18-letter words containing b, e, l, t, d
- one's heart bleeds — used to express sympathetic grief, but often used ironically
- pileolated warbler — either of two western subspecies of Wilson's warbler.
- piperonyl butoxide — a light-brown liquid, C 1 9 H 3 0 O 5 , used chiefly as a synergist in certain insecticides.
- 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.
- ribbon development — housing or commercial buildings built along a stretch of road.
- rub shoulders with — to mix with socially or associate with
- 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.
- 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
- widemouth blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.