arnold Toynbee (1852–83), a British economist and social reformer
- traceability — capable of being traced.
- treatability — able to be treated, especially medically: Some diseases are treatable but not curable.
- triple bogey — a score of three strokes over par on a hole.
- tube railway — subway (def 1).
- tumble dryer — A tumble dryer is an electric machine which dries washing by turning it over and over and blowing warm air onto it.
- turbidimetry — a device for measuring the turbidity of water or other liquids.
- turkey brown — an angler's name for a species of mayfly, Paraleptophlebia submarginata
- tyndall beam — the visible path of light produced by the scattering action (Tyndall effect) of the particles in a colloidal solution on a beam of light passed through it.
- unacceptably — in an intolerable manner
- unanalysable — not able to be analysed or examined