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18-letter words containing e, b, o, a, t

  • net book agreement — a former agreement between UK publishers and booksellers that until 1995 prohibited booksellers from undercutting the price of books sold in bookshops
  • nobiliary particle — a preposition forming part of a title of nobility or surname, as French de or German von.
  • non-understandable — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
  • noninterchangeable — That cannot be interchanged with another.
  • north attleborough — a city in SE Massachusetts.
  • northeast by north — a point on the compass 11°15′ north of northeast. Abbreviation: NEbN.
  • not breathe a word — to take air, oxygen, etc., into the lungs and expel it; inhale and exhale; respire.
  • notifiable disease — any one of a number of infectious diseases of humans and animals, that must be reported to the public health authorities
  • obedience training — the training of an animal, especially a dog, to obey certain commands.
  • object-orientation — object-oriented
  • objective idealism — a form of idealism asserting that the act of experiencing has a reality combining and transcending the natures of the object experienced and of the mind of the observer.
  • objective modula-2 — (language)   (Or "ObjM2") An extension to Modula-2 for Cocoa and GNUstep software development. Objective Modula-2 follows the Objective-C object model and retains the bracketed Smalltalk message passing syntax used in Objective-C. Classes written in ObjM2 can be used within ObjC and vice versa. ObjM2 also retains Modula-2's data encapsulation features, namely nested modules with explicit import and export lists. Due to the strict type checking in Modula-2, ObjM2 can be considered a much safer programming language than is ObjC, yet losing none of the capabilities of ObjC.
  • oblique-slip fault — a fault on which the movement is along both the strike and the dip of the fault
  • octachlorobiphenyl — (organic compound) Either of twelve isomers of the polychlorinated biphenyl containing eight chlorine atoms.
  • on the back burner — low priority
  • one's heart bleeds — used to express sympathetic grief, but often used ironically
  • optical brightener — an additive that dyes and brightens fabric or paper
  • oriental alabaster — alabaster (def 2).
  • pileolated warbler — either of two western subspecies of Wilson's warbler.
  • point-bearing pile — a pile depending on the soil or rock beneath its foot for support.
  • population balance — A population balance is a model showing particle sizes during a grinding process, which is used when designing a process.
  • portable equipment — Portable equipment is electrical equipment that can easily be moved from one place to another while in operation or while connected to the supply.
  • prepositional verb — a combination of verb and preposition, often with idiomatic meaning, differing from other phrasal verbs in that an object must always follow the preposition, as take after in The children take after their mother.
  • probability theory — the theory of analyzing and making statements concerning the probability of the occurrence of uncertain events. Compare probability (def 4).
  • protease inhibitor — a drug that inhibits the action of protease, especially any of a class of antiviral drugs that prevent the cleavage and replication of HIV proteins.
  • public examination — an examination, such as a GCSE exam, that is set by a central examining board
  • put a bold face on — to seem bold or confident about
  • put the clock back — to regress
  • rabbit's-foot fern — hare's-foot fern.
  • rabbit-foot clover — a plant, Trifolium arvense, having trifoliate leaves with narrow leaflets and fuzzy, cylindrical, grayish-pink flower heads.
  • rabbit-proof fence — a fence through which rabbits are unable to pass
  • 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.
  • remains to be seen — If you say that it remains to be seen whether something will happen, you mean that nobody knows whether it will happen.
  • reverberation time — the time it takes for a sound made in a room to diminish by 60 decibels.
  • row address strobe — (storage)   (RAS) An input to a dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) to indicate that the row address lines are valid.
  • safety-deposit box — a lockable metal box or drawer, especially in a bank vault, used for safely storing valuable papers, jewelry, etc.
  • saint john's bread — carob (def 2).
  • scottish blackface — a common breed of hardy mountain sheep having horns and a black face, kept chiefly on the mainland of Scotland
  • see the last of sb — not encounter sb anymore
  • selective abortion — the aborting of particular embryos for medical or social reasons
  • september holidays — a period of time in September when people do not have to go to school, college or work
  • seven-league boots — mythical boots that allowed the wearer to travel seven leagues (a former unit of measurement), ie a great length, at each step
  • shorthand notebook — a notebook used by a shorthand writer
  • sindbad the sailor — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments), a wealthy citizen of Baghdad who relates the adventures of his seven wonderful voyages.
  • small pastern bone — the part of the foot of a horse, cow, etc., between the fetlock and the hoof.
  • 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.
  • sodium tetraborate — borax1 .
  • software backplane — (programming, tool)   A CASE framework from Atherton.
  • southeast by south — a point on the compass 11°15′ south of southeast. Abbreviation: SEbS.
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