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18-letter words containing d, u, t, i, e

  • supraorbital ridge — browridge.
  • sutton-in-ashfield — a market town in N central England, in W Nottinghamshire. Pop: 41 951 (2001)
  • tertiary education — education, following secondary education at a school, at a college or university
  • the hotel industry — the branch of the services industry which provides hotels
  • the movie industry — the industry that makes entertainment films or movies
  • the-master-builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • theodore gericault — (Jean Louis André) Théodore [zhahn lwee ahn-drey tey-aw-dawr] /ʒɑ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈdreɪ teɪ ɔˈdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1791–1824, French painter.
  • therese de lisieuxSaint (Marie Françoise Thérèse Martin"the Little Flower") 1873–97, French Carmelite nun.
  • thin on the ground — If people or things of a particular kind are thin on the ground, there are very few of them.
  • thioarsenious acid — any of a group of hypothetical acids, H3AsS3, HAsS2, and H4As2S5, known only in the forms of their salts
  • third man argument — (in the philosophy of Aristotle) the argument against the existence of Platonic Forms that since the Form of Man is itself a perfect man, a further form (the "third" man) would be required to explain this, and so ad infinitum
  • to close your mind — If you close your mind to something, you deliberately do not think about it or pay attention to it.
  • to come unstitched — to go wrong or awry
  • 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.
  • tranquillizer dart — a dart filled with a tranquillizer that is shot from a gun in order to temporarily sedate an animal so that it may be handled safely
  • tristan und isolde — a music drama (composed, 1857–59; première, 1865) by Richard Wagner.
  • tufted loosestrife — a primulaceous plant Naumburgia thyrsiflora
  • ultrasonic welding — the use of high-energy vibration of ultrasonic frequency to produce a weld between two components which are held in close contact
  • under the aegis of — guided or protected by
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • united arab states — a former (1958–61) federation of the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) and Yemen.
  • united nations day — the anniversary of the United Nations on October 24, marking its founding in 1945.
  • 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.
  • united states navy — the permanent or regular naval force of the United States, under the authority of the Department of Defense since 1947. Abbreviation: USN.
  • university student — a student enrolled in a university
  • urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
  • 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.
  • white man's burden — the alleged duty of white colonizers to care for nonwhite indigenous subjects in their colonial possessions.
  • white-footed mouse — any of several North American woodland mice of the genus Peromyscus, especially P. leucopus, having white feet and undersides.
  • widemouth blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
  • wildlife sanctuary — an area where wild animals and plants are protected
  • wood-burning stove — cooker: fueled by wood
  • yeast nucleic acid — RNA.
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