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18-letter words containing b, e, g, r

  • highbush blueberry — a spreading, bushy shrub, Vaccinium corymbosum, of eastern North America, having small, urn-shaped, white or pinkish flowers, and bluish-black edible fruit, growing about 10 feet (3 meters) high.
  • highbush cranberry — a shrub, Viburnum trilobum, of northern North America, having broad clusters of white flowers and edible scarlet berries.
  • house of burgesses — the assembly of representatives in colonial Virginia.
  • in good/bad repair — If something such as a building is in good repair, it is in good condition. If it is in bad repair, it is in bad condition.
  • interchangeability — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
  • intimate borrowing — the borrowing of linguistic forms by one language or dialect from another when both occupy a single geographical or cultural community.
  • invisible earnings — earnings from services provided rather than goods
  • irregular variable — a variable star whose brightness variation is irregular.
  • johannes gutenberg — Johannes [yoh-hahn-uh s] /yoʊˈhɑn əs/ (Show IPA), (Johann Gensfleisch) c1400–68, German printer: credited with invention of printing from movable type.
  • kentucky bluegrass — a grass, Poa pratensis, of the Mississippi valley, used for pasturage and lawns.
  • kirkcudbrightshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
  • labeled bracketing — a representation of the constituent structure of a string, as a word or sentence, comparable to a tree diagram, in which each constituent is shown in brackets and given a subscript grammatical label, with each bracketed item corresponding to a node in a tree diagram.
  • legislative branch — the branch of government having the power to make laws; the legislature.
  • limburger (cheese) — a semisoft cheese of whole milk, with a strong odor and flavor, made originally in Limburg, Belgium
  • long-horned beetle — any of numerous, often brightly colored beetles of the family Cerambycidae, usually with long antennae, the larva of which bores into the wood of living or decaying trees.
  • lubber grasshopper — plains grasshopper.
  • manufacturing base — the manufacturing industries of an area or a country considered as a unit and a constituent part of the economy
  • medicine bow range — a range of the Rocky Mountains, in Wyoming and Colorado. Highest peak, Medicine Bow Peak, 12,014 feet (3662 meters).
  • member of congress — law: elected representative
  • middleburg heights — a town in N Ohio.
  • moving bed reactor — A moving bed reactor is a reactor in which a layer of catalyst in the form of granules is moved between a reaction area and a regeneration area.
  • neighborhood watch — a neighborhood surveillance program or group in which residents keep watch over one another's houses, patrol the streets, etc., in an attempt to prevent crime.
  • net book agreement — a former agreement between UK publishers and booksellers that until 1995 prohibited booksellers from undercutting the price of books sold in bookshops
  • noninterchangeable — That cannot be interchanged with another.
  • north attleborough — a city in SE Massachusetts.
  • obedience training — the training of an animal, especially a dog, to obey certain commands.
  • optical brightener — an additive that dyes and brightens fabric or paper
  • palm beach gardens — a city in SE Florida, near North Palm Beach.
  • pattern bargaining — a collective bargaining technique in which contract terms in one settlement are used as models to be imposed on other negotiating parties within an industry.
  • personal bodyguard — a person employed to protect a particular person
  • petite bourgeoisie — the portion of the bourgeoisie having the least wealth and lowest social status; the lower middle class.
  • play silly buggers — to fool around and waste time
  • point-bearing pile — a pile depending on the soil or rock beneath its foot for support.
  • radio range beacon — a radio transmitter that utilizes two or more directional antennas and transmits signals differing with direction, permitting a flier receiving a signal to determine his or her approximate bearing from the transmitter without a radio compass.
  • range of stability — the angle to the perpendicular through which a vessel may be heeled without losing the ability to right itself.
  • reggio di calabria — a seaport in S Italy, on the Strait of Messina: almost totally destroyed by an earthquake 1908.
  • relational algebra — (database, theory)   A family of algebra with a well-founded semantics used for modelling the data stored in relational databases, and defining queries on it. The main operations of the relational algebra are the set operations (such as union, intersection, and cartesian product), selection (keeping only some lines of a table) and the projection (keeping only some columns). The relational data model describes how the data is structured.
  • richard p. gabriel — Richard Gabriel
  • risk based testing — (testing)   Testing based on identification of potential risks (or "candidate risks"), which should be analysed by the project stakeholder or which might appear during the project's development.
  • second-degree burn — a burned place or area: a burn where fire had ripped through the forest.
  • selective breeding — the raising of animals with particular genetic traits through careful choice of parents
  • sir george gilbert — Barbara Ann, 1928–2012, Canadian figure skater.
  • squirting cucumber — a Mediterranean plant, Ecballium elaterium, of the gourd family, whose ripened fruit forcibly ejects the seeds and juice.
  • stand-by generator — an electrical system which operates automatically in case the usual system malfunctions
  • stand-by passenger — someone who buys a (usually cheaper) ticket, if they are still available, on a plane just before it is about to leave rather than booking in advance
  • strangeness number — a quantum number, designating the strangeness of an elementary particle, equivalent to the hypercharge minus the baryon number
  • supraorbital ridge — browridge.
  • the general public — the people in a society; people in general
  • tip of the iceberg — a large floating mass of ice, detached from a glacier and carried out to sea.
  • to be above ground — to be alive
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