18-letter words containing b, w
- lowell observatory — the astronomical observatory, situated in Flagstaff, Arizona, at which Pluto was discovered in 1930.
- medicine bow range — a range of the Rocky Mountains, in Wyoming and Colorado. Highest peak, Medicine Bow Peak, 12,014 feet (3662 meters).
- milkweed butterfly — monarch butterfly.
- mixed-flow turbine — a water turbine in which water flows radially and axially through the rotating vanes
- mobility allowance — an allowance paid by the government to help people who have limited mobility
- neighborhood watch — a neighborhood surveillance program or group in which residents keep watch over one another's houses, patrol the streets, etc., in an attempt to prevent crime.
- network byte order — (networking) The order in which the bytes of a multi-byte number are transmitted on a network - most significant byte first (as in "big-endian" storage). This may or may not match the order in which numbers are normally stored in memory for a particular processor.
- new american bible — an English translation of the Bible based on the original languages, prepared by Catholic Biblical scholars, and first published in 1970.
- northwest by north — a point on the compass, 11°15′ north of northwest. Abbreviation: NWbN.
- not breathe a word — to take air, oxygen, etc., into the lungs and expel it; inhale and exhale; respire.
- pileolated warbler — either of two western subspecies of Wilson's warbler.
- prairie wake-robin — a woodland trillium, Trillium recurvatum, of the central U.S., having purple-mottled leaves and brown-purple flowers.
- precipitable water — the total water vapor contained in a unit vertical column of the atmosphere.
- rosebay willowherb — a perennial onagraceous plant, Chamerion (formerly Epilobium) angustifolium, that has spikes of deep pink flowers and is widespread in open places throughout N temperate regions
- row address strobe — (storage) (RAS) An input to a dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) to indicate that the row address lines are valid.
- rub shoulders with — to mix with socially or associate with
- skinny-rib sweater — a tight-fitting ribbed woollen jumper or pullover
- software backplane — (programming, tool) A CASE framework from Atherton.
- solomon rabinowitz — Solomon, Aleichem, Sholom.
- southwest by south — a point on the compass 11°15′ south of southwest. Abbreviation: SWbS.
- stomach sweetbread — sweetbread (def 1).
- submarine sandwich — a sandwich made with a long cylindrical bread roll
- talk between ships — TBS (def 1).
- the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
- the powers that be — You can refer to people in authority as the powers that be, especially when you want to say that you disagree with them or do not understand what they say or do.
- the weather bureau — the national agency responsible for collecting data about the weather and issuing forecasts
- the welsh assembly — the elected assembly for Wales, based in Cardiff, that has certain powers devolved from the UK government
- to bear witness to — If a person or thing bears witness to something, they show or say that it exists or happened.
- to let it be known — If you let it be known that something is the case, or you let something be known, you make sure that people know it or can find out about it.
- to sweep the board — If someone sweeps the board in a competition or election, they win nearly everything that it is possible to win.
- two-chamber system — the system of having two parliamentary chambers, as the House of Lords and the House of Commons in the United Kingdom
- up to one's elbows — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
- wardrobe assistant — a person who assists the wardrobe mistress in a theatre
- water on the brain — hydrocephalus.
- web request broker — (web) (WRB) Part of Oracle Corporation's WebServer suite of programs. It is a high-performance, multi-threaded HTTP server which allows clients' requests to be directly translated into Oracle 7 database scripts, and automatically translates the results of the query back into HTML for delivery to the client browser.
- 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.
- what has become of — If you wonder what has become of someone or something, you wonder where they are and what has happened to them.
- 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.
- widemouth blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
- wingback formation — single wingback formation.
- without obligation — In advertisements, if a product or a service is available without obligation, you do not have to pay for that product or service until you have tried it and are satisfied with it.
- woe betide someone — misfortune will befall someone
- 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.
- yellow book cd-rom — A CD-ROM format which is ISO 9660 compliant and uses mode 1 addressing. Discs of this type can be played on most drives and would be appropriate for most multimedia applications which have been developed for personal computers.