18-letter words containing a, l, t, e
- (all) in good time — If you tell someone that something will happen in good time or all in good time, you are telling them to be patient because it will happen eventually.
- (go) off the rails — (to go) off the proper course
- a farewell to arms — a novel (1929) by Ernest Hemingway.
- a flash in the pan — If you describe an achievement or success as a flash in the pan, you mean that it is unlikely to be repeated and is not an indication of future achievements or success.
- a leap in the dark — an action performed without knowledge of the consequences
- a place in the sun — If you say that someone has found their place in the sun, you mean that they are in a job or a situation where they will be happy and have everything that they want.
- a plague on sb/sth — You say a plague on a particular person or thing when you are very irritated by them and do not want to bother with them any more.
- a slap in the face — If you describe something that someone does as a slap in the face, you mean that it shocks or upsets you because it shows that they do not support you or respect you.
- a slap on the back — congratulation
- absolute liability — full legal responsibility for damages or for an injury, without the need for proof and regardless of the degree of negligence or fault
- 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
- absolute viscosity — a full name for viscosity, used to distinguish it from kinematic viscosity and specific viscosity
- 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.
- accommodation line — insurance that, by itself, would not be acceptable to an insurer but is written in connection with other policies as an accommodation to an agent or broker.
- according to hoyle — according to the rules and regulations; in the prescribed, fair, or correct way
- account receivable — a current asset account showing amounts payable to a firm by customers who have made purchases of goods and services on credit
- 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.
- acupuncture needle — a very fine needle with a rounded tip, used in acupuncture
- acute inflammation — body's response to infection
- 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.
- 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
- administrative law — law relating to the control of government power
- admirable crichton — a comedy (1902) by Sir James M. Barrie.
- aerial perspective — a means of indicating relative distance in terms of a gradation of clarity, tone, and colour, esp blue
- aerial photography — Aerial photography is the process of taking photographs of an area from above, for example from an airplane or mast.
- aeronautical chart — a topographic map of an area of the earth's surface, designed as an aid to aircraft navigation
- african tulip tree — a tropical African evergreen tree, Spathodea campaulata, with pinnate leaves, split pods, winged seeds, and large red flowers.
- aggravated assault — an offence in which a person attacks someone physically, made more serious by its violent circumstances
- agri-environmental — of or relating to the impact of agricultural practices on the environment
- agricultural agent — county agent.
- agro-industrialize — to industrialize the agriculture of: to agro-industrialize a developing nation.
- aids-related virus — a variant of the AIDS virus. Abbreviation: ARV.
- air-to-air missile — a missile fired from an aircraft that targets other aircraft in flight
- air-to-sea missile — a missile fired from an aircraft that has a target on the sea
- alaska-hawaii time — the civil time officially adopted for a country or region, usually the civil time of some specific meridian lying within the region. The standard time zones in the U.S. (Atlantic time, Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time, Pacific time, Yukon time, Alaska-Hawaii time, and Bering time) use the civil times of the 60th, 75th, 90th, 105th, 120th, 135th, 150th, and 165th meridians respectively, the difference of time between one zone and the next being exactly one hour.
- albert bruce sabin — Albert Bruce, 1906–93, U.S. physician, born in Poland: developed Sabin vaccine.
- 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.
- algebraic equation — an equation in the form of a polynomial having a finite number of terms and equated to zero, as 2 x 3 + 4 x 2 − x + 7 = 0.
- algebraic function — any function which can be constructed in a finite number of steps from the elementary operations and the inverses of any function already constructed
- algebraic geometry — the study of sets that are defined by algebraic equations.
- algebraic notation — the standard method of denoting the squares on the chessboard, by allotting a letter, a, b, c, up to h, to each of the files running up the board from White's side, starting from the left, and a number to each of the ranks across the board, starting with White's first rank
- algebraic topology — the branch of mathematics that deals with the application of algebraic methods to topology, especially the study of homology and homotopy.
- alkali metaprotein — a metaprotein derived by means of a hydrolytic alkali.
- all along the line — at every stage in a series
- all over the place — If something is happening all over the place, it is happening in many different places.
- all the better for — improved as a result of
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