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18-letter words containing i, d, y, l, s

  • mutual aid society — A mutual aid society is an organization that provides benefits or other help to its members when they are affected by things such as death, sickness, disability, old age, or unemployment.
  • my lips are sealed — If you tell someone that your lips are sealed, you are promising them that you will keep a secret that they have told you.
  • needlestick injury — an injury that is caused by accidentally pricking the skin with a hypodermic needle
  • normally aspirated — A normally aspirated or naturally aspirated engine breathes air at atmospheric pressure.
  • old curiosity shop — a novel (1840–41) by Dickens.
  • organic solidarity — social cohesiveness that is based on division of labor and interdependence and is characteristic of complex, industrial societies.
  • parathyroid glands — any of several small oval glands usually lying near or embedded in the thyroid gland.
  • payload specialist — an astronaut trained to handle highly complex or classified equipment carried aboard a space shuttle and to conduct experiments in space.
  • pennsylvania dutch — the descendants of 17th- and 18th-century settlers in Pennsylvania from southwest Germany and Switzerland.
  • phosphatidylserine — any of a class of phospholipids occurring in biological membranes and fats
  • physical education — systematic instruction in sports, exercises, and hygiene given as part of a school or college program.
  • play second fiddle — be considered less important
  • population density — ratio: inhabitants to area
  • positively charged — having a positive charge
  • postviral syndrome — debilitating condition occurring as a sequel to viral illness
  • pre-filled syringe — A pre-filled syringe is a disposable syringe that is supplied already loaded with the substance to be injected.
  • pyrosulphuric acid — a fuming liquid acid made by adding sulphur trioxide to concentrated sulphuric acid. Formula: H2S2O7
  • quevedo y villegas — Francisco Gómez de. 1580–1645, Spanish poet and writer, noted for his satires and the picaresque novel La historia de la vida del Buscón (1626)
  • rear its ugly head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • reflection density — a measure of the extent to which a surface reflects light or other electromagnetic radiation, equal to the logarithm to base ten of the reciprocal of the reflectance
  • rheims-douay bible — Douay Bible.
  • secondary diagonal — a diagonal line or plane.
  • secondary syphilis — the second stage of syphilis, characterized by eruptions of the skin and mucous membrane.
  • self-contradictory — an act or instance of contradicting oneself or itself.
  • self-deprecatingly — in a self-deprecating manner
  • september holidays — a period of time in September when people do not have to go to school, college or work
  • shop till you drop — If you shop till you drop, you do a large amount of shopping.
  • sodium hyposulfite — sodium thiosulfate.
  • sodium polysulfide — a yellow-brown, water-soluble, granular powder, Na 2 S n , used chiefly in the manufacture of sulfur dyes, insecticides, and synthetic rubber.
  • solitary sandpiper — a North American sandpiper, Tringa solitaria, of inland wetlands, having a brownish-gray, white-spotted back and whitish underparts.
  • solubility product — the maximum number of undissociated ions, of an electrolyte in a saturated solution, capable at a given temperature of remaining in equilibrium with the undissolved phase of the solution.
  • strathclyde region — a former local government region in W Scotland: formed in 1975 from Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire, Buteshire, Dunbartonshire, and parts of Argyllshire, Ayrshire, and Stirlingshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Glasgow, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Argyll and Bute, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and East Ayrshire
  • street credibility — street cred.
  • submaxillary gland — submandibular gland.
  • sulfuric anhydride — sulfur trioxide.
  • superciliary ridge — browridge.
  • the encyclopedists — the writers of the French Encyclopedia (1751-72) edited by Diderot and d'Alembert, which contained the advanced ideas of the period
  • the hotel industry — the branch of the services industry which provides hotels
  • to close your mind — If you close your mind to something, you deliberately do not think about it or pay attention to it.
  • to gird your loins — If you gird your loins, you prepare to do something difficult or dangerous.
  • wesleyan methodist — a member of any of the churches founded on the evangelical principles of John Wesley.
  • white-spotted hyla — a type of tree frog (H. leucophyllata) of tropical America
  • wildlife sanctuary — an area where wild animals and plants are protected
  • withdrawal symptom — effects of stopping a drug
  • yeast nucleic acid — RNA.
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