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18-letter words containing a, l, t, e, r, i

  • offset lithography — offset (def 6).
  • on delicate ground — in a situation requiring tact
  • on the danger list — critically ill in hospital
  • operation overlord — the codename for the Allied invasion (June 1944) of northern France
  • operationalisation — Alternative spelling of operationalization.
  • operationalization — The act or process of operationalizing.
  • optical brightener — an additive that dyes and brightens fabric or paper
  • optical carrier 12 — (networking)   (OC-12) A SONET rate of 12 * 51.84 = 622.08 megabits per second.
  • optical carrier 48 — (networking)   (OC-48) A SONET rate of 48 * 51.84 = 2488.32 megabits per second.
  • optical disc drive — optical disk drive
  • optical disk drive — (hardware)   (Or "optical disc drive", "optical storage") A generic term for any device that reads and/or writes optical media, i.e. compact discs, DVDs and/or Blu-ray discs or future media that uses light (from a small laser) to read data off a removable, rotating disk. At least one such drive is commonly installed in most personal computers to allow them to play and/or record audio and video media and load and store data such as program installers. The floppy disk has been replaced by optical media due to its vastly greater capacity, e.g. 50,000 megabytes for a dual-layer blu-ray disc compared with 1.5 megabytes for a floppy (over 30,000 times as much).
  • optical microscope — traditional magnifying instrument
  • oracle corporation — (company)   The world's leading supplier of information management software. The company, worth $2 billion, offers its products, along with related consulting, education and support services in more than 90 countries around the world. Oracle is best known for its database management systems vendor and relational DBMS products. Oracle develops and markets Oracle Media Server and the Oracle7 family of software products for database management; Co-operative Development Environment and Oracle Co-operative Applications Oracle software runs on personal digital assistants, set-top boxs, IBM PCs, workstations, minicomputers, mainframes and massively parallel computers. Oracle bought Sun Microsystems on 2009-04-20. See also Adaptable User Interface, Bookviewer, CASE*Method, Component Integration Laboratories, DDE Manager, Online Media, Oracle Card, Oracle*CASE, siod. Address: Redwood Shores, CA, USA.
  • oral contraceptive — birth-control pill.
  • order of australia — an order awarded to Australians for outstanding achievement or for service to Australia or to humanity at large; established in 1975
  • oriental alabaster — alabaster (def 2).
  • oriental almandine — a variety of corundum resembling almandine in colour and used as a gemstone
  • oriental cat's-eye — a chatoyant variety of chrysoberyl, used as a gem.
  • oriental cockroach — a dark-brown cockroach, Blatta orientalis, thought to have originated in Asia but now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution.
  • oriental scops owl — any of a group of small owls having ear tufts and a whistling call, especially Otus scops (Old World scops owl) and O. sunia (Oriental scops owl)
  • oriental shorthair — any of a breed of domestic cat, similar to the Siamese but with greenish eyes and often a coat of a solid color
  • over-extrapolation — to infer (an unknown) from something that is known; conjecture.
  • overcapitalization — The state of being overcapitalized.
  • overdraft facility — a facility (of a bank or building-society cheque account) that allows a withdrawal of money in excess of the account's credit balance
  • overgeneralization — the act or process of overgeneralizing.
  • overnight telegram — a type of domestic telegram sent at a reduced rate with a minimum charge for 10 words or less and accepted until midnight for delivery the following day.
  • overspecialization — excessive specialization, as in a field of study.
  • pair of spectacles — a score of 0 in each innings of a match
  • parallel computing — parallel processing
  • parallel evolution — the independent development of closely corresponding adaptive features in two or more groups of organisms that occupy different but equivalent habitats, as marsupial mammals in Australia and placental mammals on other continents.
  • parallel importing — the importing of certain goods, esp pharmaceutical drugs, by dealers who undersell local manufacturers
  • parallel reduction — A form of applicative order reduction in which all redexes in an expression are reduced simultaneously. Variants include parallel outermost reduction and lenient reduction. See normal order reduction.
  • parliamentarianism — advocacy of a parliamentary system of government.
  • partial derivative — the derivative of a function with respect to one of its variables with all other variables held constant.
  • partial evaluation — (compiler, algorithm)   (Or "specialisation") An optimisation technique where the compiler evaluates some subexpressions at compile-time. For example, Partial evaluation might change the termination properties of the program if, for example, the expression (x * 0) was reduced to 0 it would terminate even if x (and thus x * 0) did not. It may be necessary to reorder an expression to partially evaluate it, e.g. f x y = (x + y) + 1 g z = f 3 z If we rewrite f: f x y = (x + 1) + y then the expression x+1 becomes a constant for the function g and we can say g z = f 3 z = (3 + 1) + z = 4 + z Partial evaluation of built-in functions applied to constant arguments is known as constant folding. See also full laziness.
  • partial-vegetarian — a person who eats mostly plant foods, dairy products, and eggs, and occasionally chicken, fish, and red meat.
  • particular average — a loss at sea, as through accident or negligence, that is borne solely by the owner of the lost property. Abbreviation: P.A.
  • particulate filter — A particulate filter is a filter to remove particles that are present the air, for example in the exhaust of a diesel engine.
  • particulate matter — Particulate matter is solid or liquid particles in the air, which are measured in PM-10 units and are particles with a diameter of ten micrometers or less.
  • pectoral sandpiper — an American sandpiper, Calidris melanotos, the male of which, when courting, inflates its chest conspicuously.
  • pedal steel guitar — an oblong, floor-mounted electrified guitar, usually having ten strings, fretted with a steel bar and producing a wailing sound that is modulated by use of a foot pedal.
  • pellitory of spain — a small Mediterranean plant, Anacyclus pyrethrum, the root of which contains an oil formerly used to relieve toothache: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • people trafficking — the practice of bringing immigrants into a country illegally
  • percentile ranking — the percentage of scores that a particular score is greater than
  • perceptual mapping — the use of a graph or map in the development of a new product, in which the proximity of consumers' images of the new product to those of an ideal product provide an indication of the new product's likely success
  • perfect participle — past participle.
  • perlocutionary act — the action of affecting someone by uttering certain words
  • personal assistant — aide
  • personal exemption — Your personal exemption is the amount of money that is deducted from your gross income before you have to start paying income tax.
  • phanerocrystalline — (of a rock) having the principal constituents in the form of crystals visible to the naked eye.
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