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22-letter words containing b, r, o, n, t, i

  • south african republic — former name of Transvaal.
  • start the ball rolling — to open or initiate (an action, discussion, movement, etc)
  • subornation of perjury — the offense of bribing or otherwise persuading another to commit perjury.
  • swings and roundabouts — If you say that a situation is swings and roundabouts, you mean that there are as many gains as there are losses.
  • tapered roller bearing — a rolling bearing that uses tapered rollers running in coned races and is able to accept axial thrust as well as providing shaft location
  • the end of the rainbow — If you say that something is at the end of the rainbow, you mean that people want it but it is almost impossible to obtain or achieve.
  • the golden gate bridge — a bridge crossing the strait between the Pacific and San Francisco Bay, with a central span of 1280 m (4200 ft)
  • to be full to bursting — to be very full
  • to be in running order — if something is in running order it is functioning correctly and efficiently
  • to be taken for a ride — If you say that someone has been taken for a ride, you mean that they have been deceived or cheated.
  • to cast your mind back — If you cast your mind back to a time in the past, you think about what happened then.
  • transition probability — the probability of going from a given state to the next state in a Markov process.
  • turbo-propeller engine — a jet engine with a turbine-driven propeller that produces the principal thrust, augmented by the thrust of the jet exhaust.
  • underground combustion — Underground combustion is the process of heating oil to allow it to flow more easily and make it easier to recover.
  • urban district council — a council of an urban district that, in conjunction with a county council, has responsibilities for local government issues
  • vibration white finger — a condition affecting workers using vibrating machinery, which causes damage to the blood vessels and nerves of the fingers and leads to a permanent loss of feeling
  • volume of distribution — A volume of distribution is the hypothetical volume of body fluid that would be required to dissolve the amount of drug needed to achieve the same concentration in the blood.
  • william's bon chrétien — a variety of pear that has large yellow juicy sweet fruit
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