17-letter words containing b, i, t, n, g
- teething problems — If a project or new product has teething problems, it has problems in its early stages or when it first becomes available.
- teething troubles — Teething troubles are the same as teething problems.
- telephone banking — a facility enabling customers to make use of banking services, such as oral payment instructions, account movements, raising loans, etc, over the telephone rather than by personal visit
- terrorist bombing — the bombing of a place carried out in order to achieve some goal
- the whole boiling — the whole lot
- third-degree burn — a burned place or area: a burn where fire had ripped through the forest.
- tibetan highlands — Tibet, Plateau of.
- turbinado (sugar) — a partially refined, granulated, pale-brown sugar obtained by washing raw sugar in a centrifuge until most of the molasses is removed
- undistinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- unintelligibility — the quality of being unintelligible
- unlisted building — a building that is not amongst those buildings officially recognized as having special historical or architectural interest and therefore protected from demolition or alteration
- vanity publishing — the practice of the author of a book paying all or most of the costs of its publication
- vegetable tanning — the act or process of tanning hide by the infusion of plant extract.
- waitangi tribunal — (in New Zealand) a government tribunal empowered to examine and make recommendations on Māori claims under the Treaty of Waitangi
- wang laboratories — (body) Computer manufacturer, known for their office automation products and the Wang PC. Quarterly sales $208M, profits $3M (Aug 1994).
- wedding breakfast — meal served at wedding reception
- wheatstone bridge — a circuit for measuring an unknown resistance by comparing it with known resistances.
- with guns blazing — If you come out with guns blazing or with all guns blazing, you put all your effort and energy into trying to achieve something.
- working substance — a substance, usually a fluid, that undergoes changes in pressure, temperature, volume, or form as part of a process for accomplishing work.