18-letter words containing a, r, i, s
- (go) off the rails — (to go) off the proper course
- (in) the worst way — very much; greatly
- a pain in the arse — In informal English, if you call someone or something a pain or a pain in the neck, you mean that they are very annoying or irritating. Expressions such as a pain in the arse and a pain in the backside in British English, or a pain in the ass and a pain in the butt in American English, are also used, but most people consider them offensive.
- 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.
- absorption costing — a method of cost accounting in which overheads are apportioned to cost centres, where they are absorbed using predetermined rates
- 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
- acorn risc machine — (processor) The original name of the Advanced RISC Machine.
- acoustic inertance — inertance.
- acoustic reactance — acoustic impedance caused by the inertia and elasticity of the transmitting 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.
- 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.
- aerial perspective — a means of indicating relative distance in terms of a gradation of clarity, tone, and colour, esp blue
- 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
- 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
- agro-industrialize — to industrialize the agriculture of: to agro-industrialize a developing nation.
- aids-related virus — a variant of the AIDS virus. Abbreviation: ARV.
- ailanthus silkworm — a green silkworm, Samia walkeri, introduced into the U.S. from China, that feeds on the leaves of the ailanthus.
- 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
- airman first class — the third lowest enlisted rank in the US Air Force, above airman and below senior airman
- airspeed indicator — a dial that indicates the airspeed at which an aircraft is travelling
- 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 i island — an island of Antarctica, west of Palmer Land, in the Bellingshausen Sea. Length: about 378 km (235 miles)
- alphaphotographics — A display made up of text characters combined with high-resolution photographic images (proposed as a future form of videotex).
- alternate straight — a hand consisting of five cards following one another by two in order of denomination, as a five, seven, nine, jack, and king, being of special value in certain games.
- alternating series — a series, usually infinite, in which successive terms have opposite signs, as 1 − ½ + ¼ − ⅛ +. ….
- alternative school — any public or private school having a special curriculum, especially an elementary or secondary school offering a more flexible program of study than a traditional school.
- 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
- anthropomorphising — Present participle of anthropomorphise.
- anti-commercialism — the principles, practices, and spirit of commerce.
- anti-masonic party — a former political party (1826–35) that opposed Freemasonry in civil affairs.
- anticholinesterase — any of a group of substances that inhibit the action of cholinesterase
- antidiscrimination — (legal) Opposing or disallowing discrimination.
- antiferromagnetism — the phenomenon exhibited by substances that resemble paramagnetic substances in the value of their relative permeability but that behave like ferromagnetic substances when their temperature is varied
- antiprostaglandins — Plural form of antiprostaglandin.
- antiscorbutic acid — vitamin C
- antisegregationist — opposed to the segregation of different races in any human activity
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