19-letter words containing b, o, n, i, s
- the best of friends — If two people are the best of friends, they are close friends, especially when they have had a disagreement or fight in the past.
- the compassion club — (in Canada) a nonprofit organization that provides uncontaminated cannabis for medical purposes and natural therapies in a safe environment
- to be headline news — to attract a lot of attention from newspapers
- to be in the charts — (of a record or pop group) to be popular
- to be running short — If you are running short of something or running low on something, you do not have much of it left. If a supply of something is running short or running low, there is not much of it left.
- to be seeing things — to believe one is seeing or hearing something that is not really there
- to rack your brains — If you rack your brains, you try very hard to think of something.
- toshiba corporation — (company) A Japanese technology manufacturer with 364 subsidiaries worldwide. Toshiba makes and sells electronics for home, office, industry and health care including information and communication systems, electronic components, heavy electrical apparatus, consumer products and medical diagnostic imaging equipment. In FY 2003-4, Toshiba employed 161,286 people.
- u.s. robotics, inc. — (company) A US modem manufacturer. Finger: usr.com. E-mail: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> (USA and Canada), <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> (Europe), <[email protected]> (other).
- upper carboniferous — Pennsylvanian (defs 2, 4).
- wandering albatross — a large albatross, Diomedea exulans, of southern waters, having the plumage mostly white with dark markings on the upper parts.
- wassermann antibody — reagin (def 1).
- websters-dictionary — Informal. a dictionary of the English language, especially American English, such as Dictionary.com.
- west dunbartonshire — a council area of W central Scotland, on Loch Lomond and the Clyde estuary: corresponds to part of the historical county of Dunbartonshire; part of Strathclyde Region from 1975 to 1996: engineering industries. Administrative centre: Dumbarton. Pop: 92 320 (2003 est). Area: 162 sq km (63 sq miles)
- yablonovy mountains — a mountain range in Siberia. Highest peak: 1680 m (5512 ft)
- zero-base budgeting — a process in government and corporate finance of justifying an overall budget or individual budgeted items each fiscal year or each review period rather than dealing only with proposed changes from a previous budget. Abbreviation: ZBB.