18-letter words containing d, e, a, t, r
- under-depreciation — decrease in value due to wear and tear, decay, decline in price, etc.
- under-registration — the act of registering.
- 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.
- united arab states — a former (1958–61) federation of the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) and Yemen.
- united states army — the permanent or regular military land force of the United States, under the authority of the Department of Defense since 1947. Abbreviation: USA.
- ur of the chaldees — the city where Abraham was born, sometimes identified with the Sumerian city of Ur. Gen. 11:28, 31; 15:7; Neh. 9:7.
- urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
- vectorcardiography — a method of determining the direction and magnitude of the electrical forces of the heart.
- venezia tridentina — a former department in N Italy, now forming the greater part of the region of Trentino-Alto Adige.
- videotape recorder — a device for recording television programs on magnetic tape for delayed transmission or for storage.
- wage determination — the process of setting wage rates or establishing wage structures in particular situations
- wandering minstrel — travelling performer
- wardrobe assistant — a person who assists the wardrobe mistress in a theatre
- water of hydration — the portion of a hydrate that is represented as, or can be expelled as, water: now usually regarded as being in true molecular combination with the other atoms of the compound, and not existing in the compound as water.
- 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.
- welwyn garden city — a town in SE England, in Hertfordshire: established (1920) as a planned industrial and residential community. Pop: 43 512 (2001)
- west-northwestward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the west-northwest.
- west-southwestward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the west-southwest.
- western meadowlark — any of several American songbirds of the genus Sturnella, of the family Icteridae, especially S. magna (eastern meadowlark) and S. neglecta (western meadowlark) having a brownish and black back and wings and a yellow breast, noted for their clear, tuneful song.
- white man's burden — the alleged duty of white colonizers to care for nonwhite indigenous subjects in their colonial possessions.
- 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.
- wildlife sanctuary — an area where wild animals and plants are protected
- winged everlasting — a bushy composite plant, Ammobium alatum, of Australia, having winged branches, javelin-shaped leaves, and white flowers.
- woman of the world — a woman experienced and sophisticated in the ways and manners of the world, especially the world of society.
- world trade center — New York: business district