18-letter words containing i, n, d, e, b, t

fabric conditioner — a product used when washing clothes to make them feel softer
fire and brimstone — When people talk about fire and brimstone, they are referring to hell and how they think people are punished there after death.
fire-and-brimstone — threatening punishment in the hereafter: a fire-and-brimstone sermon.
flash butt welding — a method of welding metal edge-to-edge with a powerful electric flash followed by the application of pressure.
gilbert and george — a team of artists, Gilbert Proesch, Italian, born 1942, and George Passmore, British, born 1943: noted esp for their photomontages and performance works
golden gate bridge — a bridge connecting N California with San Francisco peninsula. 4200-foot (1280-meter) center span.
handkerchief table — corner table.
how the wind blows — air in natural motion, as that moving horizontally at any velocity along the earth's surface: A gentle wind blew through the valley. High winds were forecast.
in black and white — without colour
indecent behaviour — the offence of committing indecent acts
indestructibleness — The quality of being indestructible.
individual liberty — the liberty of an individual to exercise freely those rights generally accepted as being outside of governmental control.
indolebutyric acid — a white or yellowish, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 12 H 13 O 2 N, a plant hormone similar to indoleacetic acid and used for the same purposes.
informatory double — a double intended to inform one's partner that one has a strong hand and to urge a bid regardless of the strength of his or her hand.
interbroker dealer — a specialist who matches the needs of different market makers and facilitates dealings between them
interdealer broker — an agent who is paid a commission to bring buyers and sellers together
interdependability — capable of being depended on; worthy of trust; reliable: a dependable employee.
invalidity benefit — (formerly, in the British National Insurance scheme) a weekly payment to a person who had been off work through illness for more than six months: replaced by incapacity benefit in 1995
kirtland's warbler — a wood warbler, Dendroica kirtlandii, breeding only in north-central Michigan and wintering in the Bahamas, bluish gray above, striped with black and pale yellow below: an endangered species.
knotted cranesbill — a British wildflower, Geranium nodosum, an meadow geranium with bright pink or purple flowers
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.
little st. bernard — Great, a mountain pass between SW Switzerland and NW Italy, in the Pennine Alps: Napoleon led his army through it in 1800; location of a hospice. 8108 feet (2470 meters) high.
loschmidt's number — the number of molecules in one cubic centimeter of an ideal gas at standard temperature and pressure, equal to 2.687 × 10 19.
mandelbrot, benoit — Benoit Mandelbrot
metabolic syndrome — Pathology. a group of medical conditions present simultaneously in a patient, as high blood pressure, low HDL cholesterol levels, and an excess of abdominal fat, that increases a person's risk of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. Also called insulin resistance syndrome.
mixed-flow turbine — a water turbine in which water flows radially and axially through the rotating vanes
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.
north bedfordshire — a city in Bedfordshire, in central England.
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.
piperonyl butoxide — a light-brown liquid, C 1 9 H 3 0 O 5 , used chiefly as a synergist in certain insecticides.
public expenditure — spending by central government, local authorities, and public corporations
pyramus and thisbe — (in Greek legend) two lovers of Babylon: Pyramus, wrongly supposing Thisbe to be dead, killed himself and she, encountering him in his death throes, did the same
ribbon development — housing or commercial buildings built along a stretch of road.
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.
saint bernard pass — either of two passes over the Alps: the Great St Bernard Pass 2472 m (8110 ft) high, east of Mont Blanc between Italy and Switzerland, or the Little St Bernard Pass 2157 m (7077 ft) high, south of Mont Blanc between Italy and France
saint john's bread — carob (def 2).
selective breeding — the raising of animals with particular genetic traits through careful choice of parents
sindbad the sailor — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments), a wealthy citizen of Baghdad who relates the adventures of his seven wonderful voyages.
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.
subordinate clause — a clause that modifies the principal clause or some part of it or that serves a noun function in the principal clause, as when she arrived in the sentence I was there when she arrived or that she has arrived in the sentence I doubt that she has arrived.
the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
to be tickled pink — If you are tickled pink, you are extremely pleased about something.
transporter bridge — a bridge for carrying passengers and vehicles by means of a platform suspended from a trolley.
trobriand islander — a native or inhabitant of the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea
united arab states — a former (1958–61) federation of the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) and Yemen.
urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
wardrobe assistant — a person who assists the wardrobe mistress in a theatre
white man's burden — the alleged duty of white colonizers to care for nonwhite indigenous subjects in their colonial possessions.

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