18-letter words containing c, e, d, i
- to close your mind — If you close your mind to something, you deliberately do not think about it or pay attention to it.
- to come unstitched — to go wrong or awry
- to pick and choose — If you pick and choose, you carefully choose only things that you really want and reject the others.
- ultrasonic welding — the use of high-energy vibration of ultrasonic frequency to produce a weld between two components which are held in close contact
- under-compensation — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
- under-depreciation — decrease in value due to wear and tear, decay, decline in price, etc.
- unearned increment — the increase in the value of property, especially land, due to natural causes, as growth of population, rather than to any labor or expenditure by the owner.
- unit-linked policy — a life-assurance policy, the investment benefits of which are directly in proportion to the number of units in a unit trust purchased on the policyholder's behalf
- upper middle class — wealthy, highly-educated people
- vectorcardiography — a method of determining the direction and magnitude of the electrical forces of the heart.
- vicar of wakefield — a novel (1766) by Goldsmith.
- video compact disc — (storage) (VCD) A storage format used for film distribution.
- video conferencing — the holding of videoconferences.
- video surveillance — a system of monitoring activity in an area or building using a television system in which signals are transmitted from a television camera to the receivers by cables or telephone links forming a closed circuit
- videotape recorder — a device for recording television programs on magnetic tape for delayed transmission or for storage.
- vitamin deficiency — a lack of a vitamin or vitamins needed for good health
- vote of confidence — expression of trust in sb's abilities
- watchdog committee — a committee responsible for monitoring standards of behaviour
- watson-crick model — a widely accepted model for the three-dimensional structure of DNA, featuring a double-helix configuration for the molecule's two hydrogen-bonded complementary polynucleotide strands.
- welland ship canal — a ship canal in S Canada, in Ontario, connecting Lakes Erie and Ontario: 8 locks. 25 miles (40 km) long.
- welwyn garden city — a town in SE England, in Hertfordshire: established (1920) as a planned industrial and residential community. Pop: 43 512 (2001)
- white-faced hornet — any large, stinging paper wasp of the family Vespidae, as Vespa crabro (giant hornet) introduced into the U.S. from Europe, or Vespula maculata (bald-faced hornet or white-faced hornet) of North America.
- widemouth blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
- wildlife sanctuary — an area where wild animals and plants are protected
- yeast nucleic acid — RNA.