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18-letter words containing d, i, s, l

  • able-bodied seaman — an ordinary seaman, esp one in the merchant navy, who has been trained in certain skills
  • absolute magnitude — the apparent magnitude a given star would have if it were situated at a distance of 10 parsecs (32.6 light years) from the earth
  • address resolution — (networking)   Conversion of an Internet address into the corresponding physical address (Ethernet address). This is usually done using Address Resolution Protocol. The resolver is a library routine and a set of processes which converts hostnames into Internet addresses, though this process in not usually referred to as resolution. See DNS.
  • adenosylmethionine — (biochemistry) An adenosyl derivative of methionine that is a common co-substrate involved in transmethylation.
  • administrative law — law relating to the control of government power
  • agro-industrialize — to industrialize the agriculture of: to agro-industrialize a developing nation.
  • aids-related virus — a variant of the AIDS virus. Abbreviation: ARV.
  • albrecht waldstein — Albrecht von [German ahl-brekht fuh n] /German ˈɑl brɛxt fən/ (Show IPA), Wallenstein, Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von.
  • alexander i island — an island of Antarctica, west of Palmer Land, in the Bellingshausen Sea. Length: about 378 km (235 miles)
  • all meals included — All meals included is used to indicate that a price, especially the price of a hotel stay or vacation, includes the cost of meals in the hotel.
  • alpha-stannic acid — any of the series of acids usually occurring as amorphous powders and varying in composition from H 2 SnO 3 (alpha-stannic acid) to H 4 SnO 4 .
  • andrew file system — (operating system, storage)   (AFS) The distributed file system of the Andrew Project, adopted by the OSF as part of their Distributed Computing Environment.
  • angular dispersion — a measure of the angular separation of light rays of different wavelength or color traversing a prism or diffraction grating, equal to the rate of change of the angle of deviation with respect to the change in wavelength.
  • antiprostaglandins — Plural form of antiprostaglandin.
  • aphrodite of melos — a Greek statue of Venus in marble, c200 b.c., found in 1820 on Melos and now in the Louvre, Paris.
  • apostolic delegate — a representative of the pope sent to countries that do not have full or regular diplomatic relations with the Holy See
  • appellate division — the section of a court that hears appeals, sometimes existing as an intermediate court between a trial court and a court of last resort.
  • applied kinematics — kinematics (def 2).
  • applied psychology — psychology that is put to practical use
  • appraisal drilling — (in the oil industry) drilling carried out once oil or gas has been discovered in order to assess the extent of the field, the reserves, the possible rate of production, and the properties of the oil or gas
  • arsenic trisulfide — a yellow or red crystalline substance, As 2 S 3 , occurring in nature as the mineral orpiment, and used as a pigment (king's yellow) and in pyrotechnics.
  • asciibetical order — (jargon, programming)   /as'kee-be'-t*-kl or'dr/ Used to indicate that data is sorted in ASCII collated order rather than alphabetical order. The main difference is that, in ASCII, all the upper case letters come before any of the lower case letters so, e.g., "Z" comes before "a".
  • australian doubles — an unusual formation in doubles in which the server's partner is positioned on the same side of the court as the server.
  • back in the saddle — at work again
  • ballistic pendulum — a device consisting of a large mass hung from a horizontal bar by two rods, used to measure the velocity of an object, as a bullet, by retaining the object upon impact, its velocity being a function of the displacement of the mass.
  • ballistocardiogram — a tracing made by a ballistocardiograph
  • bartholin's glands — two small reddish-yellow glands, one on each side of the vaginal orifice, that secrete a mucous lubricating substance during sexual stimulation in females
  • bells and whistles — additional features or accessories which are nonessential but very attractive
  • bird's-foot violet — a North American violet (Viola pedata) having divided leaves and large blue or purple flowers
  • board of elections — a bipartisan board appointed usually by local authorities and charged with control of elections and voting procedure.
  • bomb disposal unit — a unit of the police or armed services specializing in bomb disposal
  • bottlenose dolphin — any dolphin of the genus Tursiops, esp T. truncatus, some of which have been kept in captivity and trained to perform tricks
  • brazilian rosewood — a Brazilian tree, Dalbergia nigra, of the legume family.
  • brewer's blackbird — a blackbird, Euphagus cyanocephalus, of the U.S., the male of which has greenish-black plumage with a purplish-black head.
  • bring-and-buy sale — A bring-and-buy sale is an informal sale to raise money for a charity or other organization. People who come to the sale bring things to be sold and buy things that other people have brought.
  • british somaliland — a former British protectorate (1884–1960) in E Africa, on the Gulf of Aden: united with Italian Somaliland in 1960 to form Somalia (or the Somali Republic); in 1991 the self-styled republic of Somaliland, covering the same area as the former British Somaliland, declared itself independent and continues to function largely as a separate entity, though without international recognition
  • building materials — materials such as bricks, cement, timber, etc
  • butler's sideboard — a sideboard, often with a fall front, having on its top a china cabinet with glazed doors.
  • cape breton island — an island off SE Canada, in NE Nova Scotia, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Canso: its easternmost point is Cape Breton. Pop: 132 298 (2006). Area: 10 280 sq km (3970 sq miles)
  • celestial guidance — the guidance of a spacecraft or missile by reference to the position of one or more celestial bodies
  • celestial latitude — the angular distance of a celestial body north or south from the ecliptic
  • centralized school — a public school formed from the pupils and teachers of a number of discontinued smaller schools, especially in a rural district.
  • chambered nautilus — nautilus (def 1).
  • child psychologist — a psychologist who specializes in treating children
  • children of israel — the Jews; Hebrews
  • children's crusade — a crusade to recover Jerusalem from the Saracens, undertaken in 1212 by thousands of French and German children who perished, were sold into slavery, or were turned back.
  • chinese fire drill — a state of chaotic, often clamorous disorder.
  • chuck-will's-widow — a large North American nightjar, Caprimulgus carolinensis, similar to the whippoorwill
  • circular dichroism — selective absorption of one of the two possible circular polarizations of light.
  • civil disobedience — Civil disobedience is the refusal by ordinary people in a country to obey laws or pay taxes, usually as a protest.

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