18-letter words containing a, b, s, c
- sub-saharan africa — the region of Africa to the south of the Sahara desert
- subatomic particle — physics:
- submarine sandwich — a sandwich made with a long cylindrical bread roll
- 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.
- subsidiary company — a company whose controlling interest is owned by another company.
- 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
- task control block — (architecture) An MVS control block used to communicate information about tasks within an address space that are connected to an MVS subsystem such as MQSeries for MVS/ESA or CICS.
- television cabinet — a cabinet on which a television set is placed or in which it is encased
- the baptist church — any of various Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of believers
- the black and tans — a specially recruited armed auxiliary police force sent to Ireland in 1921 by the British Government to combat Sinn Féin
- tick all the boxes — to satisfy all of the apparent requirements for success
- to be caught short — If you are caught short or are taken short, you feel a sudden strong need to urinate, especially when you cannot easily find a toilet.
- turn one's back on — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
- two-chamber system — the system of having two parliamentary chambers, as the House of Lords and the House of Commons in the United Kingdom
- what has become of — If you wonder what has become of someone or something, you wonder where they are and what has happened to them.
- whittaker chambers — Robert, 1802–71, Scottish publisher and editor.