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18-letter words containing a, c, d

  • anticipated profit — the profit that one expects to make from a deal, transaction, or project
  • antidiscrimination — (legal) Opposing or disallowing discrimination.
  • antiscorbutic acid — vitamin C
  • apostolic delegate — a representative of the pope sent to countries that do not have full or regular diplomatic relations with the Holy See
  • applied kinematics — kinematics (def 2).
  • applied psychology — psychology that is put to practical use
  • arsenic trisulfide — a yellow or red crystalline substance, As 2 S 3 , occurring in nature as the mineral orpiment, and used as a pigment (king's yellow) and in pyrotechnics.
  • asciibetical order — (jargon, programming)   /as'kee-be'-t*-kl or'dr/ Used to indicate that data is sorted in ASCII collated order rather than alphabetical order. The main difference is that, in ASCII, all the upper case letters come before any of the lower case letters so, e.g., "Z" comes before "a".
  • associate director — a person who is joined with one or more other directors in an enterprise, business, etc, having equal or nearly equal status
  • associated company — a company which is largely controlled by its parent company because the latter owns anything up to 50% of the shares
  • asymptotic freedom — a property of the force between quarks, according to quantum chromodynamics, such that they behave almost like free particles when they are close together within a hadron.
  • at/from a distance — If you are at a distance from something, or if you see it or remember it from a distance, you are a long way away from it in space or time.
  • atmospheric window — wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum that can be transmitted through the earth's atmosphere. Atmospheric windows occur in the visible, infrared, and radio regions of the spectrum
  • attendance figures — the number of people present at events such as football matches or concerts
  • attendance officer — someone whose job is to keep records of students' attendance at school and to encourage students to attend
  • audio conferencing — the practice of conducting meetings by the use of audio telecommunications
  • auditory phonetics — the branch of phonetics concerned with the perception of speech sounds by humans
  • authorized capital — the total amount of value of the shares that a company is allowed to distribute
  • bach flower remedy — an alternative medicine consisting of a distillation from various flowers, designed to counteract negative states of mind and restore emotional balance
  • back end generator — (tool)   (BEG) A code generator developed by H. Emmelmann et al at GMD, University Karlsruhe, Germany. Its input language is Back End Generator Language (BEGL).
  • back in the saddle — at work again
  • back/down to earth — If you come down to earth or back to earth, you have to face the reality of everyday life after a period of great excitement.
  • background reading — reading of related works in order to get contextual information on a topic that you are intending to study or write about
  • balanced computing — (jargon)   Matching computer tools to job activities so that the computer system structure parallels the organisation structure and work functions. Both personal computers and employees operate in a decentralised environment with monitoring of achievement of management objectives from centralised corporate systems.
  • balanced scorecard — A balanced scorecard is a type of management report which includes both financial and non-financial measures.
  • ball-and-claw foot — a foot having the form of a bird's claw grasping a ball.
  • ballistic pendulum — a device consisting of a large mass hung from a horizontal bar by two rods, used to measure the velocity of an object, as a bullet, by retaining the object upon impact, its velocity being a function of the displacement of the mass.
  • ballistocardiogram — a tracing made by a ballistocardiograph
  • basket-handle arch — an arch having a symmetrical form drawn from an odd number of radii in excess of one, which increase in length from the springing toward the center.
  • be in good company — If you say that someone is in good company, you mean that they should not be ashamed of a mistake or opinion, because some important or respected people have made the same mistake or have the same opinion.
  • bend over backward — to try to an unusual degree (to please, pacify, etc.)
  • bevel-faced hammer — a riveting hammer having an oblique face.
  • biodiversification — the process by which the diversity of plants or animals develops or is increased within a particular region or group of organisms.
  • biomedical package — (language, library, statistics)   (BMDP) A statistical language and library of over forty statistical routines developed in 1961 at UCLA, Health Sciences Computing Facility under Dr. Wilford Dixon. BMDP was first implemented in Fortran for the IBM 7090. Tapes of the original source were distributed for free all over the world. BMDP is the second iteration of the original BIMED programs. It was developed at UCLA Health Sciences Computing facility, with NIH funding. The "P" in BMDP originally stood for "parameter" but was later changed to "package". BMDP used keyword parameters to defined what was to be done rather than the fixed card format used by original BIMED programs. BMDP supports many statistical funtions: simple data description, survival analysis, ANOVA, multivariate analyses, regression analysis, and time series analysis. BMDP Professional combines the full suite of BMDP Classic (Dynamic) release 7.0 with the BMDP New System 2.0 Windows front-end.
  • black nickel oxide — a gray-black, water-insoluble powder, Ni 2 O 3 , which, at 600°C, decomposes to nickel oxide: used chiefly in storage batteries as an oxidizing agent.
  • black-necked grebe — a small grebe, Podiceps nigricollis, found in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America
  • black-necked stork — a large Australian stork, Xenorhyncus asiaticus, having a white plumage, dark green back and tail, and red legs
  • blackback flounder — any of various popular food flatfishes, as Parophrys vetulus of the Pacific (English sole) and Pseudopleuronectes americanus of the Atlantic (winter flounder or blackback flounder)
  • board of directors — A company's board of directors is the group of people elected by its shareholders to manage the company.
  • board of education — a group or agency with responsibility for education
  • board of elections — a bipartisan board appointed usually by local authorities and charged with control of elections and voting procedure.
  • bottom dead center — Bottom dead center is the point at which the piston of an engine is nearest to the axis of the crankshaft. On a vertical engine, this is the lowest point that the piston reaches.
  • bottom dead centre — the position of the crank of a reciprocating engine when the piston is at its nearest point to the crankshaft
  • boundary condition — a stated restriction, usually in the form of an equation, that limits the possible solutions to a differential equation.
  • brand-name product — A brand-name product is one which is made by a well-known manufacturer and has the manufacturer's label on it.
  • bread and circuses — something offered as a means of distracting attention from a problem or grievance
  • brewer's blackbird — a blackbird, Euphagus cyanocephalus, of the U.S., the male of which has greenish-black plumage with a purplish-black head.
  • broadcasting house — any of a number of buildings in the UK from which the BBC broadcasts or has broadcast
  • bronchocandidiasis — See under candidiasis.
  • business education — education for general knowledge of business practices.
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