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18-letter words containing a, b, s, t, e, r

  • the stars and bars — the flag of the Confederate States of America
  • 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 bare one's soul — If you bare your soul, you tell someone your most secret thoughts and feelings.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • to get a bad press — If someone or something gets a bad press, they are criticized, especially in the newspapers, on television, or on radio. If they get a good press, they are praised.
  • to put years on sb — if you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has put years on someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much older
  • to sweep the board — If someone sweeps the board in a competition or election, they win nearly everything that it is possible to win.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • under one's breath — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
  • 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).
  • wardrobe assistant — a person who assists the wardrobe mistress in a theatre
  • 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 chambersRobert, 1802–71, Scottish publisher and editor.
  • 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.
  • yerkes observatory — an astronomical observatory located in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, affiliated with the University of Chicago, and having a 40-inch (102-cm) refracting telescope, the largest refractor in the world.
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