18-letter words containing l, o, n, r
- stretch one's legs — either of the two lower limbs of a biped, as a human being, or any of the paired limbs of an animal, arthropod, etc., that support and move the body.
- student councillor — a student who is a member of a council or body representing the interests of students at a school, university or college
- subordinate clause — a clause that modifies the principal clause or some part of it or that serves a noun function in the principal clause, as when she arrived in the sentence I was there when she arrived or that she has arrived in the sentence I doubt that she has arrived.
- sugarloaf mountain — a mountain in SE Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, at the entrance to Guanabara Bay. 1280 feet (390 meters).
- sunflower seed oil — the oil extracted from sunflower seeds, used as a salad oil, in the manufacture of margarine, etc
- super giant slalom — a slalom race in which the course is longer and has more widely spaced gates than in a giant slalom.
- task control block — (architecture) An MVS control block used to communicate information about tasks within an address space that are connected to an MVS subsystem such as MQSeries for MVS/ESA or CICS.
- teacher evaluation — the process of vetting teachers to maintain teaching standards
- tectorial membrane — membrane in the inner ear that covers the organ of Corti
- telephone receiver — a device, as in a telephone, that converts changes in an electric current into sound.
- telford and wrekin — a unitary authority in W Central England, in Shropshire. Pop: 160 300 (2003 est). Area: 289 sq km (112 sq miles)
- temporal summation — the act or process of summing.
- tender loving care — considerate and kindly care, as of someone who is ill, upset, etc
- territorialization — to extend by adding new territory.
- tetrachloromethane — carbon tetrachloride.
- the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
- the electronic age — the electronic age began when electronic equipment, including computers came into use
- the grand national — an annual steeplechase run at Aintree, Liverpool, since 1839
- the hotel industry — the branch of the services industry which provides hotels
- the internationale — a revolutionary socialist hymn, first sung in 1871 in France
- the north atlantic — the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean, especially the waters separating North America and Europe
- the sun also rises — a novel (1926) by Ernest Hemingway.
- there's no telling — You use there's no telling to introduce a statement when you want to say that it is impossible to know what will happen in a situation.
- thermogalvanometer — a thermoammeter for measuring small currents, consisting of a thermocouple connected to a direct-current galvanometer.
- thermoluminescence — phosphorescence produced by the heating of a substance.
- thermonuclear bomb — hydrogen bomb.
- think the world of — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
- thorfinn karlsefni — 980–after 1007, Icelandic navigator, explorer, and leader of early colonizing expedition to Vinland, in North America.
- throw in the towel — an absorbent cloth or paper for wiping and drying something wet, as one for the hands, face, or body after washing or bathing.
- throw oneself into — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
- to a grinding halt — If you describe a bad situation as grinding, you mean it never gets better, changes, or ends.
- to all appearances — apparently
- to bare one's soul — If you bare your soul, you tell someone your most secret thoughts and feelings.
- 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.
- to learn the ropes — If you are learning the ropes, you are learning how a particular task or job is done.
- to lose your nerve — If you lose your nerve, you suddenly panic and become too afraid to do something that you were about to do.
- to scrape a living — If you say that someone scrapes a living or scratches a living, you mean that they manage to earn enough to live on, but it is very difficult. In American English, you say they scrape out a living or scratch out a living.
- traditional option — an option that once purchased cannot be resold
- traditional policy — a life assurance policy in which the policyholder's premiums are paid into a general fund and his or her investment benefits are calculated according to actuarial formulae
- traditional weapon — a weapon having ceremonial tribal significance, such as an assegai or knobkerrie
- traffic controller — a person whose job is to control the flow of air traffic
- transcendental ego — (in Kantian epistemology) that part of the self that is the subject and never the object.
- transit theodolite — a theodolite having a telescope that can be transited.
- 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.
- translation agency — an organization that provide people to translate speech or writing into a different language
- treaty obligations — obligations or duties that must be carried out by a party as according to a treaty they have entered into
- triangle of forces — a triangle whose sides represent the magnitudes and directions of three forces whose resultant is zero and which are therefore in equilibrium
- trickle irrigation — drip irrigation.
- tristan und isolde — a music drama (composed, 1857–59; première, 1865) by Richard Wagner.