18-letter words containing b, l, e, o
- rheims-douay bible — Douay Bible.
- ribbon development — housing or commercial buildings built along a stretch of road.
- rosebay willowherb — a perennial onagraceous plant, Chamerion (formerly Epilobium) angustifolium, that has spikes of deep pink flowers and is widespread in open places throughout N temperate regions
- rub shoulders with — to mix with socially or associate with
- rubbish collection — the collection of domestic refuse for disposal
- schofield barracks — a town on central Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- scottish blackface — a common breed of hardy mountain sheep having horns and a black face, kept chiefly on the mainland of Scotland
- see the last of sb — not encounter sb anymore
- selective abortion — the aborting of particular embryos for medical or social reasons
- september holidays — a period of time in September when people do not have to go to school, college or work
- 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
- 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.
- sir george gilbert — Barbara Ann, 1928–2012, Canadian figure skater.
- slobodan milosevic — Slobodan [sloh-buh-dain] /ˈsloʊ bəˌdɛən/ (Show IPA), 1941–2006, Yugoslav and Serbian politician: president of Serbia 1989–97, president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1997–2000, accused of war crimes 2001.
- small pastern bone — the part of the foot of a horse, cow, etc., between the fetlock and the hoof.
- software backplane — (programming, tool) A CASE framework from Atherton.
- stationary bicycle — an exercise bike
- subatomic particle — physics:
- subject complement — a word or a group of words, usually functioning as an adjective or noun, that is used in the predicate following a copula and describes or is identified with the subject of the sentence, as sleepy in The travelers became sleepy.
- subordinate clause — a clause that modifies the principal clause or some part of it or that serves a noun function in the principal clause, as when she arrived in the sentence I was there when she arrived or that she has arrived in the sentence I doubt that she has arrived.
- supraorbital ridge — browridge.
- symbolist movement — a movement beginning in French and Belgian poetry towards the end of the 19th century with the verse of Mallarmé, Valéry, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Maeterlinck, and others, and seeking to express states of mind rather than objective reality by making use of the power of words and images to suggest as well as denote
- tectorial membrane — membrane in the inner ear that covers the organ of Corti
- teleobjective lens — telephoto lens.
- television cabinet — a cabinet on which a television set is placed or in which it is encased
- 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 bottomless pit — the underworld; hell
- thermonuclear bomb — hydrogen bomb.
- three-body problem — the problem of calculating the motions of three bodies in space moving under the influence of only their mutual gravitational attraction.
- tick all the boxes — to satisfy all of the apparent requirements for success
- tighten one's belt — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
- to bare one's soul — If you bare your soul, you tell someone your most secret thoughts and feelings.
- to be tickled pink — If you are tickled pink, you are extremely pleased about something.
- to bite the bullet — If someone bites the bullet, they accept that they have to do something unpleasant but necessary.
- to close the books — to balance accounts in order to prepare a statement or report
- to let it be known — If you let it be known that something is the case, or you let something be known, you make sure that people know it or can find out about it.
- to look one's best — If you look your best, you are looking as smart and attractive as you can.
- to spill the beans — If you spill the beans, you tell someone something that people have been trying to keep secret.
- too clever by half — If someone is too clever by half, they are very clever and they show their cleverness in a way that annoys other people.
- 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.
- up to one's elbows — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
- up to the eyeballs — You use up to the eyeballs to emphasize that someone is in an undesirable state to a very great degree.
- uriniferous tubule — a urine-bearing tubule in a nephron of a kidney.
- widemouth blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
- 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.
- 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.