18-letter words containing a, d, o, r, t
- a foot in the door — an action, appointment, etc, that provides an initial step towards a desired goal, esp one that is not easily attainable
- a shot in the dark — If you describe something someone says or does as a shot in the dark or a stab in the dark, you mean they are guessing that what they say is correct or that what they do will be successful.
- abortion-on-demand — the right of a woman to have an abortion during the first six months of a pregnancy.
- absolute threshold — the minimum intensity of a stimulus at which it can just be perceived
- accident proneness — the unconscious tendency, thought to exist in some people, to involve themselves in a large number of accidents
- accommodation road — a road that serves residential properties or a piece of land but which is not considered a public highway
- according to hoyle — according to the rules and regulations; in the prescribed, fair, or correct way
- accretionary wedge — a body of deformed sediments, wedge-shaped in two dimensions or prism-shaped in three dimensions, that has been scraped off the surface of the oceanic lithosphere as it moves downwards beneath a continent or island arc. The sediments are added to the continental edge
- acid precipitation — meteorological precipitation that is relatively acidic.
- activated charcoal — a form of carbon having very fine pores: used chiefly for adsorbing gases or solutes, as in various filter systems for purification, deodorization, and decolorization.
- actual bodily harm — Actual bodily harm is a criminal offence in which someone gives another person a minor injury.
- adaptive radiation — evolution of a number of divergent species from a common ancestor, each species becoming adapted to occupy a different environment. This type of evolution occurred in the Tertiary manuals and the Mesozoic reptiles
- address resolution — (networking) Conversion of an Internet address into the corresponding physical address (Ethernet address). This is usually done using Address Resolution Protocol. The resolver is a library routine and a set of processes which converts hostnames into Internet addresses, though this process in not usually referred to as resolution. See DNS.
- adenocarcinomatous — Of or pertaining to adenocarcinomas.
- adjournment debate — (in the UK) a short debate, held immediately before the end of each day's business in the House of Commons, in which backbench MPs raise matters relating to their constituencies
- admirable crichton — a comedy (1902) by Sir James M. Barrie.
- adobe type manager — (text, tool, product) (ATM) Software that produces PostScript outline fonts on screen and paper. There are versions that run under Microsoft Windows and on the Macintosh. ATM can do hinting, multiple master and anti-aliasing.
- aerothermodynamics — the study of the exchange of heat between solids and gases, esp of the heating effect on aircraft flying through the air at very high speeds
- affective disorder — any mental disorder, such as depression or mania, that is characterized by abnormal disturbances of mood
- age discrimination — discrimination against older people, especially by employers
- aggravated robbery — a robbery made more serious by its violent circumstances
- agro-industrialize — to industrialize the agriculture of: to agro-industrialize a developing nation.
- ahead of the curve — People, products or ideas that are ahead of the curve are more advanced or modern than others of their kind.
- ahead of your time — If someone is ahead of their time or before their time, they have new ideas a long time before other people start to think in the same way.
- air national guard — a national guard organization similar to and coordinate with the U.S. Air Force.
- airspeed indicator — a dial that indicates the airspeed at which an aircraft is travelling
- alexander hamilton — Alexander, 1757–1804, American statesman and writer on government: the first Secretary of the Treasury 1789–97; mortally wounded by Aaron Burr in a duel.
- alternative comedy — a style of comedy originating in the UK in the 1980s that seeks to avoid racist or sexist stereotypes, and usually puts forward left-wing, anti-establishment views
- amdahl corporation — (company) A US computer manufacturer. Amdahl is a major supplier of large mainframes, UNIX and Open Systems software and servers, data storage subsystems, data communications products, applications development software, and a variety of educational and consulting services. Amdahl products are sold in more than 30 countries for use in both open systems and IBM plug-compatible mainframe computing environments. Quarterly sales $397M, profits $13M (Aug 1994). In 1997 Amdahl became a division of Fujitsu.
- anticipated profit — the profit that one expects to make from a deal, transaction, or project
- antidiscrimination — (legal) Opposing or disallowing discrimination.
- antiprostaglandins — Plural form of antiprostaglandin.
- antiscorbutic acid — vitamin C
- aphrodite of melos — a Greek statue of Venus in marble, c200 b.c., found in 1820 on Melos and now in the Louvre, Paris.
- apparent solar day — the period of time between two successive passages of the sun's center across the same meridian.
- armed intervention — an official response to a situation which involves the armed forces
- armed to the teeth — Someone who is armed to the teeth is armed with a lot of weapons or with very effective weapons.
- arrest of judgment — a stay of proceedings after a verdict, on the grounds of error or possible error
- 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
- 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 boardroom level — among directors
- 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 officer — someone whose job is to keep records of students' attendance at school and to encourage students to attend
- auditory phonetics — the branch of phonetics concerned with the perception of speech sounds by humans
- australian doubles — an unusual formation in doubles in which the server's partner is positioned on the same side of the court as the server.
- authorized capital — the total amount of value of the shares that a company is allowed to distribute
- authorized version — the revised English translation of the Bible published in England in 1611 with the authorization of King James I
- avoirdupois weight — a British and American system of weights based on a pound of 16 ounces
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