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18-letter words containing u, b, e, r

  • payment by results — a system of wage payment whereby all or part of the wage varies systematically according to the level of work performance of an employee
  • personal bodyguard — a person employed to protect a particular person
  • petite bourgeoisie — the portion of the bourgeoisie having the least wealth and lowest social status; the lower middle class.
  • piperonyl butoxide — a light-brown liquid, C 1 9 H 3 0 O 5 , used chiefly as a synergist in certain insecticides.
  • play silly buggers — to fool around and waste time
  • 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
  • portable equipment — Portable equipment is electrical equipment that can easily be moved from one place to another while in operation or while connected to the supply.
  • prometheus unbound — a drama in verse (1820) by Shelley.
  • pseudotuberculosis — an acute, sometimes fatal disease of rodents, birds, and other animals, including humans, caused by the bacterium Yersinia (Pasteurella) pseudotuberculosis, and characterized by the formation of nodules resembling those that result from tuberculosis.
  • public expenditure — spending by central government, local authorities, and public corporations
  • pulmonary embolism — the blockage of a pulmonary artery, often by a blood clot, that stops the flow of blood to the lungs and which can result in death if untreated
  • 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
  • red-bellied turtle — any of several freshwater turtles of the genus Pseudemys, of the eastern and southern U.S., having red markings on the lower shell.
  • remembrance sunday — the second Sunday in November, which is the Sunday closest to November 11, the anniversary of the armistice of 1918 that ended World War I, on which the dead of both World Wars are commemorated
  • return-flue boiler — a fire-tube boiler having flues that collect the combustion gases at the end of the boiler opposite the fire door and pass them through the boiler to an uptake above the fire door.
  • reversionary bonus — a bonus added to the sum payable on death or at the maturity of a with-profits assurance policy
  • rheims-douay bible — Douay Bible.
  • rub shoulders with — to mix with socially or associate with
  • rubbish collection — the collection of domestic refuse for disposal
  • second-degree burn — a burned place or area: a burn where fire had ripped through the forest.
  • separate but equal — pertaining to a racial policy, formerly practiced in some parts of the United States, by which black people could be segregated if granted equal opportunities and facilities, as for education, transportation, or jobs.
  • shrubby cinquefoil — a small shrub, Potentilla fruticosa, of the rose family, native to the Northern temperate region, having pinnate leaves and numerous, showy, bright-yellow flowers.
  • simone de beauvoir — Simone [see-mawn] /siˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), (Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand) 1908–86, French playwright, novelist, and essayist.
  • so much the better — You can say 'so much the better' or 'all the better' to indicate that it is desirable that a particular thing is used, done, or available.
  • 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.
  • sodium tetraborate — borax1 .
  • squirting cucumber — a Mediterranean plant, Ecballium elaterium, of the gourd family, whose ripened fruit forcibly ejects the seeds and juice.
  • strangeness number — a quantum number, designating the strangeness of an elementary particle, equivalent to the hypercharge minus the baryon number
  • stroustrup, bjarne — Bjarne Stroustrup
  • subatomic particle — physics:
  • submarine sandwich — a sandwich made with a long cylindrical bread roll
  • 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.
  • subsistence farmer — a farmer who consumes most of the produce he grows, leaving little or nothing to be marketed
  • substitute teacher — educator: replaces sb temporarily
  • supraorbital ridge — browridge.
  • talk a blue streak — speak rapidly and incessantly
  • the baptist church — any of various Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of believers
  • the general public — the people in a society; people in general
  • the weather bureau — the national agency responsible for collecting data about the weather and issuing forecasts
  • the-master-builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • thermonuclear bomb — hydrogen bomb.
  • to bare one's soul — If you bare your soul, you tell someone your most secret thoughts and feelings.
  • to be above ground — to be alive
  • to be caught short — If you are caught short or are taken short, you feel a sudden strong need to urinate, especially when you cannot easily find a toilet.
  • to put years on sb — if you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has put years on someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much older
  • transfinite number — an infinite cardinal or ordinal number.
  • 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.
  • turn one's back on — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
  • under one's breath — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
  • under the jackboot — If a country or group of people is under the jackboot, they are suffering because the government is cruel and undemocratic.
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