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18-letter words containing t, h, e, b, l

  • establishmentarian — Adhering to, advocating, or relating to the principle of an established church.
  • exclusive brethren — one of the two main divisions of the Plymouth Brethren, which, in contrast to the Open Brethren, restricts its members' contacts with those outside the sect
  • exhibition killing — the murder of a hostage by terrorists, filmed for broadcasting on television or the internet
  • flash butt welding — a method of welding metal edge-to-edge with a powerful electric flash followed by the application of pressure.
  • gladden sb's heart — If you say that something gladdens someone's heart, you mean that it makes them feel pleased and hopeful.
  • hamilton's problem — Hamiltonian problem
  • handkerchief table — corner table.
  • handlebar mustache — A handlebar mustache is a long thick mustache with curled ends.
  • hawksbill (turtle) — a medium-sized marine turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata, family Cheloniidae) having a hawklike beak and a horny shell from which tortoise shell is obtained
  • honourable mention — If something that you do in a competition is given an honourable mention, it receives special praise from the judges although it does not actually win a prize.
  • 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.
  • htmlcommentbox.com — (web)   A service for adding a comment box to any web page, allowing visitors to leave comments and the site owner to review them.
  • in black and white — without colour
  • in the belief that — If you do one thing in the belief that another thing is true or will happen, you do it because you think, usually wrongly, that it is true or will happen.
  • interchangeability — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
  • lambeth conference — a convention of the bishops of the Anglican communion, held about every 10 years at Lambeth Palace to confer but not to define doctrine or to legislate on ecclesiastical matters.
  • leatherback turtle — a sea turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, having the shell embedded in a leathery skin, reaching a length of more than 7 feet (2.1 meter) and a weight of more than 1000 pounds (450 kg): the largest living sea turtle; an endangered species.
  • legislative branch — the branch of government having the power to make laws; the legislature.
  • lonely hearts club — a club for people who are trying to find a lover or a friend
  • long-horned beetle — any of numerous, often brightly colored beetles of the family Cerambycidae, usually with long antennae, the larva of which bores into the wood of living or decaying trees.
  • 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.
  • malpighian tubules — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
  • middleburg heights — a town in N Ohio.
  • nebular hypothesis — the theory that the solar system evolved from a mass of nebular matter: prominent in the 19th century following its precise formulation by Laplace.
  • noninterchangeable — That cannot be interchanged with another.
  • north attleborough — a city in SE Massachusetts.
  • octachlorobiphenyl — (organic compound) Either of twelve isomers of the polychlorinated biphenyl containing eight chlorine atoms.
  • one's heart bleeds — used to express sympathetic grief, but often used ironically
  • optical brightener — an additive that dyes and brightens fabric or paper
  • plumber's merchant — a shop or business that sells things needed for the job of installing and repairing pipes, fixtures, etc, for water, drainage, and gas
  • probability theory — the theory of analyzing and making statements concerning the probability of the occurrence of uncertain events. Compare probability (def 4).
  • put the clock back — to regress
  • rub shoulders with — to mix with socially or associate with
  • rubbish collection — the collection of domestic refuse for disposal
  • scottish blackface — a common breed of hardy mountain sheep having horns and a black face, kept chiefly on the mainland of Scotland
  • see the last of sb — not encounter sb anymore
  • september holidays — a period of time in September when people do not have to go to school, college or work
  • sindbad the sailor — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments), a wealthy citizen of Baghdad who relates the adventures of his seven wonderful voyages.
  • talk between ships — TBS (def 1).
  • the beautiful game — football
  • the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
  • the black and tans — a specially recruited armed auxiliary police force sent to Ireland in 1921 by the British Government to combat Sinn Féin
  • the black mountain — a mountain range in S Wales, in E Carmarthenshire and W Powys. Highest peak: Carmarthen Van, 802 m (2632 ft)
  • the blue hen state — a nickname for the state of Delaware
  • the bottomless pit — the underworld; hell
  • the general public — the people in a society; people in general
  • the welsh assembly — the elected assembly for Wales, based in Cardiff, that has certain powers devolved from the UK government
  • the-master-builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • thermonuclear bomb — hydrogen bomb.
  • three-body problem — the problem of calculating the motions of three bodies in space moving under the influence of only their mutual gravitational attraction.
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