18-letter words containing g, r, b, i, t
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- radiocarbon dating — the determination of the age of objects of organic origin by measurement of the radioactivity of their carbon content.
- ragtag and bobtail — the riffraff; rabble: The ragtag and bobtail of every nation poured into the frontier in search of gold.
- 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.
- saturation bombing — intense area bombing intended to destroy everything in the target area.
- 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 general public — the people in a society; people in general
- 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.
- wingback formation — single wingback formation.
- wood-burning stove — cooker: fueled by wood