18-letter words containing b, r, i, s
- stationary bicycle — an exercise bike
- street credibility — street cred.
- sub-saharan africa — the region of Africa to the south of the Sahara desert
- subatomic particle — physics:
- 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
- substitute teacher — educator: replaces sb temporarily
- supraorbital ridge — browridge.
- the baptist church — any of various Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of believers
- the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
- the-master-builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- timber rattlesnake — a rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus horridus, of the eastern U.S., usually having the body marked with dark crossbands.
- 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 bear witness to — If a person or thing bears witness to something, they show or say that it exists or happened.
- 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
- 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).
- uriniferous tubule — a urine-bearing tubule in a nephron of a kidney.
- 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.
- whittaker chambers — Robert, 1802–71, Scottish publisher and editor.
- women's liberation — a movement to combat sexual discrimination and to gain full legal, economic, vocational, educational, and social rights and opportunities for women, equal to those of men.
- wood-burning stove — cooker: fueled by wood
- working men's club — A working men's club is a place where working people, especially men, can go to relax, drink alcoholic drinks, and sometimes watch live entertainment.