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18-letter words containing e, m, i, t, a

  • temporal summation — the act or process of summing.
  • the american dream — the notion that the American social, economic, and political system makes success possible for every individual
  • the beautiful game — football
  • the black mountain — a mountain range in S Wales, in E Carmarthenshire and W Powys. Highest peak: Carmarthen Van, 802 m (2632 ft)
  • the damage is done — If you say 'the damage is done', you mean that it is too late now to prevent the harmful effects of something that has already happened.
  • the dismal science — a name for economics coined by Thomas Carlyle
  • the family compact — the ruling oligarchy in Upper Canada in the early 19th century
  • the hand of fatima — a symbol of a hand used in some Arabic countries to protect against the evil eye, a magical power
  • the magnolia state — a nickname referring to Mississippi
  • the major rogation — April 25, observed by Christians as a day of solemn supplication for the harvest and marked by processions, special prayers, and blessing of the crops
  • the masurian lakes — a group of lakes in Masuria in NE Poland: scene of Russian defeats by the Germans (1914, 1915) during World War I
  • the middle passage — the journey across the Atlantic Ocean from the W coast of Africa to the Caribbean: the longest part of the journey of the slave ships sailing to the Caribbean or the Americas
  • the mountain state — a nickname referring to West Virginia
  • the-master-builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • thermal efficiency — the ratio of the work output of a heat engine to the heat input expressed in the same units of energy.
  • 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
  • thomas alva edison — Thomas Alva [al-vuh] /ˈæl və/ (Show IPA), 1847–1931, U.S. inventor, especially of electrical devices.
  • three-quarter time — the meter of a musical composition having a time signature of 3/4 and three quarter notes or their equivalent in each measure.
  • timber rattlesnake — a rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus horridus, of the eastern U.S., usually having the body marked with dark crossbands.
  • to raise the alarm — If you raise the alarm or sound the alarm, you warn people of danger.
  • 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.
  • to take a dim view — If you take a dim view or a poor view of someone or something, you disapprove of them or have a low opinion of them.
  • to take the mickey — If you take the mickey out of someone or something, you make fun of them, usually in an unkind way.
  • transfinite number — an infinite cardinal or ordinal number.
  • transit instrument — Astronomy. meridian circle.
  • transition element — any element in any of the series of elements with atomic numbers 21–29, 39–47, 57–79, and 89–107, that in a given inner orbital has less than a full quota of electrons.
  • transmission brake — A transmission brake is a brake that operates on the transmission system of a vehicle rather than directly on the wheels.
  • traveling salesman — a male representative of a business firm who travels in an assigned territory soliciting orders for a company's products or services.
  • treasury of merits — the superabundant store of merits and satisfactions, comprising those of Christ, the Virgin Mary, and the saints.
  • triarylmethane dye — any of the class of dyes containing three aryl groups attached to a central carbon atom: used chiefly for dyeing cotton, wool, and silk.
  • tristimulus values — three values that together are used to describe a colour and are the amounts of three reference colours that can be mixed to give the same visual sensation as the colour considered
  • two-minute warning — a time-out called by an official to notify both teams that two minutes remain in a half.
  • under-compensation — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
  • 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.
  • unfair competition — acts done by a seller to confuse or deceive the public with intent to acquire a larger portion of the market, as by cutting prices below cost, misleading advertising, selling a spurious product under a false identity, etc.
  • unit magnetic pole — the unit of magnetic pole strength equal to the strength of a magnetic pole that repels a similar pole with a force of one dyne, the two poles being placed in a vacuum and separated by a distance of one centimeter.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • victor emmanuel ii — 1820–78, king of Sardinia 1849–78; first king of Italy 1861–78.
  • video compact disc — (storage)   (VCD) A storage format used for film distribution.
  • vitamin a aldehyde — retinal2 .
  • vitamin deficiency — a lack of a vitamin or vitamins needed for good health
  • vitelline membrane — the membrane surrounding the egg yolk.
  • vosges (mountains) — mountain range in NE France, west of the Rhine: highest peak, c. 4,700 ft (1,433 m)
  • wage determination — the process of setting wage rates or establishing wage structures in particular situations
  • wandering minstrel — travelling performer
  • waste minimization — a policy of generating as little waste as possible
  • watchdog committee — a committee responsible for monitoring standards of behaviour
  • watson-crick model — a widely accepted model for the three-dimensional structure of DNA, featuring a double-helix configuration for the molecule's two hydrogen-bonded complementary polynucleotide strands.
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