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18-letter words containing a, s, f

  • kansas gay-feather — prairie button snakeroot.
  • king of the castle — most powerful figure
  • king-of-the-salmon — a ribbonfish, Trachypterus altivelis, of northern parts of the Pacific Ocean.
  • knights of pythias — a fraternal order founded in Washington, D.C., in 1864.
  • last in, first out — The expression last in, first out is used to say that the last person who started work in an organization should be the first person to leave it, if fewer people are needed.
  • last-in, first-out — an inventory plan based on the assumption that materials constituting manufacturing costs should be carried on the books at the market price of the last lot received. Abbreviation: LIFO. Compare first-in, first-out.
  • law of mass action — the statement that the rate of a chemical reaction is proportional to the concentrations of the reacting substances.
  • law of segregation — the principle, originated by Gregor Mendel, stating that during the production of gametes the two copies of each hereditary factor segregate so that offspring acquire one factor from each parent.
  • laying on of hands — Theology. a rite in which the cleric's hands are placed on the head of a person being confirmed, ordained, or the like.
  • learned profession — any of the three vocations of theology, law, and medicine, commonly held to require highly advanced learning. Compare profession (def 1).
  • lifecycle analysis — Lifecycle analysis is the consideration of all the energy and materials that are needed to make a product and to dispose of it.
  • lifesaving service — a private organization or government agency for general marine rescue operations.
  • like a house afire — a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
  • locally finite set — a collection of sets in a topological space in which each point of the space has a neighborhood that intersects a finite number of sets of the collection.
  • logical shift left — logical shift
  • looking-glass self — the self-image an individual forms by imagining what others think of his or her behavior and appearance.
  • loosestrife family — the plant family Lythraceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having usually opposite or whorled, simple leaves, clusters of flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the crape myrtle, loosestrifes of the genus Lythrum, and the henna shrub.
  • make a meal of sth — If you think someone is taking more time and energy to do something than is necessary, you can say that they are making a meal of it.
  • make short work of — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
  • malicious mischief — willful destruction of personal property motivated by ill will or resentment toward its owner or possessor.
  • man-to-man defense — a method of defense in team sports, especially in basketball and football, in which each member of the defensive team is designated to guard a particular member of the offensive team.
  • manufactured goods — products made by machine
  • manufacturing base — the manufacturing industries of an area or a country considered as a unit and a constituent part of the economy
  • margaret of valois — ("Queen Margot") 1533–1615, 1st wife of Henry IV of France: queen of Navarre; patron of science and literature (daughter of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici).
  • marsilius of padua — c1280–1343? Italian scholar and political theorist.
  • means of transport — vehicle or system of travel
  • medical profession — the body of people who work as doctors of medicine
  • mendel's first law — the principle, originated by Gregor Mendel, stating that during the production of gametes the two copies of each hereditary factor segregate so that offspring acquire one factor from each parent.
  • metamorphic facies — Geology. a group of metamorphic rock units characterized by particular mineralogic associations.
  • methyl transferase — any of a class of enzymes that catalyze the transfer of methyl groups from one molecule to another.
  • mezzo-soprano clef — a C clef locating middle C on the line next to the lowest line of the staff.
  • microsoft exchange — (messaging)   Microsoft's messaging and enterprise collaboration server. Exchange's primary role is as an electronic mail message store but it can also store calendars, task lists, contact details, and other data.
  • minister of health — a person appointed to head the government department of health
  • misplaced modifier — Grammar. a word, phrase, or clause that seems to refer to or modify an unintended word because of its placement in a sentence, as when young in When young, circuses appeal to all of us.
  • much of a muchness — very similar
  • negative cash flow — the situation when income is less than payments
  • new forest disease — an infectious eye disease causing acute eye pain in cattle
  • nike of samothrace — a Greek marble statue (c200 b.c.) of Nike found at Samothrace and now in the Louvre, Paris.
  • no-fault insurance — Also called no-fault insurance. a form of automobile insurance designed to enable the policyholder in case of an accident to collect a certain basic compensation promptly for economic loss from his or her own insurance company without determination of liability.
  • non-fundamentalist — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
  • nonpreferentialism — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
  • not in a fit state — If you say that someone is not in a fit state to do something, you mean that they are too upset or ill to do it.
  • notifiable disease — any one of a number of infectious diseases of humans and animals, that must be reported to the public health authorities
  • nursery facilities — places where young children are looked after
  • oblique-slip fault — a fault on which the movement is along both the strike and the dip of the fault
  • off-street parking — spaces for cars located on private property rather than on a public street
  • offensive material — any published or broadcast content (such as articles, photographs, films, or websites) that is likely to be upsetting, insulting, or objectionable to some or most people
  • office of readings — the first of the canonical hours; matins
  • official solicitor — an officer of the Supreme Court of Judicature with special responsibilities for protecting the interests of persons under disability
  • offset lithography — offset (def 6).
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