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18-letter words containing g, i, b, e, t

  • give sb the creeps — If someone or something gives you the creeps, they make you feel very nervous or frightened.
  • give sb their head — If you give someone their head, you allow them to do what they want to do, without trying to advise or stop them.
  • golden gate bridge — a bridge connecting N California with San Francisco peninsula. 4200-foot (1280-meter) center span.
  • great barrier reef — coral structure off Australian coast
  • have a thing about — If you have a thing about someone or something, you have very strong feelings about them.
  • hermaphrodite brig — a two-masted sailing vessel, square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft-rigged on the mainmast.
  • herringbone stitch — a type of cross-stitch in embroidery similar to the catch stitch in sewing, consisting of an overlapped V -shaped stitch that when worked in a continuous pattern produces a twill-weave effect.
  • interchangeability — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
  • intimate borrowing — the borrowing of linguistic forms by one language or dialect from another when both occupy a single geographical or cultural community.
  • kirkcudbrightshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
  • knight of the bath — a member of a knightly order founded by George I of England in 1725.
  • labeled bracketing — a representation of the constituent structure of a string, as a word or sentence, comparable to a tree diagram, in which each constituent is shown in brackets and given a subscript grammatical label, with each bracketed item corresponding to a node in a tree diagram.
  • legislative branch — the branch of government having the power to make laws; the legislature.
  • malpighian tubules — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
  • manufacturing base — the manufacturing industries of an area or a country considered as a unit and a constituent part of the economy
  • middleburg heights — a town in N Ohio.
  • moving bed reactor — A moving bed reactor is a reactor in which a layer of catalyst in the form of granules is moved between a reaction area and a regeneration area.
  • 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.
  • noninterchangeable — That cannot be interchanged with another.
  • obedience training — the training of an animal, especially a dog, to obey certain commands.
  • objective genitive — a use of the genitive case to express an objective relationship, as in Latin timor mortis (fear of death)
  • optical brightener — an additive that dyes and brightens fabric or paper
  • 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.
  • petite bourgeoisie — the portion of the bourgeoisie having the least wealth and lowest social status; the lower middle class.
  • point-bearing pile — a pile depending on the soil or rock beneath its foot for support.
  • punishment beating — a form of corporal punishment carried out by a paramilitary organization on a member of another sectarian organization, usually in Northern Ireland
  • 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.
  • selective breeding — the raising of animals with particular genetic traits through careful choice of parents
  • sir george gilbert — Barbara Ann, 1928–2012, Canadian figure skater.
  • squirting cucumber — a Mediterranean plant, Ecballium elaterium, of the gourd family, whose ripened fruit forcibly ejects the seeds and juice.
  • supraorbital ridge — browridge.
  • the beautiful game — football
  • the general public — the people in a society; people in general
  • tighten one's belt — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
  • tip of the iceberg — a large floating mass of ice, detached from a glacier and carried out to sea.
  • 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.
  • wood-burning stove — cooker: fueled by wood
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