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18-letter words containing l, o, n, d, b, r

  • one's heart bleeds — used to express sympathetic grief, but often used ironically
  • personal bodyguard — a person employed to protect a particular person
  • piperonyl butoxide — a light-brown liquid, C 1 9 H 3 0 O 5 , used chiefly as a synergist in certain insecticides.
  • ragtag and bobtail — the riffraff; rabble: The ragtag and bobtail of every nation poured into the frontier in search of gold.
  • ribbon development — housing or commercial buildings built along a stretch of road.
  • sindbad the sailor — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments), a wealthy citizen of Baghdad who relates the adventures of his seven wonderful voyages.
  • 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
  • trobriand islander — a native or inhabitant of the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea
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