18-letter words containing n, a, s
- (in) the worst way — very much; greatly
- a flash in the pan — If you describe an achievement or success as a flash in the pan, you mean that it is unlikely to be repeated and is not an indication of future achievements or success.
- a good second best — an acceptable alternative
- a month of sundays — a long unspecified period
- a pain in the arse — In informal English, if you call someone or something a pain or a pain in the neck, you mean that they are very annoying or irritating. Expressions such as a pain in the arse and a pain in the backside in British English, or a pain in the ass and a pain in the butt in American English, are also used, but most people consider them offensive.
- a place in the sun — If you say that someone has found their place in the sun, you mean that they are in a job or a situation where they will be happy and have everything that they want.
- a plague on sb/sth — You say a plague on a particular person or thing when you are very irritated by them and do not want to bother with them any more.
- a shot in the dark — If you describe something someone says or does as a shot in the dark or a stab in the dark, you mean they are guessing that what they say is correct or that what they do will be successful.
- a slap in the face — If you describe something that someone does as a slap in the face, you mean that it shocks or upsets you because it shows that they do not support you or respect you.
- a slap on the back — congratulation
- able-bodied seaman — an ordinary seaman, esp one in the merchant navy, who has been trained in certain skills
- abominable snowman — a large legendary manlike or apelike creature, alleged to inhabit the Himalayan Mountains
- absolute magnitude — the apparent magnitude a given star would have if it were situated at a distance of 10 parsecs (32.6 light years) from the earth
- absorption costing — a method of cost accounting in which overheads are apportioned to cost centres, where they are absorbed using predetermined rates
- academie francaise — French Academy.
- acceptance testing — (programming) Formal testing conducted to determine whether a system satisfies its acceptance criteria and thus whether the customer should accept the system.
- accident insurance — insurance providing compensation for accidental injury or death
- accident proneness — the unconscious tendency, thought to exist in some people, to involve themselves in a large number of accidents
- acorn risc machine — (processor) The original name of the Advanced RISC Machine.
- acoustic impedance — the total reaction of a medium to the transmission of sound through it, expressed as the ratio of sound pressure to particle velocity at a given point in the medium.
- acoustic inertance — inertance.
- acoustic phonetics — the branch of phonetics concerned with the acoustic properties of human speech
- acoustic reactance — acoustic impedance caused by the inertia and elasticity of the transmitting medium.
- adaptive answering — (communications) A feature which allows a faxmodem to answer the telephone and decide whether the incoming call is a fax or data call. Most Class 1 faxmodems do this. The U.S. Robotics Class 1 implementation however seems not to do it, it must be set to answer as either one or the other.
- address resolution — (networking) Conversion of an Internet address into the corresponding physical address (Ethernet address). This is usually done using Address Resolution Protocol. The resolver is a library routine and a set of processes which converts hostnames into Internet addresses, though this process in not usually referred to as resolution. See DNS.
- addressing machine — a printer that prints addresses directly on to letters, labels, and envelopes
- adenocarcinomatous — Of or pertaining to adenocarcinomas.
- adenosylmethionine — (biochemistry) An adenosyl derivative of methionine that is a common co-substrate involved in transmethylation.
- adjustable spanner — a tool with adjustable jaws used for turning bolts, etc
- administered price — a price determined by a seller's pricing policy and not by market forces, supply and demand, etc
- administrative law — law relating to the control of government power
- adverse possession — the occupation or possession of land by a person not legally entitled to it. If continued unopposed for a period specifed by law, such occupation extinguishes the title of the rightful owner
- advertising agency — An advertising agency is a company whose business is to create advertisements for other companies or organizations.
- advice and consent — a phrase in the Constitution (Article II, Section 2) allowing the Senate to restrain presidential powers of appointment and treaty-making.
- aerospace medicine — aviation medicine
- aerothermodynamics — the study of the exchange of heat between solids and gases, esp of the heating effect on aircraft flying through the air at very high speeds
- aesthetic distance — a degree of detachment from or nonidentification with the characters or circumstances of a work of art, permitting the formation of judgments based on aesthetic rather than extra-aesthetic criteria.
- age discrimination — discrimination against older people, especially by employers
- agostino di duccio — 1415–81, Italian sculptor, noted for his carved marble panels in the interior of the Tempio Malatestiano at Rimini
- agro-industrialize — to industrialize the agriculture of: to agro-industrialize a developing nation.
- ailanthus silkworm — a green silkworm, Samia walkeri, introduced into the U.S. from China, that feeds on the leaves of the ailanthus.
- airman first class — the third lowest enlisted rank in the US Air Force, above airman and below senior airman
- airspeed indicator — a dial that indicates the airspeed at which an aircraft is travelling
- 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.
- alcoholic solution — An alcoholic solution is mixture of water and ethanol, used as a solvent.
- 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.
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