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19-letter words containing b, a, n, g, t, o

  • non-distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • not by a long chalk — by no means; not possibly
  • not by a long sight — on no account; not at all
  • on-the-job training — apprenticeship, learning by doing
  • postal savings bank — any of the savings banks formerly operated by local post offices and limited to small accounts.
  • put on the feed bag — Also called nose bag. a bag for feeding horses, placed before the mouth and fastened around the head with straps.
  • 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
  • spaghetti bolognese — Italian dish of pasta and tomato sauce
  • standing broad jump — a jump for distance from a standing position.
  • to break new ground — If you break new ground, you do something completely different or you do something in a completely different way.
  • 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 hang by a thread — If you say that something is hanging by a thread, you mean that it is in a very uncertain state and is unlikely to survive or succeed.
  • 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.
  • wearable technology — a small computer or advanced electronic device that is worn or carried on the body: the trendiest wearable technologies.
  • white-handed gibbon — a gibbon, Hylobates lar, inhabiting Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, and northern Sumatra, varying from black to light buff in color, and having white hands and feet: an endangered species.
  • 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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