18-letter words containing e, n, d, o, r, s

mineralocorticoids — Plural form of mineralocorticoid.
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
misunderestimation — (nonstandard) An inaccurate underestimation, or an act of misunderestimating.
monophosphorylated — (biochemistry) phosphorylated with a single unit of phosphoric acid.
movers and shakers — a person or thing that moves.
multi-user dungeon — Multi-User Dimension
needle-nose pliers — long thin pliers
neuropsychodynamic — Of or pertaining to neuropsychodynamics.
new forest disease — an infectious eye disease causing acute eye pain in cattle
nominative-address — a noun naming the person to whom one is speaking.
non-correspondence — communication by exchange of letters.
non-discriminative — constituting a particular quality, trait, or difference; characteristic; notable.
non-understandable — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
nondestructiveness — The quality of not being destructive.
nonstriated muscle — smooth muscle
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.
north bedfordshire — a city in Bedfordshire, in central England.
northeast corridor — the long, narrow strip of land between Boston, New York City, and Washington, D.C., containing many adjacent urban areas.
nueva san salvador — Santa Tecla.
office of readings — the first of the canonical hours; matins
on the credit side — You say on the credit side in order to introduce one or more good things about a situation or person, usually when you have already mentioned the bad things about them.
on the danger list — critically ill in hospital
one's heart bleeds — used to express sympathetic grief, but often used ironically
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.
osteitis deformans — Paget's disease.
osteoradionecrosis — bone tissue death induced by radiation.
overdraft interest — interest charged on money withdrawn in excess of the credit balance of a bank or building society account
pass the hat round — to collect money, as for a cause
passing-out parade — a ceremonial parade of cadets who have completed their training
pectoral sandpiper — an American sandpiper, Calidris melanotos, the male of which, when courting, inflates its chest conspicuously.
percussion welding — a form of resistance welding in which the required pressure is provided by a hammerlike blow.
personal bodyguard — a person employed to protect a particular person
pescadores-islands — (used with a plural verb) Penghu.
phosphatidylserine — any of a class of phospholipids occurring in biological membranes and fats
postviral syndrome — debilitating condition occurring as a sequel to viral illness
precedence lossage — /pre's*-dens los'*j/ A misunderstanding of operator precedence resulting in unintended grouping of arithmetic or logical operators when coding an expression. Used especially of mistakes in C code due to the nonintuitively low precedence of "&", "|", "^", "<<" and ">>". For example, the following C expression, intended to test the least significant bit of x, x & 1 == 0 is parsed as x & (1 == 0) which is always zero (false). Some lazy programmers ignore precedence and parenthesise everything. Lisp fans enjoy pointing out that this can't happen in *their* favourite language, which eschews precedence entirely, requiring one to use explicit parentheses everywhere.
predation pressure — the effect of predation upon a population, resulting in the decrease in size of that population.
preferred position — especially desirable advertising space for which, if it is specifically requested by the advertiser, a publication charges a premium rate.
preservation order — In Britain, a preservation order is an official order that makes it illegal for anyone to alter or destroy something such as an old building or an area of countryside.
prestidigitization — /pres`t*-di"j*-ti:-zay"sh*n/ 1. A term coined by Daniel Klein <[email protected]> for the act of putting something into digital notation via sleight of hand. 2. Data entry through legerdemain.
price on sb's head — If there is a price on someone 's head, an amount of money has been offered for the capture or killing of that person.
prince of darkness — Satan.
prisoner's dilemma — (in game theory) a scenario in which the outcome of one person's decision is determined by the simultaneous decisions of the other participants, resulting in a bad outcome for all of them if all act in their own self-interest.
process identifier — (operating system) (PID) An integer used by the Unix kernel to uniquely identify a process. PIDs are returned by the fork system call and can be passed to wait() or kill() to perform actions on the given process.
process scheduling — multitasking
progressive coding — (graphics, file format, algorithm) (Or "interlacing") An aspect of a graphics storage format or transmission algorithm that treats bitmap image data non-sequentially in such a way that later data adds progressively greater resolution to an already full-size image. This contrasts with sequential coding. Progressive coding is useful when an image is being sent across a slow communications channel, such as the Internet, as the low-resolution image may be sufficient to allow the user to decide not to wait for the rest of the file to be received. In an interlaced GIF89 image, the pixels in a row are stored sequentially but the rows are stored in interlaced order, e.g. 0, 8, 4, 12, 2, 6, 8, 10, 14, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15. Each vertical scan adds rows in the middle of the gaps left by the previous one. Interlacing is also supported by other formats. JPEG supports a functionally similar concept known as Progressive JPEG. [How does the algorithm differ?] See also progressive/sequential coding.
progressive dinner — a dinner party in which each successive course is prepared and eaten at the residence of a different participant.
prometheus unbound — a drama in verse (1820) by Shelley.
pseudo-anarchistic — a person who advocates or believes in anarchy or anarchism.

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