21-letter words containing s, t, r, e, b

for someone's benefit — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
for the benefit of sb — If you say that someone is doing something for the benefit of a particular person, you mean that they are doing it for that person.
franco-belgian system — French system.
friends with benefits — friends who have a casual sexual relationship with no expectation of commitment
from dan to beersheba — from one end of Israel to the other: Judg. 20:1
gas blanketed storage — Gas blanketed storage is the use of gas to fill empty space in a storage tank.
get one's breath back — When you get your breath back after doing something energetic, you start breathing normally again.
give sb a green light — If someone in authority gives you a green light, they give you permission to do something.
give sb the runaround — If someone gives you the runaround, they deliberately do not give you all the information or help that you want, and send you to another person or place to get it.
give someone the bird — to tell someone rudely to depart; scoff at; hiss
go someone one better — of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
gobject introspection — (programming) A GNOME project that defines a syntax for introspection annotation pragmas to be used in the GObject library source code. Rather than actual introspection, these are intended to allow automatic generation of bindings (APIs) to expose the library to higher-level languages. The sort of information provided is the type and direction (in, out, inout) of function parameters and the responsibility for freeing memory used by data structures.
goldbach's conjecture — the conjecture that every even number greater than two is the sum of two prime numbers
great st bernard pass — St. Bernard, Great.
greenwich observatory — the national astronomical observatory of Great Britain, housed in a castle in E Sussex; formerly located at Greenwich.
harriet beecher stowe — Harriet (Elizabeth) Beecher, 1811–96, U.S. abolitionist and novelist.
have heard sth before — If you say that you have heard something before, you mean that you are not interested in it, or do not believe it, or are not surprised about it, because you already know about it or have experienced it.
hierarchical database — (database) A kind of database management system that links records together like a family tree such that each record type has only one owner, e.g. an order is owned by only one customer. Hierarchical structures were widely used in the first mainframe database management systems. However, due to their restrictions, they often cannot be used to relate structures that exist in the real world.
horizontal stabilizer — the horizontal surface, usually fixed, of an aircraft empennage, to which the elevator is hinged.
ibm customer engineer — (job) (CE) A hardware guy from IBM.
imprecise probability — (probability) A probability that is represented as an interval (as opposed to a single number) included in [0,1].
integer specbaseratio — SPECbase_int92
intersubstitutability — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
joseph bonaparte gulf — an inlet of the Timor Sea in N Australia. Width: 360 km (225 miles)
lady macbeth strategy — a strategy in a takeover battle in which a third party makes a bid acceptable to the target company, appearing to act as a white knight but subsequently joining forces with the original (unwelcome) bidder
language-based editor — language-sensitive editor
lap and shoulder belt — a car seat belt
league of arab states — Arab League.
leave sb in the lurch — If someone leaves you in the lurch, they go away or stop helping you at a very difficult time.
loch ness monster bug — (humour) (Or "Bugfoot") A bug which cannot be reproduced or has only been sighted by one person. Named after the mythical creature claimed to inhabit Loch Ness in Scotland.
long-term liabilities — Long-term liabilities are debts that a company does not have to pay back for a year or more.
lull before the storm — If you describe a situation as the lull before the storm, you mean that although it is calm now, there is going to be trouble in the future.
male pattern baldness — a pattern of hair loss in males, dependent on the presence of the androgenic hormone testoterone, in which the scalp hair eventually covers only the back of the head and temples.
male-pattern baldness — inherited baldness characterized by the gradual loss of hair from the front or top of the head
marketable securities — Marketable securities are securities that can easily be sold quickly on the open market.
mass-market paperback — a relatively inexpensive paperbound book, typically measuring about 4½ × 7 inches (11 × 18 cm), that is distributed on newsstands, in supermarkets, etc., as well as in bookstores.
mauna kea observatory — an astronomical observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, situated at an altitude of 13,600 feet (4145 meters).
mayor of casterbridge — a novel (1886) by Thomas Hardy.
mistress of the robes — (in Britain) a lady of high rank in charge of the Queen's wardrobe
negotiable instrument — order or promise to pay money
negotiable securities — securities that are legally transferable in title from one party to another
night-blooming cereus — any of various cacti of the genera Hylocereus, Peniocereus, Nyctocereus, or Selenicereus, having large, usually white flowers that open at night.
northumberland strait — the part of the Gulf of St. Lawrence that separates Prince Edward Island from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, in SE Canada. About 200 miles (320 km) long; 9–30 miles (15–48 km) wide.
not hold one's breath — If you say that you won't hold your breath, you mean that you do not expect something to happen even though someone has suggested that it might.
object request broker — (programming) (ORB) Part of the OMG CORBA specification, an ORB's basic function is to pass method invocation requests to the correct objects and return the results to the caller. To achieve this the ORB must be able must be able to identify and locate objects, handle connections from invoker and the data returned from methods. Communication between the ORB and applications are achieved through IDL stubs and skeletons whilst the OMG has specified IIOP as the protocol through which ORBs may communicate with each other. Using IIOP, an ORB may request method invocations from a remote object.
observation satellite — an unmanned satellite that observes the earth and gathers data
on o's best behaviour — If someone is on their best behaviour, they are trying very hard to behave well.
optical double (star) — double star (sense 2)
pipelined burst cache — Pipeline Burst Cache
poke borak at someone — to jeer at someone

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