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19-letter words containing a, b, o, r, i, g

  • molecular biologist — a specialist in the study of biological phenomena at the molecular level
  • negation by failure — An extralogical feature of Prolog and other logic programming languages in which failure of unification is treated as establishing the negation of a relation. For example, if Ronald Reagan is not in our database and we asked if he was an American, Prolog would answer "no".
  • neighbourhood watch — a scheme under which members of a community agree together to take responsibility for keeping an eye on each other's property, as a way of preventing crime
  • on-the-job training — apprenticeship, learning by doing
  • personal belongings — possessions; things that belong to someone
  • pseudo-biographical — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
  • rag-tag and bobtail — the riffraff; rabble: The ragtag and bobtail of every nation poured into the frontier in search of gold.
  • registration number — number on vehicle licence plate
  • removable cartridge — a hard disk enclosed in a case that can be removed from the disk drive, having more storage than floppy disks.
  • rhodesian ridgeback — a large short-haired breed of dog characterized by a ridge of hair growing along the back in the opposite direction to the rest of the coat. It was originally a hunting dog from South Africa
  • saber-toothed tiger — any of several extinct members of the cat family Felidae from the Oligocene to Pleistocene Epochs, having greatly elongated, saberlike upper canine teeth.
  • sabre-toothed tiger — any of various extinct Tertiary felines of the genus Smilodon and related genera, with long curved upper canine teeth
  • standing broad jump — a jump for distance from a standing position.
  • strait of gibraltar — a narrow strait between the S tip of Spain and the NW tip of Africa, linking the Mediterranean with the Atlantic
  • to fight for breath — If you fight for breath, you try to breathe but find it very difficult.
  • to go blackberrying — to go on an outing to collect blackberries
  • to grin and bear it — If you grin and bear it, you accept a difficult or unpleasant situation without complaining because you know there is nothing you can do to make things better.
  • trinidad and tobago — (used with a plural verb) two islands in the N Atlantic Ocean, off the NE coast of Venezuela.
  • turbo-ramjet engine — a combination engine that can be operated as a turbojet or ramjet engine.
  • wandering albatross — a large albatross, Diomedea exulans, of southern waters, having the plumage mostly white with dark markings on the upper parts.
  • zero-base budgeting — a process in government and corporate finance of justifying an overall budget or individual budgeted items each fiscal year or each review period rather than dealing only with proposed changes from a previous budget. Abbreviation: ZBB.
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