18-letter words containing b, e, o, t

mobile police unit — a motorized police unit
mobility allowance — an allowance paid by the government to help people who have limited mobility
money is no object — If you say that money is no object or distance is no object, you are emphasizing that you are willing or able to spend as much money as necessary or travel whatever distance is required.
motor torpedo boat — PT boat.
mountain cranberry — cowberry
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.
multicast backbone — (MBONE) A virtual network on top of the Internet which supports routing of IP multicast packets, intended for multimedia transmission. MBONE gives public access desktop video communications. The quality is poor with only 3-5 frames per second instead of the 30 frames per second of commercial television. Its advantage is that it avoids all telecommunications costs normally associated with teleconferencing. An interesting innovation is the use of MBONE for audio communications and an electronic "whiteboard" where the computer screen becomes a shared workspace where two physically remote parties can draw on and edit shared documents in real-time.
napoleon bonaparte — Jérôme [juh-rohm;; French zhey-rohm] /dʒəˈroʊm;; French ʒeɪˈroʊm/ (Show IPA), 1784–1860, king of Westphalia 1807 (brother of Napoleon I).
nebular hypothesis — the theory that the solar system evolved from a mass of nebular matter: prominent in the 19th century following its precise formulation by Laplace.
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
network byte order — (networking) The order in which the bytes of a multi-byte number are transmitted on a network - most significant byte first (as in "big-endian" storage). This may or may not match the order in which numbers are normally stored in memory for a particular processor.
nobiliary particle — a preposition forming part of a title of nobility or surname, as French de or German von.
non-responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
non-understandable — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
noninterchangeable — That cannot be interchanged with another.
north attleborough — a city in SE Massachusetts.
north bedfordshire — a city in Bedfordshire, in central England.
northeast by north — a point on the compass 11°15′ north of northeast. Abbreviation: NEbN.
northwest by north — a point on the compass, 11°15′ north of northwest. Abbreviation: NWbN.
not be one's scene — If you say that an activity or place is not your scene, you mean that you do not like it or enjoy it.
not breathe a word — to take air, oxygen, etc., into the lungs and expel it; inhale and exhale; respire.
notifiable disease — any one of a number of infectious diseases of humans and animals, that must be reported to the public health authorities
obedience training — the training of an animal, especially a dog, to obey certain commands.
object-orientation — object-oriented
objective genitive — a use of the genitive case to express an objective relationship, as in Latin timor mortis (fear of death)
objective idealism — a form of idealism asserting that the act of experiencing has a reality combining and transcending the natures of the object experienced and of the mind of the observer.
objective modula-2 — (language) (Or "ObjM2") An extension to Modula-2 for Cocoa and GNUstep software development. Objective Modula-2 follows the Objective-C object model and retains the bracketed Smalltalk message passing syntax used in Objective-C. Classes written in ObjM2 can be used within ObjC and vice versa. ObjM2 also retains Modula-2's data encapsulation features, namely nested modules with explicit import and export lists. Due to the strict type checking in Modula-2, ObjM2 can be considered a much safer programming language than is ObjC, yet losing none of the capabilities of ObjC.
oblique projection — something that is oblique.
oblique-slip fault — a fault on which the movement is along both the strike and the dip of the fault
octachlorobiphenyl — (organic compound) Either of twelve isomers of the polychlorinated biphenyl containing eight chlorine atoms.
october revolution — Russian Revolution (def 2).
on the back burner — low priority
one's heart bleeds — used to express sympathetic grief, but often used ironically
optical brightener — an additive that dyes and brightens fabric or paper
oriental alabaster — alabaster (def 2).
petite bourgeoisie — the portion of the bourgeoisie having the least wealth and lowest social status; the lower middle class.
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.
point-bearing pile — a pile depending on the soil or rock beneath its foot for support.
population balance — A population balance is a model showing particle sizes during a grinding process, which is used when designing a process.
portable equipment — Portable equipment is electrical equipment that can easily be moved from one place to another while in operation or while connected to the supply.
prepositional verb — a combination of verb and preposition, often with idiomatic meaning, differing from other phrasal verbs in that an object must always follow the preposition, as take after in The children take after their mother.
probability theory — the theory of analyzing and making statements concerning the probability of the occurrence of uncertain events. Compare probability (def 4).
prometheus unbound — a drama in verse (1820) by Shelley.
protease inhibitor — a drug that inhibits the action of protease, especially any of a class of antiviral drugs that prevent the cleavage and replication of HIV proteins.
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 examination — an examination, such as a GCSE exam, that is set by a central examining board
put a bold face on — to seem bold or confident about
put the clock back — to regress

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