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18-letter words containing b, a, t, l, e

  • see the last of sb — not encounter sb anymore
  • selective abortion — the aborting of particular embryos for medical or social reasons
  • separate but equal — pertaining to a racial policy, formerly practiced in some parts of the United States, by which black people could be segregated if granted equal opportunities and facilities, as for education, transportation, or jobs.
  • september holidays — a period of time in September when people do not have to go to school, college or work
  • seven-league boots — mythical boots that allowed the wearer to travel seven leagues (a former unit of measurement), ie a great length, at each step
  • sindbad the sailor — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments), a wealthy citizen of Baghdad who relates the adventures of his seven wonderful voyages.
  • small pastern bone — the part of the foot of a horse, cow, etc., between the fetlock and the hoof.
  • software backplane — (programming, tool)   A CASE framework from Atherton.
  • stationary bicycle — an exercise bike
  • statistical tables — tables showing the values of the cumulative distribution functions, probability functions, or probability density functions of certain common distributions for different values of their parameters, and used esp to determine whether or not a particular statistical result exceeds the required significance level
  • subatomic particle — physics:
  • 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.
  • supraorbital ridge — browridge.
  • talk a blue streak — speak rapidly and incessantly
  • talk between ships — TBS (def 1).
  • tectorial membrane — membrane in the inner ear that covers the organ of Corti
  • television cabinet — a cabinet on which a television set is placed or in which it is encased
  • the beautiful game — football
  • the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
  • the black and tans — a specially recruited armed auxiliary police force sent to Ireland in 1921 by the British Government to combat Sinn Féin
  • the black mountain — a mountain range in S Wales, in E Carmarthenshire and W Powys. Highest peak: Carmarthen Van, 802 m (2632 ft)
  • the blue hen state — a nickname for the state of Delaware
  • the general public — the people in a society; people in general
  • the welsh assembly — the elected assembly for Wales, based in Cardiff, that has certain powers devolved from the UK government
  • the-master-builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • thermonuclear bomb — hydrogen bomb.
  • tick all the boxes — to satisfy all of the apparent requirements for success
  • 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 spill the beans — If you spill the beans, you tell someone something that people have been trying to keep secret.
  • too clever by half — If someone is too clever by half, they are very clever and they show their cleverness in a way that annoys other people.
  • travelling library — a mobile library in which a vehicle such as a van delivers books to be borrowed
  • 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
  • turbine ventilator — a ventilator, usually mounted on the roof of a building, deck of a ship, etc., having at its head a globular, vaned rotor that is rotated by the wind, conveying air through a duct to and from a chamber below.
  • universalizability — the thesis that any moral judgment must be equally applicable to every relevantly identical situation
  • up to the eyeballs — You use up to the eyeballs to emphasize that someone is in an undesirable state to a very great degree.
  • visible panty line — the line of someone's underwear which can be seen through trousers
  • vitelline membrane — the membrane surrounding the egg yolk.
  • widemouth blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
  • 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.
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