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18-letter words containing b, i, e, n, h

  • rubbish collection — the collection of domestic refuse for disposal
  • saint john's bread — carob (def 2).
  • shrubby cinquefoil — a small shrub, Potentilla fruticosa, of the rose family, native to the Northern temperate region, having pinnate leaves and numerous, showy, bright-yellow flowers.
  • sindbad the sailor — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments), a wealthy citizen of Baghdad who relates the adventures of his seven wonderful voyages.
  • submarine sandwich — a sandwich made with a long cylindrical bread roll
  • take a shine to sb — If you say that someone has taken a shine to another person, you mean that he or she liked them very much at their first meeting.
  • talk between ships — TBS (def 1).
  • the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
  • the black mountain — a mountain range in S Wales, in E Carmarthenshire and W Powys. Highest peak: Carmarthen Van, 802 m (2632 ft)
  • the general public — the people in a society; people in general
  • tighten one's belt — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
  • to spill the beans — If you spill the beans, you tell someone something that people have been trying to keep secret.
  • urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
  • water on the brain — hydrocephalus.
  • 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.
  • widemouth blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
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