18-letter words containing b, o, a, d
- on one's beam-ends — out of resources; destitute
- one's heart bleeds — used to express sympathetic grief, but often used ironically
- open pandora's box — If someone or something opens Pandora's box or opens a Pandora's box, they do something that causes a lot of problems to appear that did not exist or were not known about before.
- personal bodyguard — a person employed to protect a particular person
- pileolated warbler — either of two western subspecies of Wilson's warbler.
- price on sb's head — If there is a price on someone 's head, an amount of money has been offered for the capture or killing of that person.
- provably difficult — The set or property of problems for which it can be proven that no polynomial-time algorithm exists, only exponential-time algorithms.
- put a bold face on — to seem bold or confident about
- radio range beacon — a radio transmitter that utilizes two or more directional antennas and transmits signals differing with direction, permitting a flier receiving a signal to determine his or her approximate bearing from the transmitter without a radio compass.
- radiocarbon dating — the determination of the age of objects of organic origin by measurement of the radioactivity of their carbon content.
- ragtag and bobtail — the riffraff; rabble: The ragtag and bobtail of every nation poured into the frontier in search of gold.
- reggio di calabria — a seaport in S Italy, on the Strait of Messina: almost totally destroyed by an earthquake 1908.
- rheims-douay bible — Douay Bible.
- ride a hobby horse — an activity or interest pursued for pleasure or relaxation and not as a main occupation: Her hobbies include stamp-collecting and woodcarving.
- row address strobe — (storage) (RAS) An input to a dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) to indicate that the row address lines are valid.
- safety-deposit box — a lockable metal box or drawer, especially in a bank vault, used for safely storing valuable papers, jewelry, etc.
- saint john's bread — carob (def 2).
- schofield barracks — a town on central Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- september holidays — a period of time in September when people do not have to go to school, college or work
- shorthand notebook — a notebook used by a shorthand writer
- simone de beauvoir — Simone [see-mawn] /siˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), (Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand) 1908–86, French playwright, novelist, and essayist.
- sindbad the sailor — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments), a wealthy citizen of Baghdad who relates the adventures of his seven wonderful voyages.
- 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.
- sodium bicarbonate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, in powder or granules, NaHCO 3 , usually prepared by the reaction of soda ash with carbon dioxide or obtained from the intermediate product of the Solvay process by purification: used chiefly in the manufacture of sodium salts, baking powder, and beverages, as a laboratory reagent, as a fire extinguisher, and in medicine as an antacid.
- sodium tetraborate — borax1 .
- stand-by generator — an electrical system which operates automatically in case the usual system malfunctions
- stomach sweetbread — sweetbread (def 1).
- 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.
- subsidiary company — a company whose controlling interest is owned by another company.
- supraorbital ridge — browridge.
- the back of beyond — a very remote place
- the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
- to be above ground — to be alive
- to be on the radar — to be noticed or important
- to be said for sth — If you say there is a lot to be said for something, you mean you think it has a lot of good qualities or aspects.
- 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.
- to sweep the board — If someone sweeps the board in a competition or election, they win nearly everything that it is possible to win.
- transporter bridge — a bridge for carrying passengers and vehicles by means of a platform suspended from a trolley.
- trobriand islander — a native or inhabitant of the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea
- under one's breath — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
- under the jackboot — If a country or group of people is under the jackboot, they are suffering because the government is cruel and undemocratic.
- urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
- wardrobe assistant — a person who assists the wardrobe mistress in a theatre
- widemouth blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.