18-letter words containing b, e, h, s, t
- substitute teacher — educator: replaces sb temporarily
- take a shine to sb — If you say that someone has taken a shine to another person, you mean that he or she liked them very much at their first meeting.
- talk between ships — TBS (def 1).
- the baptist church — any of various Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of believers
- 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 blue hen state — a nickname for the state of Delaware
- the bottomless pit — the underworld; hell
- the heebie-jeebies — apprehension and nervousness
- the powers that be — You can refer to people in authority as the powers that be, especially when you want to say that you disagree with them or do not understand what they say or do.
- the queen of sheba — a queen of the Sabeans, who visited Solomon (I Kings 10:1–13)
- the stars and bars — the flag of the Confederate States of America
- 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.
- tick all the boxes — to satisfy all of the apparent requirements for success
- tighten one's belt — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
- 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 on the rocks — if something such as a marriage or a business is on the rocks, it is experiencing very severe difficulties and looks likely to end very soon
- 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 close the books — to balance accounts in order to prepare a statement or report
- to spill the beans — If you spill the beans, you tell someone something that people have been trying to keep secret.
- to sweep the board — If someone sweeps the board in a competition or election, they win nearly everything that it is possible to win.
- 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.
- up to the eyeballs — You use up to the eyeballs to emphasize that someone is in an undesirable state to a very great degree.
- urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
- westinghouse brake — a railroad air brake operated by compressed air.
- what has become of — If you wonder what has become of someone or something, you wonder where they are and what has happened to them.
- white man's burden — the alleged duty of white colonizers to care for nonwhite indigenous subjects in their colonial possessions.
- whittaker chambers — Robert, 1802–71, Scottish publisher and editor.