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18-letter words containing b, r, i, n, g, t

  • pattern bargaining — a collective bargaining technique in which contract terms in one settlement are used as models to be imposed on other negotiating parties within an industry.
  • point-bearing pile — a pile depending on the soil or rock beneath its foot for support.
  • 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.
  • range of stability — the angle to the perpendicular through which a vessel may be heeled without losing the ability to right itself.
  • relational algebra — (database, theory)   A family of algebra with a well-founded semantics used for modelling the data stored in relational databases, and defining queries on it. The main operations of the relational algebra are the set operations (such as union, intersection, and cartesian product), selection (keeping only some lines of a table) and the projection (keeping only some columns). The relational data model describes how the data is structured.
  • 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.
  • saturation bombing — intense area bombing intended to destroy everything in the target area.
  • selective breeding — the raising of animals with particular genetic traits through careful choice of parents
  • squirting cucumber — a Mediterranean plant, Ecballium elaterium, of the gourd family, whose ripened fruit forcibly ejects the seeds and juice.
  • the general public — the people in a society; people in general
  • transporter bridge — a bridge for carrying passengers and vehicles by means of a platform suspended from a trolley.
  • travelling library — a mobile library in which a vehicle such as a van delivers books to be borrowed
  • treaty obligations — obligations or duties that must be carried out by a party as according to a treaty they have entered into
  • urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
  • westinghouse brake — a railroad air brake operated by compressed air.
  • wingback formation — single wingback formation.
  • wood-burning stove — cooker: fueled by wood
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