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

  • to bear witness to — If a person or thing bears witness to something, they show or say that it exists or happened.
  • to let it be known — If you let it be known that something is the case, or you let something be known, you make sure that people know it or can find out about it.
  • to spill the beans — If you spill the beans, you tell someone something that people have been trying to keep secret.
  • transfinite number — an infinite cardinal or ordinal number.
  • transmission brake — A transmission brake is a brake that operates on the transmission system of a vehicle rather than directly on the wheels.
  • transporter bridge — a bridge for carrying passengers and vehicles by means of a platform suspended from a trolley.
  • transubstantiation — the changing of one substance into another.
  • 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
  • trobriand islander — a native or inhabitant of the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea
  • turbine ventilator — a ventilator, usually mounted on the roof of a building, deck of a ship, etc., having at its head a globular, vaned rotor that is rotated by the wind, conveying air through a duct to and from a chamber below.
  • united arab states — a former (1958–61) federation of the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) and Yemen.
  • universalizability — the thesis that any moral judgment must be equally applicable to every relevantly identical situation
  • urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
  • uriniferous tubule — a urine-bearing tubule in a nephron of a kidney.
  • visible panty line — the line of someone's underwear which can be seen through trousers
  • vitelline membrane — the membrane surrounding the egg yolk.
  • voluntary abortion — abortion (def 1).
  • voluntary-abortion — Also called voluntary abortion. the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to end a pregnancy.
  • wardrobe assistant — a person who assists the wardrobe mistress in a theatre
  • water on the brain — hydrocephalus.
  • weberian apparatus — (in certain fishes) a chain of small bones and ligaments connecting the inner ear with the air bladder.
  • westinghouse brake — a railroad air brake operated by compressed air.
  • white man's burden — the alleged duty of white colonizers to care for nonwhite indigenous subjects in their colonial possessions.
  • widemouth blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
  • wingback formation — single wingback formation.
  • without obligation — In advertisements, if a product or a service is available without obligation, you do not have to pay for that product or service until you have tried it and are satisfied with it.
  • woe betide someone — misfortune will befall someone
  • women's liberation — a movement to combat sexual discrimination and to gain full legal, economic, vocational, educational, and social rights and opportunities for women, equal to those of men.
  • wood-burning stove — cooker: fueled by wood
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