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18-letter words containing b, r, a, n, s

  • risk based testing — (testing)   Testing based on identification of potential risks (or "candidate risks"), which should be analysed by the project stakeholder or which might appear during the project's development.
  • run in sb's family — If a characteristic runs in someone's family, it often occurs in members of that family, in different generations.
  • saint bernard pass — either of two passes over the Alps: the Great St Bernard Pass 2472 m (8110 ft) high, east of Mont Blanc between Italy and Switzerland, or the Little St Bernard Pass 2157 m (7077 ft) high, south of Mont Blanc between Italy and France
  • saint john's bread — carob (def 2).
  • saturation bombing — intense area bombing intended to destroy everything in the target area.
  • selective abortion — the aborting of particular embryos for medical or social reasons
  • shorthand notebook — a notebook used by a shorthand writer
  • sierra blanca peak — a mountain in S New Mexico: highest peak in the Sacramento Mountains. 11,997 feet (3651 meters).
  • 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.
  • skinny-rib sweater — a tight-fitting ribbed woollen jumper or pullover
  • small pastern bone — the part of the foot of a horse, cow, etc., between the fetlock and the hoof.
  • social bookmarking — the practice of saving bookmarked Web pages to a public website as a way to share the links with other Internet users: Social bookmarking is a tool that allows you to add tags and comments to your bookmarks.
  • 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.
  • software backplane — (programming, tool)   A CASE framework from Atherton.
  • solomon rabinowitzSolomon, Aleichem, Sholom.
  • stand-by generator — an electrical system which operates automatically in case the usual system malfunctions
  • stand-by passenger — someone who buys a (usually cheaper) ticket, if they are still available, on a plane just before it is about to leave rather than booking in advance
  • stationary bicycle — an exercise bike
  • strangeness number — a quantum number, designating the strangeness of an elementary particle, equivalent to the hypercharge minus the baryon number
  • stroustrup, bjarne — Bjarne Stroustrup
  • sub-saharan africa — the region of Africa to the south of the Sahara desert
  • submarine sandwich — a sandwich made with a long cylindrical bread roll
  • submaxillary gland — submandibular gland.
  • 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.
  • subsistence farmer — a farmer who consumes most of the produce he grows, leaving little or nothing to be marketed
  • task control block — (architecture)   An MVS control block used to communicate information about tasks within an address space that are connected to an MVS subsystem such as MQSeries for MVS/ESA or CICS.
  • the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
  • the stars and bars — the flag of the Confederate States of America
  • timber rattlesnake — a rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus horridus, of the eastern U.S., usually having the body marked with dark crossbands.
  • to bare one's soul — If you bare your soul, you tell someone your most secret thoughts and feelings.
  • to bear witness to — If a person or thing bears witness to something, they show or say that it exists or happened.
  • 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
  • transfinite number — an infinite cardinal or ordinal number.
  • transmission brake — A transmission brake is a brake that operates on the transmission system of a vehicle rather than directly on the wheels.
  • transporter bridge — a bridge for carrying passengers and vehicles by means of a platform suspended from a trolley.
  • transubstantiation — the changing of one substance into another.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • united arab states — a former (1958–61) federation of the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) and Yemen.
  • universal debugger — (tool, parallel)   (udb) KSR's interactive source level debugger for serial and parallel programs written in KSR, Fortran, KSR C and KSR1 assembly language. Udb is a source level debugger for testing and debugging serial and parallel programs; it is compatible with GDB and dbx. The user can direct udb either by typing commands or graphically through an X-based window interface; the latter provides simultaneous display of source code, I/O and instructions. For parallel programs, operations can be carried out per-thread.
  • universalizability — the thesis that any moral judgment must be equally applicable to every relevantly identical situation
  • urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
  • wardrobe assistant — a person who assists the wardrobe mistress in a theatre
  • weberian apparatus — (in certain fishes) a chain of small bones and ligaments connecting the inner ear with the air bladder.
  • westinghouse brake — a railroad air brake operated by compressed air.
  • white man's burden — the alleged duty of white colonizers to care for nonwhite indigenous subjects in their colonial possessions.
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