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

  • justice department — the United States federal department for enforcing federal laws
  • keep at a distance — to be reserved or cool toward; treat aloofly
  • keep one's hand in — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • landscape gardener — sb who designs gardens
  • landscape painting — art: depicting natural scenery
  • learned profession — any of the three vocations of theology, law, and medicine, commonly held to require highly advanced learning. Compare profession (def 1).
  • light displacement — the weight of a ship with all its permanent equipment, excluding the weight of cargo, persons, ballast, dunnage, and fuel, but usually including the weight of permanent ballast and water used to operate steam machinery.
  • magnesium peroxide — a white, tasteless, water-insoluble powder, MgO 2 , used as an antiseptic and as an oxidizing and bleaching agent.
  • make up one's mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
  • medical profession — the body of people who work as doctors of medicine
  • methylprednisolone — A synthetic glucocorticoid drug, with chemical formula C22H30O5.
  • mexican gold poppy — an annual wildflower, Eschscholzia mexicana, having orange-gold, cup-shaped flowers, found in dry, mountainous regions of western North America.
  • minority president — (in the US) a president who has been elected by the largest number of votes cast but not by a majority of the electorate
  • money for old rope — If you describe a payment as money for old rope, you are emphasizing that it is earned very easily, for very little effort.
  • monophosphorylated — (biochemistry) phosphorylated with a single unit of phosphoric acid.
  • mordovian republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga basin. Capital: Saransk. Pop: 888 700 (2002). Area: 26 200 sq km (10 110 sq miles)
  • morphine addiction — the fact or condition of being addicted to morphine
  • multiply-connected — connected but not simply-connected.
  • needle-nose pliers — long thin pliers
  • neurodevelopmental — Of or pertaining to the development of neurological pathways in the brain.
  • neuropsychodynamic — Of or pertaining to neuropsychodynamics.
  • new zealand pigeon — a large fruit-eating native pigeon, Hemiphagia novaeseelandiae, of forest areas
  • non-correspondence — communication by exchange of letters.
  • nord-pas-de-calais — a region of N France, on the Straits of Dover (the Pas de Calais): coal-mining, textile, and metallurgical industries
  • normally aspirated — A normally aspirated or naturally aspirated engine breathes air at atmospheric pressure.
  • oedipus at colonus — a tragedy by Sophocles, written toward the end of his life and produced posthumously in 401? b.c.
  • open pandora's box — If someone or something opens Pandora's box or opens a Pandora's box, they do something that causes a lot of problems to appear that did not exist or were not known about before.
  • operation overlord — the codename for the Allied invasion (June 1944) of northern France
  • out of one's depth — a dimension taken through an object or body of material, usually downward from an upper surface, horizontally inward from an outer surface, or from top to bottom of something regarded as one of several layers.
  • packet switch node — (PSN) A dedicated computer whose purpose is to accept, route and forward packets in a packet-switched network.
  • paediatric nursing — the branch of nursing concerned with the care of children
  • paint the town red — a substance composed of solid coloring matter suspended in a liquid medium and applied as a protective or decorative coating to various surfaces, or to canvas or other materials in producing a work of art.
  • palm beach gardens — a city in SE Florida, near North Palm Beach.
  • paper handkerchief — a handkerchief made from tissue paper
  • parallel reduction — A form of applicative order reduction in which all redexes in an expression are reduced simultaneously. Variants include parallel outermost reduction and lenient reduction. See normal order reduction.
  • paraurethral gland — any of a group of vestigial glands located in the posterior wall of the urethra in women.
  • pass the hat round — to collect money, as for a cause
  • passing-out parade — a ceremonial parade of cadets who have completed their training
  • payment in advance — If a business asks for payment in advance, the payment must be received in full before the goods or services are delivered.
  • pci mezzanine card — (hardware)   (PMC) A family of low profile mezzanine cards for VMEbus, Futurebus+, desktop computers and other computer systems with logical and electrical layers based on the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) specification. PMC is defined in IEEE P1386.1 and follows the Common Mezzanine Card (CMC) mechanical specification. PCI2.0 defines a 4.2 inch by 12.3 inch board that plugs perpendicularly into a mother board.
  • pectoral sandpiper — an American sandpiper, Calidris melanotos, the male of which, when courting, inflates its chest conspicuously.
  • pedestrian traffic — the people coming and going on foot in a street, town, etc
  • pennsylvania dutch — the descendants of 17th- and 18th-century settlers in Pennsylvania from southwest Germany and Switzerland.
  • perceptual defence — the process by which it is thought that certain stimuli are either not perceived or are distorted due to their offensive, unpleasant, or threatening nature
  • percussion welding — a form of resistance welding in which the required pressure is provided by a hammerlike blow.
  • periodic inventory — Periodic inventory is a method of valuing inventory, usually at the end of accounting periods, by physically counting all merchandise held in stock at that time.
  • permanent hardness — hardness of water that cannot be removed by boiling as it results mainly from the presence of calcium and magnesium chlorides and sulphates
  • permanent resident — an immigrant who has been given official residential status, often prior to being granted citizenship
  • perpetual calendar — a calendar devised to be used for many years, as in determining the day of the week on which a given date falls.
  • personal bodyguard — a person employed to protect a particular person
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