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18-letter words containing o, a, r

  • (go) off the rails — (to go) off the proper course
  • (in) the worst way — very much; greatly
  • a barrel of laughs — If an experience is a barrel of laughs, it is very enjoyable. If someone is a barrel of laughs, they are fun to be with.
  • a bit of all right — a sexually attractive woman
  • a farewell to arms — a novel (1929) by Ernest Hemingway.
  • a foot in the door — an action, appointment, etc, that provides an initial step towards a desired goal, esp one that is not easily attainable
  • a piece of crumpet — a sexually desirable woman
  • 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.
  • aarp probe packets — (networking)   AARP packets sent out on a nonextended AppleTalk network to discover whether a randomly selected node ID is being used by any node. If not, the sending node uses the node ID. If so, it chooses a different ID and sends more AARP probe packets.
  • abortion-on-demand — the right of a woman to have an abortion during the first six months of a pregnancy.
  • absolute threshold — the minimum intensity of a stimulus at which it can just be perceived
  • absorption costing — a method of cost accounting in which overheads are apportioned to cost centres, where they are absorbed using predetermined rates
  • accident proneness — the unconscious tendency, thought to exist in some people, to involve themselves in a large number of accidents
  • accommodation road — a road that serves residential properties or a piece of land but which is not considered a public highway
  • according to hoyle — according to the rules and regulations; in the prescribed, fair, or correct way
  • account receivable — a current asset account showing amounts payable to a firm by customers who have made purchases of goods and services on credit
  • accretionary wedge — a body of deformed sediments, wedge-shaped in two dimensions or prism-shaped in three dimensions, that has been scraped off the surface of the oceanic lithosphere as it moves downwards beneath a continent or island arc. The sediments are added to the continental edge
  • acid precipitation — meteorological precipitation that is relatively acidic.
  • acorn online media — (company)   A company formed in August 1994 by Acorn Computer Group plc to exploit the ARM RISC in television set-top box decoders. They planned to woo British Telecommunications plc to use the box in some of its video on demand trials. The "STB1" box was based on an ARM8 core with additional circuits to enable MPEG to be decoded in software - possibly dedicated instructions for interpolation, inverse DCT or Huffman table extraction. A prototype featured audio MPEG chips, Acorn's RISC OS operating system and supported Oracle Media Objects and Microword. Online planned to reduce component count by transferring functions from boards into the single RISC chip. The company was origianlly wholly owned by Acorn but was expected to bring in external investment. In 1996 they releasd the imaginatively titled "Set Top Box 2" (STB20M) with a 32 MHz ARM 7500 and 2 to 32 MB RAM. There was also a "Set Top Box 22".
  • acorn risc machine — (processor)   The original name of the Advanced RISC Machine.
  • acoustic inertance — inertance.
  • acoustic reactance — acoustic impedance caused by the inertia and elasticity of the transmitting medium.
  • acquired behaviour — the behaviour of an organism resulting from the effects of the environment
  • activated charcoal — a form of carbon having very fine pores: used chiefly for adsorbing gases or solutes, as in various filter systems for purification, deodorization, and decolorization.
  • actual bodily harm — Actual bodily harm is a criminal offence in which someone gives another person a minor injury.
  • adaptive radiation — evolution of a number of divergent species from a common ancestor, each species becoming adapted to occupy a different environment. This type of evolution occurred in the Tertiary manuals and the Mesozoic reptiles
  • 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.
  • adenocarcinomatous — Of or pertaining to adenocarcinomas.
  • adjournment debate — (in the UK) a short debate, held immediately before the end of each day's business in the House of Commons, in which backbench MPs raise matters relating to their constituencies
  • admirable crichton — a comedy (1902) by Sir James M. Barrie.
  • adobe type manager — (text, tool, product)   (ATM) Software that produces PostScript outline fonts on screen and paper. There are versions that run under Microsoft Windows and on the Macintosh. ATM can do hinting, multiple master and anti-aliasing.
  • 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
  • aerial photography — Aerial photography is the process of taking photographs of an area from above, for example from an airplane or mast.
  • aeronautical chart — a topographic map of an area of the earth's surface, designed as an aid to aircraft navigation
  • 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
  • affective disorder — any mental disorder, such as depression or mania, that is characterized by abnormal disturbances of mood
  • affirmative action — Affirmative action is the policy of giving jobs and other opportunities to members of groups such as racial minorities or women who might not otherwise have them.
  • african lion hound — one of a South African breed of medium-sized muscular hunting dogs having a short, glossy, red or tan coat, with a characteristic ridge of hair along the spine consisting of parallel crowns of hair growing in the opposite direction of the rest of the coat, originally developed for hunting lions but now used primarily as a guard dog.
  • african yellowwood — a tree, Podocarpus elongatus, of tropical Africa and the mountains of southern Africa, having globe-shaped fruit, grown as an ornamental.
  • age discrimination — discrimination against older people, especially by employers
  • aggravated robbery — a robbery made more serious by its violent circumstances
  • agri-environmental — of or relating to the impact of agricultural practices on the environment
  • agro-industrialize — to industrialize the agriculture of: to agro-industrialize a developing nation.
  • ahead of the curve — People, products or ideas that are ahead of the curve are more advanced or modern than others of their kind.
  • ahead of your time — If someone is ahead of their time or before their time, they have new ideas a long time before other people start to think in the same way.
  • ailanthus silkworm — a green silkworm, Samia walkeri, introduced into the U.S. from China, that feeds on the leaves of the ailanthus.
  • air national guard — a national guard organization similar to and coordinate with the U.S. Air Force.
  • air-to-air missile — a missile fired from an aircraft that targets other aircraft in flight
  • air-to-sea missile — a missile fired from an aircraft that has a target on the sea

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