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18-letter words containing b, o, n, u, s, t

  • productivity bonus — an extra payment made to workers for being more productive or yielding more favourable results than normal
  • prometheus unbound — a drama in verse (1820) by Shelley.
  • rubbish collection — the collection of domestic refuse for disposal
  • saturation bombing — intense area bombing intended to destroy everything in the target area.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • stroustrup, bjarne — Bjarne Stroustrup
  • sub-classification — to arrange in subclasses.
  • 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.
  • the queen of sheba — a queen of the Sabeans, who visited Solomon (I Kings 10:1–13)
  • to bare one's soul — If you bare your soul, you tell someone your most secret thoughts and feelings.
  • to put years on sb — if you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has put years on someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much older
  • transubstantiation — the changing of one substance into another.
  • turn one's back on — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
  • under one's breath — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
  • up to one's elbows — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
  • urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
  • uriniferous tubule — a urine-bearing tubule in a nephron of a kidney.
  • westinghouse brake — a railroad air brake operated by compressed air.
  • wood-burning stove — cooker: fueled by wood
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