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18-letter words containing d, a, u, e, r, s

  • paediatric nursing — the branch of nursing concerned with the care of children
  • pass the hat round — to collect money, as for a cause
  • passing-out parade — a ceremonial parade of cadets who have completed their training
  • 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.
  • per ardua ad astra — through difficulties to the stars: the motto of the RAF
  • personal bodyguard — a person employed to protect a particular person
  • potassium chloride — a white or colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, KCl, used chiefly in the manufacture of fertilizers and mineral water, and as a source of other potassium compounds.
  • potassium fluoride — a white, crystalline, hygroscopic, toxic powder, KF, used chiefly as an insecticide, a disinfectant, and in etching glass.
  • predation pressure — the effect of predation upon a population, resulting in the decrease in size of that population.
  • predicate calculus — predicate logic
  • presidential suite — a suite of rooms, as in a hotel, suitable for a president or other head of state.
  • programme of study — the prescribed syllabus that pupils must be taught at each key stage in the National Curriculum
  • pseudo-anarchistic — a person who advocates or believes in anarchy or anarchism.
  • put heads together — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • pyramus and thisbe — (in Greek legend) two lovers of Babylon: Pyramus, wrongly supposing Thisbe to be dead, killed himself and she, encountering him in his death throes, did the same
  • quinacrine mustard — a nitrogen mustard derived from mepacrine and used as a stain for chromosomes
  • radiation exposure — exposure to radiant energy or to the particles emitted in the transfer of radiant energy, esp the particles and gamma rays emitted in nuclear decay; exposure to radioactive substances
  • radiation pressure — the pressure exerted on a surface by electromagnetic radiation or by sound waves.
  • rear its ugly head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • reduction strategy — (theory)   An algorithm for deciding which redex(es) to reduce next. Different strategies have different termination properties in the presence of recursive functions or values. See string reduction, normal order reduction, applicative order reduction, parallel reduction
  • remembrance sunday — the second Sunday in November, which is the Sunday closest to November 11, the anniversary of the armistice of 1918 that ended World War I, on which the dead of both World Wars are commemorated
  • repayment schedule — a document detailing the specific terms of a borrower's loan, such as monthly payment, interest rate, due dates etc
  • residual magnetism — remanence.
  • rheims-douay bible — Douay Bible.
  • russian federation — a republic extending from E Europe to N and W Asia. 6,593,000 sq. mi. (17,076,000 sq. km). Capital: Moscow.
  • saturated solution — A saturated solution is a solution in which there is so much solute that if there was any more, it would not dissolve.
  • second triumvirate — the coalition and joint rule of the Roman Empire by Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian, begun in 43 bc
  • secondary consumer — (in the food chain) a carnivore that feeds only upon herbivores.
  • secondary industry — manufacturing, services, etc.
  • self-understanding — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
  • simone de beauvoir — Simone [see-mawn] /siˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), (Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand) 1908–86, French playwright, novelist, and essayist.
  • sodium bicarbonate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, in powder or granules, NaHCO 3 , usually prepared by the reaction of soda ash with carbon dioxide or obtained from the intermediate product of the Solvay process by purification: used chiefly in the manufacture of sodium salts, baking powder, and beverages, as a laboratory reagent, as a fire extinguisher, and in medicine as an antacid.
  • sodium tetraborate — borax1 .
  • sound and the fury — a novel (1929) by William Faulkner.
  • sound spectrograph — an electronic device for recording a sound spectogram.
  • southern rhodesian — a former name (until 1964) of Zimbabwe (def 1).
  • stand one's ground — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
  • standard schnauzer — schnauzer.
  • strike an attitude — to assume a posture or pose, often an affected or theatrical one
  • study hall teacher — a teacher who supervises or helps students during a period of time or lesson used for studying
  • sturt's desert pea — the desert pea
  • submarine sandwich — a sandwich made with a long cylindrical bread roll
  • subordinate clause — a clause that modifies the principal clause or some part of it or that serves a noun function in the principal clause, as when she arrived in the sentence I was there when she arrived or that she has arrived in the sentence I doubt that she has arrived.
  • sulfuric anhydride — sulfur trioxide.
  • summary proceeding — a mode of trial authorized by statute to be held before a judge without the usual full hearing.
  • sun-dried tomatoes — tomatoes that have been dried or preserved by exposure to the sun
  • superciliary ridge — browridge.
  • supraorbital ridge — browridge.
  • the-master-builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • thioarsenious acid — any of a group of hypothetical acids, H3AsS3, HAsS2, and H4As2S5, known only in the forms of their salts
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