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

  • stationery cupboard — a cupboard where things like paper, pens and paper clips are kept
  • stochastic variable — a random variable.
  • strait of gibraltar — a narrow strait between the S tip of Spain and the NW tip of Africa, linking the Mediterranean with the Atlantic
  • subtractive process — a process of color photography in which the colors are formed by combination of cyan, yellow, and magenta lights.
  • telescopic umbrella — an umbrella having parts that telescope
  • the admiralty board — (formerly) a department of the British Ministry of Defence, responsible for the administration and planning of the Royal Navy
  • to be in the charts — (of a record or pop group) to be popular
  • 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.
  • to rack your brains — If you rack your brains, you try very hard to think of something.
  • to turn a blind eye — If you say that someone is turning a blind eye to something bad or illegal that is happening, you mean that you think they are pretending not to notice that it is happening so that they will not have to do anything about it.
  • toshiba corporation — (company)   A Japanese technology manufacturer with 364 subsidiaries worldwide. Toshiba makes and sells electronics for home, office, industry and health care including information and communication systems, electronic components, heavy electrical apparatus, consumer products and medical diagnostic imaging equipment. In FY 2003-4, Toshiba employed 161,286 people.
  • trickle bed reactor — A trickle bed reactor is a reactor in which gravity makes a gas and a liquid flow through a bed of catalyst.
  • 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.
  • turn a blind eye to — to pretend not to notice or ignore deliberately
  • wandering albatross — a large albatross, Diomedea exulans, of southern waters, having the plumage mostly white with dark markings on the upper parts.
  • wassermann antibody — reagin (def 1).
  • websters-dictionary — Informal. a dictionary of the English language, especially American English, such as Dictionary.com.
  • west dunbartonshire — a council area of W central Scotland, on Loch Lomond and the Clyde estuary: corresponds to part of the historical county of Dunbartonshire; part of Strathclyde Region from 1975 to 1996: engineering industries. Administrative centre: Dumbarton. Pop: 92 320 (2003 est). Area: 162 sq km (63 sq miles)
  • 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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