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18-letter words containing d, o, i, n

  • rescind a contract — If an insurer rescinds an insurance contract, it terminates it because facts have been concealed or misrepresented by the proposer.
  • residential school — (in Canada) a boarding school maintained by the Canadian government for Indian and Inuit children from sparsely populated settlements
  • restoration comedy — English comedy of the period of the Restoration, stressing manners and social satire.
  • restraint of trade — action tending to interrupt the free flow of goods and services, as by price fixing and other practices that have the effect of reducing competition.
  • retrograde amnesia — a memory disorder characterized by an inability to remember events or experiences that occurred before a significant point in time.
  • rhode island white — one of a dual-purpose American breed of chickens having white feathers and a rose comb.
  • rhyming dictionary — a specialist dictionary organized by the final sounds of words, used to write poetry
  • ribbon development — housing or commercial buildings built along a stretch of road.
  • rotational molding — a method for molding hollow plastic objects by placing finely divided particles in a hollow mold that is rotated about two axes, exposing it to heat and then to cold.
  • rufous hummingbird — a reddish-brown hummingbird, Selasphorus rufus, of western North America.
  • 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.
  • saint george's day — April 23, celebrated in parts of the British Commonwealth in honor of the patron saint of Britain and especially in New Zealand as a bank holiday.
  • saint john's bread — carob (def 2).
  • 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.
  • say/kiss goodnight — If you say goodnight to someone or kiss them goodnight, you say something such as 'Goodnight' to them or kiss them before one of you goes home or goes to sleep.
  • science dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering terms in the life, earth, and physical sciences, such as the online Science Dictionary on Dictionary.com. A science dictionary includes many technical terms with precise, specialized meanings—terms not normally found in general dictionaries—making it an invaluable resource for students and professionals in scientific fields.
  • 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
  • scottish deerhound — one of a Scottish breed of large, tall hunting dogs having a medium-length, wiry, gray or reddish-fawn coat, originally developed for hunting and bringing down deer, and known as the royal dog of Scotland.
  • seafloor spreading — a process in which new ocean floor is created as molten material from the earth's mantle rises in margins between plates or ridges and spreads out.
  • second triumvirate — the coalition and joint rule of the Roman Empire by Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian, begun in 43 bc
  • secondary deviance — deviant behavior that results from being publicly labeled as deviant and treated as an outsider.
  • secondary diagonal — a diagonal line or plane.
  • secondary emission — the emission of electrons (secondary electrons) from a material that is bombarded with electrons or ions.
  • secondary industry — manufacturing, services, etc.
  • secondary offering — the sale of a large block of outstanding stock off the floor of an exchange, usually by a major stockholder.
  • secondary syphilis — the second stage of syphilis, characterized by eruptions of the skin and mucous membrane.
  • sedimentation tank — a tank into which sewage is passed to allow suspended solid matter to separate out
  • self-comprehending — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
  • self-contradiction — an act or instance of contradicting oneself or itself.
  • self-contradictory — an act or instance of contradicting oneself or itself.
  • self-determination — determination by oneself or itself, without outside influence.
  • sense of direction — Your sense of direction is your ability to know roughly where you are, or which way to go, even when you are in an unfamiliar place.
  • sex discrimination — the practice of treating male and female people unequally
  • shift one's ground — to change one's argument or defense
  • shipping documents — documents relating to the sending of a shipment of goods, for example containing details of contents, weight, value etc.
  • sign of the zodiac — one of the twelve constellations along the path of the ecliptic.
  • simone de beauvoir — Simone [see-mawn] /siˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), (Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand) 1908–86, French playwright, novelist, and essayist.
  • sinclair radionics — Sinclair Research
  • sindbad the sailor — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments), a wealthy citizen of Baghdad who relates the adventures of his seven wonderful voyages.
  • sit on one's hands — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • skin friction drag — aerodynamic resistance or drag due to the contact of moving air with the surface of an airplane, a glider, etc.
  • slim hole drilling — Slim hole drilling is drilling a well in which at least 90 percent of the hole has a diameter of seven inches or less.
  • slobodan milosevic — Slobodan [sloh-buh-dain] /ˈsloʊ bəˌdɛən/ (Show IPA), 1941–2006, Yugoslav and Serbian politician: president of Serbia 1989–97, president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1997–2000, accused of war crimes 2001.
  • small outline dimm — (storage)   (SO-DIMM) A smaller kind of DIMM with 72 pins (supporting 32-bit transfers) or 144 pins (64-bit transfers). Regular DIMMs have 168 pins and support 64-bit transfers. Being roughly half the size of the regular DIMM, SO-DIMMs are often used in notebook computers.
  • society of friends — a Christian denomination, founded in England c. 1650 by George Fox, that has no formal creed, liturgy, or priesthood and rejects violence in human relations, esp. warfare
  • 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 thiocyanate — a white powder or colorless, deliquescent crystals, NaSCN, used chiefly in organic synthesis and in medicine in the treatment of hypertension.
  • soldier of fortune — a person who independently seeks pleasure, wealth, etc., through adventurous exploits.
  • soldier settlement — the allocation of Crown land for farming to ex-servicemen
  • solid-fuel heating — heating that uses solid fuel, such as coal or coke
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