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18-letter words containing a, d, s

  • a good second best — an acceptable alternative
  • a month of sundays — a long unspecified period
  • 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.
  • able-bodied seaman — an ordinary seaman, esp one in the merchant navy, who has been trained in certain skills
  • absolute magnitude — the apparent magnitude a given star would have if it were situated at a distance of 10 parsecs (32.6 light years) from the earth
  • 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.
  • academie francaise — French Academy.
  • 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
  • acoustic impedance — the total reaction of a medium to the transmission of sound through it, expressed as the ratio of sound pressure to particle velocity at a given point in the medium.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • addressing machine — a printer that prints addresses directly on to letters, labels, and envelopes
  • adenocarcinomatous — Of or pertaining to adenocarcinomas.
  • adenosylmethionine — (biochemistry) An adenosyl derivative of methionine that is a common co-substrate involved in transmethylation.
  • 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
  • adverse possession — the occupation or possession of land by a person not legally entitled to it. If continued unopposed for a period specifed by law, such occupation extinguishes the title of the rightful owner
  • advertising agency — An advertising agency is a company whose business is to create advertisements for other companies or organizations.
  • advice and consent — a phrase in the Constitution (Article II, Section 2) allowing the Senate to restrain presidential powers of appointment and treaty-making.
  • aerospace medicine — aviation medicine
  • 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
  • aesthetic distance — a degree of detachment from or nonidentification with the characters or circumstances of a work of art, permitting the formation of judgments based on aesthetic rather than extra-aesthetic criteria.
  • 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 assault — an offence in which a person attacks someone physically, made more serious by its violent circumstances
  • agostino di duccio — 1415–81, Italian sculptor, noted for his carved marble panels in the interior of the Tempio Malatestiano at Rimini
  • agro-industrialize — to industrialize the agriculture of: to agro-industrialize a developing nation.
  • aids-related virus — a variant of the AIDS virus. Abbreviation: ARV.
  • 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 i island — an island of Antarctica, west of Palmer Land, in the Bellingshausen Sea. Length: about 378 km (235 miles)
  • all meals included — All meals included is used to indicate that a price, especially the price of a hotel stay or vacation, includes the cost of meals in the hotel.
  • almoner's cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
  • alpha-stannic acid — any of the series of acids usually occurring as amorphous powders and varying in composition from H 2 SnO 3 (alpha-stannic acid) to H 4 SnO 4 .
  • aminosuccinic acid — aspartic acid.
  • 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.
  • angular dispersion — a measure of the angular separation of light rays of different wavelength or color traversing a prism or diffraction grating, equal to the rate of change of the angle of deviation with respect to the change in wavelength.
  • anniversary dinner — a dinner held to celebrate an event that occurred in some previous year
  • 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.
  • apostolic delegate — a representative of the pope sent to countries that do not have full or regular diplomatic relations with the Holy See
  • apparent solar day — the period of time between two successive passages of the sun's center across the same meridian.
  • appellate division — the section of a court that hears appeals, sometimes existing as an intermediate court between a trial court and a court of last resort.
  • applied kinematics — kinematics (def 2).
  • applied psychology — psychology that is put to practical use

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