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18-letter words containing b, e, t, a, g

  • get one's own back — of, relating to, or belonging to oneself or itself (usually used after a possessive to emphasize the idea of ownership, interest, or relation conveyed by the possessive): He spent only his own money.
  • gettysburg address — the notable short speech made by President Lincoln on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the national cemetery at Gettysburg, Pa.
  • gilbert and george — a team of artists, Gilbert Proesch, Italian, born 1942, and George Passmore, British, born 1943: noted esp for their photomontages and performance works
  • give sb their head — If you give someone their head, you allow them to do what they want to do, without trying to advise or stop them.
  • gladden sb's heart — If you say that something gladdens someone's heart, you mean that it makes them feel pleased and hopeful.
  • go back to the mat — to abandon urban civilization
  • go to the bathroom — use the toilet
  • golden bantam corn — a horticultural variety of sweet corn having yellow kernels.
  • golden gate bridge — a bridge connecting N California with San Francisco peninsula. 4200-foot (1280-meter) center span.
  • grand traverse bay — an inlet of Lake Michigan on the NW of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan.
  • great barrier reef — coral structure off Australian coast
  • great pastern bone — the part of the foot of a horse, cow, etc., between the fetlock and the hoof.
  • have a thing about — If you have a thing about someone or something, you have very strong feelings about them.
  • hermaphrodite brig — a two-masted sailing vessel, square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft-rigged on the mainmast.
  • interchangeability — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
  • intimate borrowing — the borrowing of linguistic forms by one language or dialect from another when both occupy a single geographical or cultural community.
  • johannes gutenberg — Johannes [yoh-hahn-uh s] /yoʊˈhɑn əs/ (Show IPA), (Johann Gensfleisch) c1400–68, German printer: credited with invention of printing from movable type.
  • kentucky bluegrass — a grass, Poa pratensis, of the Mississippi valley, used for pasturage and lawns.
  • knight of the bath — a member of a knightly order founded by George I of England in 1725.
  • labeled bracketing — a representation of the constituent structure of a string, as a word or sentence, comparable to a tree diagram, in which each constituent is shown in brackets and given a subscript grammatical label, with each bracketed item corresponding to a node in a tree diagram.
  • legislative branch — the branch of government having the power to make laws; the legislature.
  • malpighian tubules — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
  • manufacturing base — the manufacturing industries of an area or a country considered as a unit and a constituent part of the economy
  • 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.
  • 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
  • noninterchangeable — That cannot be interchanged with another.
  • north attleborough — a city in SE Massachusetts.
  • obedience training — the training of an animal, especially a dog, to obey certain commands.
  • optical brightener — an additive that dyes and brightens fabric or paper
  • pattern bargaining — a collective bargaining technique in which contract terms in one settlement are used as models to be imposed on other negotiating parties within an industry.
  • point-bearing pile — a pile depending on the soil or rock beneath its foot for support.
  • punishment beating — a form of corporal punishment carried out by a paramilitary organization on a member of another sectarian organization, usually in Northern Ireland
  • range of stability — the angle to the perpendicular through which a vessel may be heeled without losing the ability to right itself.
  • relational algebra — (database, theory)   A family of algebra with a well-founded semantics used for modelling the data stored in relational databases, and defining queries on it. The main operations of the relational algebra are the set operations (such as union, intersection, and cartesian product), selection (keeping only some lines of a table) and the projection (keeping only some columns). The relational data model describes how the data is structured.
  • risk based testing — (testing)   Testing based on identification of potential risks (or "candidate risks"), which should be analysed by the project stakeholder or which might appear during the project's development.
  • seven-league boots — mythical boots that allowed the wearer to travel seven leagues (a former unit of measurement), ie a great length, at each step
  • stand-by generator — an electrical system which operates automatically in case the usual system malfunctions
  • stand-by passenger — someone who buys a (usually cheaper) ticket, if they are still available, on a plane just before it is about to leave rather than booking in advance
  • strangeness number — a quantum number, designating the strangeness of an elementary particle, equivalent to the hypercharge minus the baryon number
  • supraorbital ridge — browridge.
  • the beautiful game — football
  • the general public — the people in a society; people in general
  • to be above ground — to be alive
  • 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 get a bad press — If someone or something gets a bad press, they are criticized, especially in the newspapers, on television, or on radio. If they get a good press, they are praised.
  • 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
  • urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
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