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18-letter words containing e, s, a

  • air-to-sea missile — a missile fired from an aircraft that has a target on the sea
  • airspeed indicator — a dial that indicates the airspeed at which an aircraft is travelling
  • alaska-hawaii time — the civil time officially adopted for a country or region, usually the civil time of some specific meridian lying within the region. The standard time zones in the U.S. (Atlantic time, Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time, Pacific time, Yukon time, Alaska-Hawaii time, and Bering time) use the civil times of the 60th, 75th, 90th, 105th, 120th, 135th, 150th, and 165th meridians respectively, the difference of time between one zone and the next being exactly one hour.
  • albert bruce sabin — Albert Bruce, 1906–93, U.S. physician, born in Poland: developed Sabin vaccine.
  • albrecht waldstein — Albrecht von [German ahl-brekht fuh n] /German ˈɑl brɛxt fən/ (Show IPA), Wallenstein, Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von.
  • alexander i island — an island of Antarctica, west of Palmer Land, in the Bellingshausen Sea. Length: about 378 km (235 miles)
  • alexius i comnenus — 1048–1118, ruler of the Byzantine Empire (1081–1118)
  • all meals included — All meals included is used to indicate that a price, especially the price of a hotel stay or vacation, includes the cost of meals in the hotel.
  • all the king's men — a novel (1946) by Robert Penn Warren.
  • all the same to me — If you say 'It's all the same to me', you mean that you do not care which of several things happens or is chosen.
  • almoner's cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
  • along the lines of — similar to
  • alternate straight — a hand consisting of five cards following one another by two in order of denomination, as a five, seven, nine, jack, and king, being of special value in certain games.
  • alternating series — a series, usually infinite, in which successive terms have opposite signs, as 1 − ½ + ¼ − ⅛ +. ….
  • alternative school — any public or private school having a special curriculum, especially an elementary or secondary school offering a more flexible program of study than a traditional school.
  • aluminium sulphate — a white crystalline salt used in the paper, textile, and dyeing industries and in the purification of water. Formula: Al2(SO4)3
  • ammonium phosphate — monoammonium phosphate.
  • andrew file system — (operating system, storage)   (AFS) The distributed file system of the Andrew Project, adopted by the OSF as part of their Distributed Computing Environment.
  • angiotensinogenase — (enzyme) renin.
  • angular dispersion — a measure of the angular separation of light rays of different wavelength or color traversing a prism or diffraction grating, equal to the rate of change of the angle of deviation with respect to the change in wavelength.
  • anniversary dinner — a dinner held to celebrate an event that occurred in some previous year
  • anti-commercialism — the principles, practices, and spirit of commerce.
  • anti-establishment — opposed to established authority
  • anti-miscegenation — marriage or cohabitation between two people from different racial groups, especially, in the U.S., between a black person and a white person: In 1968 the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that state laws prohibiting miscegenation were unconstitutional.
  • anticholinesterase — any of a group of substances that inhibit the action of cholinesterase
  • antiferromagnetism — the phenomenon exhibited by substances that resemble paramagnetic substances in the value of their relative permeability but that behave like ferromagnetic substances when their temperature is varied
  • antipatheticalness — The state or quality of being antipathetical.
  • antisegregationist — opposed to the segregation of different races in any human activity
  • antivirus software — (tool)   Programs to detect and remove computer viruses. The simplest kind scans executable files and boot blocks for a list of known viruses. Others are constantly active, attempting to detect the actions of general classes of viruses. antivirus software should always include a regular update service allowing it to keep up with the latest viruses as they are released.
  • antivivisectionist — a person who is opposed to vivisection
  • aperture synthesis — an array of radio telescopes used in radio astronomy to simulate a single large-aperture telescope. Some such instruments use movable dishes while others use fixed dishes
  • aphrodite of melos — a Greek statue of Venus in marble, c200 b.c., found in 1820 on Melos and now in the Louvre, Paris.
  • apocryphal gospels — accounts of Christ's life that are not recognized as part of the New Testament
  • apostolic delegate — a representative of the pope sent to countries that do not have full or regular diplomatic relations with the Holy See
  • apparent solar day — the period of time between two successive passages of the sun's center across the same meridian.
  • appellate division — the section of a court that hears appeals, sometimes existing as an intermediate court between a trial court and a court of last resort.
  • apple of one's eye — a person or thing that is very precious or much loved
  • application server — 1. A designer's or developer's suite of software that helps programmers isolate the business logic in their programs from the platform-related code. Application servers can handle all of the application logic and connectivity found in client-server applications. Many application servers also offer features such as transaction management, clustering and failover, and load balancing; nearly all offer ODBC support. 2. Production programs run on a mid-sized computer that handle all application operations between browser-based computers and an organisation's back-end business applications or databases. The application server works as a translator, allowing, for example, a customer with a browser to search an online retailer's database for pricing information. 3. The device on which application server software runs. Application Service Providers offer commercial access to such devices.
  • applied kinematics — kinematics (def 2).
  • applied psychology — psychology that is put to practical use
  • arbitration clause — a clause in a contract laying down that disputes between the parties should be settled by arbitration
  • aristotelian logic — the logical theories of Aristotle as developed in the Middle Ages, concerned mainly with syllogistic reasoning: traditional as opposed to modern or symbolic logic
  • aristotles-lantern — a complex arrangement of muscles and calcareous teeth and plates forming an eversible organ in most echinoids, functioning in mastication.
  • arm's-length price — a price of a transaction agreed in accordance with market values, disregarding any connection such as common ownership of the companies involved
  • arrest of judgment — a stay of proceedings after a verdict, on the grounds of error or possible error
  • arsenic trisulfide — a yellow or red crystalline substance, As 2 S 3 , occurring in nature as the mineral orpiment, and used as a pigment (king's yellow) and in pyrotechnics.
  • as clear as a bell — If something is as clear as a bell, it is very clear indeed.
  • as far as possible — to the greatest possible extent
  • as near as damn it — as near as possible; very near
  • as sound as a bell — If something is as sound as a bell it is healthy and not damaged in any way.
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