18-letter words containing b, e, d, l
- pseudotuberculosis — an acute, sometimes fatal disease of rodents, birds, and other animals, including humans, caused by the bacterium Yersinia (Pasteurella) pseudotuberculosis, and characterized by the formation of nodules resembling those that result from tuberculosis.
- public expenditure — spending by central government, local authorities, and public corporations
- put a bold face on — to seem bold or confident about
- red-bellied turtle — any of several freshwater turtles of the genus Pseudemys, of the eastern and southern U.S., having red markings on the lower shell.
- reggio di calabria — a seaport in S Italy, on the Strait of Messina: almost totally destroyed by an earthquake 1908.
- rheims-douay bible — Douay Bible.
- ribbon development — housing or commercial buildings built along a stretch of road.
- richard p. gabriel — Richard Gabriel
- rub shoulders with — to mix with socially or associate with
- sale and leaseback — leaseback.
- schofield barracks — a town on central Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- selective breeding — the raising of animals with particular genetic traits through careful choice of parents
- september holidays — a period of time in September when people do not have to go to school, college or work
- sindbad the sailor — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments), a wealthy citizen of Baghdad who relates the adventures of his seven wonderful voyages.
- slobodan milosevic — Slobodan [sloh-buh-dain] /ˈsloʊ bəˌdɛən/ (Show IPA), 1941–2006, Yugoslav and Serbian politician: president of Serbia 1989–97, president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1997–2000, accused of war crimes 2001.
- street credibility — street cred.
- 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.
- 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-master-builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- three-body problem — the problem of calculating the motions of three bodies in space moving under the influence of only their mutual gravitational attraction.
- to be tickled pink — If you are tickled pink, you are extremely pleased about something.
- trobriand islander — a native or inhabitant of the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea
- universal debugger — (tool, parallel) (udb) KSR's interactive source level debugger for serial and parallel programs written in KSR, Fortran, KSR C and KSR1 assembly language. Udb is a source level debugger for testing and debugging serial and parallel programs; it is compatible with GDB and dbx. The user can direct udb either by typing commands or graphically through an X-based window interface; the latter provides simultaneous display of source code, I/O and instructions. For parallel programs, operations can be carried out per-thread.
- widemouth blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
- yell bloody murder — Law. the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson (first-degree murder) and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation (second-degree murder)
- yellow book cd-rom — A CD-ROM format which is ISO 9660 compliant and uses mode 1 addressing. Discs of this type can be played on most drives and would be appropriate for most multimedia applications which have been developed for personal computers.