18-letter words containing a, b, i, r, t
- september holidays — a period of time in September when people do not have to go to school, college or work
- sindbad the sailor — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments), a wealthy citizen of Baghdad who relates the adventures of his seven wonderful voyages.
- skinny-rib sweater — a tight-fitting ribbed woollen jumper or pullover
- sodium bicarbonate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, in powder or granules, NaHCO 3 , usually prepared by the reaction of soda ash with carbon dioxide or obtained from the intermediate product of the Solvay process by purification: used chiefly in the manufacture of sodium salts, baking powder, and beverages, as a laboratory reagent, as a fire extinguisher, and in medicine as an antacid.
- sodium tetraborate — borax1 .
- solomon rabinowitz — Solomon, Aleichem, Sholom.
- stationary bicycle — an exercise bike
- subatomic particle — physics:
- subordinate clause — a clause that modifies the principal clause or some part of it or that serves a noun function in the principal clause, as when she arrived in the sentence I was there when she arrived or that she has arrived in the sentence I doubt that she has arrived.
- subsistence farmer — a farmer who consumes most of the produce he grows, leaving little or nothing to be marketed
- substitute teacher — educator: replaces sb temporarily
- supraorbital ridge — browridge.
- tectorial membrane — membrane in the inner ear that covers the organ of Corti
- the baptist church — any of various Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of believers
- the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
- the general public — the people in a society; people in general
- the-master-builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- timber rattlesnake — a rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus horridus, of the eastern U.S., usually having the body marked with dark crossbands.
- to be said for sth — If you say there is a lot to be said for something, you mean you think it has a lot of good qualities or aspects.
- to bear witness to — If a person or thing bears witness to something, they show or say that it exists or happened.
- transfinite number — an infinite cardinal or ordinal number.
- transmission brake — A transmission brake is a brake that operates on the transmission system of a vehicle rather than directly on the wheels.
- transporter bridge — a bridge for carrying passengers and vehicles by means of a platform suspended from a trolley.
- transubstantiation — the changing of one substance into another.
- travelling library — a mobile library in which a vehicle such as a van delivers books to be borrowed
- treaty obligations — obligations or duties that must be carried out by a party as according to a treaty they have entered into
- trobriand islander — a native or inhabitant of the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea
- turbine ventilator — a ventilator, usually mounted on the roof of a building, deck of a ship, etc., having at its head a globular, vaned rotor that is rotated by the wind, conveying air through a duct to and from a chamber below.
- united arab states — a former (1958–61) federation of the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) and Yemen.
- universalizability — the thesis that any moral judgment must be equally applicable to every relevantly identical situation
- urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
- vitelline membrane — the membrane surrounding the egg yolk.
- voluntary abortion — abortion (def 1).
- voluntary-abortion — Also called voluntary abortion. the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to end a pregnancy.
- wardrobe assistant — a person who assists the wardrobe mistress in a theatre
- water on the brain — hydrocephalus.
- weberian apparatus — (in certain fishes) a chain of small bones and ligaments connecting the inner ear with the air bladder.
- westinghouse brake — a railroad air brake operated by compressed air.
- white man's burden — the alleged duty of white colonizers to care for nonwhite indigenous subjects in their colonial possessions.
- whittaker chambers — Robert, 1802–71, Scottish publisher and editor.
- wingback formation — single wingback formation.
- women's liberation — a movement to combat sexual discrimination and to gain full legal, economic, vocational, educational, and social rights and opportunities for women, equal to those of men.