18-letter words containing a, d, r, t
- a bird in the hand — A bird in the hand is something that you already have and do not want to risk losing by trying to get something else.
- 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 leap in the dark — an action performed without knowledge of the consequences
- 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
- abstract data type — (programming) (ADT) A kind of data abstraction where a type's internal form is hidden behind a set of access functions. Values of the type are created and inspected only by calls to the access functions. This allows the implementation of the type to be changed without requiring any changes outside the module in which it is defined. A classic example of an ADT is a stack data type for which functions might be provided to create an empty stack, to push values onto a stack and to pop values from a stack.
- acadian flycatcher — a small, greenish tyrant flycatcher (Empidonax virescens) found in deciduous forests of E North America
- accelerated reader — a teaching device into which a page of reading material is inserted and advanced one line at a time, gradually increasing the speed to accelerate and improve one's rate of reading comprehension.
- accident insurance — insurance providing compensation for accidental injury or death
- 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.
- acquired character — a modification of structure or function caused by environmental factors: now generally regarded as not inheritable
- 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.
- acupuncture needle — a very fine needle with a rounded tip, used in acupuncture
- adaptive answering — (communications) A feature which allows a faxmodem to answer the telephone and decide whether the incoming call is a fax or data call. Most Class 1 faxmodems do this. The U.S. Robotics Class 1 implementation however seems not to do it, it must be set to answer as either one or the other.
- 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
- adjustable spanner — a tool with adjustable jaws used for turning bolts, etc
- administered price — a price determined by a seller's pricing policy and not by market forces, supply and demand, etc
- administrative law — law relating to the control of government power
- 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.
- advertising agency — An advertising agency is a company whose business is to create advertisements for other companies or organizations.
- 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
- after-dinner drink — a drink such as port and brandy taken after dinner
- age discrimination — discrimination against older people, especially by employers
- aggravated assault — an offence in which a person attacks someone physically, made more serious by its violent circumstances
- 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.
- aids-related virus — a variant of the AIDS virus. Abbreviation: ARV.
- 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
- albrecht waldstein — Albrecht von [German ahl-brekht fuh n] /German ˈɑl brɛxt fən/ (Show IPA), Wallenstein, Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von.
- 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
- alumina trihydrate — a crystalline, water-insoluble powder, Al(OH) 3 or Al 2 O 3 ⋅3H 2 O, obtained chiefly from bauxite: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, and printing inks, in dyeing, and in medicine as an antacid and in the treatment of ulcers.
- 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.
- andrew file system — (operating system, storage) (AFS) The distributed file system of the Andrew Project, adopted by the OSF as part of their Distributed Computing Environment.
- anticipated profit — the profit that one expects to make from a deal, transaction, or project
- antidiscrimination — (legal) Opposing or disallowing discrimination.
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