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18-letter words containing d, e, p, i, n, t

  • report an accident — If you report an accident, you inform an insurer or the police or other authorities that an accident has occurred.
  • reproduction proof — repro proof.
  • resistance plasmid — any of a group of bacterial plasmids carrying genetic information that provide resistance to antibiotic drugs: some resistance plasmids are able to transfer themselves, and hence resistance, during conjugation
  • retail price index — The retail price index is a list of the prices of typical goods which shows how much the cost of living changes from one month to the next.
  • ribbon development — housing or commercial buildings built along a stretch of road.
  • saint bernard pass — either of two passes over the Alps: the Great St Bernard Pass 2472 m (8110 ft) high, east of Mont Blanc between Italy and Switzerland, or the Little St Bernard Pass 2157 m (7077 ft) high, south of Mont Blanc between Italy and France
  • scissors-and-paste — designating or of a piece of writing that has been assembled from a variety of sources rather than by original research, often in a hasty or uninspired way
  • self-deprecatingly — in a self-deprecating manner
  • self-disparagement — the act of disparaging.
  • service department — a repair shop
  • shipping documents — documents relating to the sending of a shipment of goods, for example containing details of contents, weight, value etc.
  • solitary sandpiper — a North American sandpiper, Tringa solitaria, of inland wetlands, having a brownish-gray, white-spotted back and whitish underparts.
  • sonic depth finder — a sonar instrument that uses echolocation to measure depths under water.
  • the encyclopedists — the writers of the French Encyclopedia (1751-72) edited by Diderot and d'Alembert, which contained the advanced ideas of the period
  • threatened species — a species likely, in the near future, to become an endangered species within all or much of its range.
  • to be tickled pink — If you are tickled pink, you are extremely pleased about something.
  • to pick and choose — If you pick and choose, you carefully choose only things that you really want and reject the others.
  • to speak your mind — If you speak your mind, you say firmly and honestly what you think about a situation, even if this may offend or upset people.
  • traditional weapon — a weapon having ceremonial tribal significance, such as an assegai or knobkerrie
  • transporter bridge — a bridge for carrying passengers and vehicles by means of a platform suspended from a trolley.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • vanadium pentoxide — a yellow to red crystalline compound, V 2 O 5 , slightly soluble in water, used as a catalyst for organic reactions, in glass to absorb ultraviolet radiation, and as a photographic developer.
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