18-letter words containing b, e, r, n
- tectorial membrane — membrane in the inner ear that covers the organ of Corti
- the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
- the general public — the people in a society; people in general
- the stars and bars — the flag of the Confederate States of America
- thermonuclear bomb — hydrogen bomb.
- timber rattlesnake — a rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus horridus, of the eastern U.S., usually having the body marked with dark crossbands.
- to bare one's soul — If you bare your soul, you tell someone your most secret thoughts and feelings.
- to be above ground — to be alive
- to be on the radar — to be noticed or important
- 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 bear witness to — If a person or thing bears witness to something, they show or say that it exists or happened.
- to put years on sb — if you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has put years on someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much older
- to the manner born — a way of doing, being done, or happening; mode of action, occurrence, etc.: I don't like the manner in which he complained.
- transfinite number — an infinite cardinal or ordinal number.
- transmission brake — A transmission brake is a brake that operates on the transmission system of a vehicle rather than directly on the wheels.
- transporter bridge — a bridge for carrying passengers and vehicles by means of a platform suspended from a trolley.
- travelling library — a mobile library in which a vehicle such as a van delivers books to be borrowed
- treaty obligations — obligations or duties that must be carried out by a party as according to a treaty they have entered into
- trobriand islander — a native or inhabitant of the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea
- turbine ventilator — a ventilator, usually mounted on the roof of a building, deck of a ship, etc., having at its head a globular, vaned rotor that is rotated by the wind, conveying air through a duct to and from a chamber below.
- turn one's back on — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
- under one's breath — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
- under the jackboot — If a country or group of people is under the jackboot, they are suffering because the government is cruel and undemocratic.
- united arab states — a former (1958–61) federation of the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) and Yemen.
- 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.
- universalizability — the thesis that any moral judgment must be equally applicable to every relevantly identical situation
- urban contemporary — popular dance music incorporating elements of rap, rhythm-and-blues, funk, and soul.
- urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
- uriniferous tubule — a urine-bearing tubule in a nephron of a kidney.
- vitelline membrane — the membrane surrounding the egg yolk.
- wardrobe assistant — a person who assists the wardrobe mistress in a theatre
- water on the brain — hydrocephalus.
- weberian apparatus — (in certain fishes) a chain of small bones and ligaments connecting the inner ear with the air bladder.
- westinghouse brake — a railroad air brake operated by compressed air.
- white man's burden — the alleged duty of white colonizers to care for nonwhite indigenous subjects in their colonial possessions.
- women's liberation — a movement to combat sexual discrimination and to gain full legal, economic, vocational, educational, and social rights and opportunities for women, equal to those of men.
- wood-burning stove — cooker: fueled by wood
- working men's club — A working men's club is a place where working people, especially men, can go to relax, drink alcoholic drinks, and sometimes watch live entertainment.