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18-letter words containing b, e, s, h

  • 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 chambersRobert, 1802–71, Scottish publisher and editor.
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