18-letter words containing o, d, s, u, n, i
- dysfunctionalities — Plural form of dysfunctionality.
- executive decision — a decision made by a person or group that has executive power
- fast-food industry — the industry surrounding fast-food restaurants
- field of quotients — a field whose elements are pairs of elements of a given commutative integral domain such that the second element of each pair is not zero. The field of rational numbers is the field of quotients of the integral domain of integers.
- fissure of rolando — central sulcus.
- foundling hospital — an institutional home for foundlings.
- functional disease — a disease in which there is an abnormal change in the function of an organ, but no structural alteration in the tissues involved (opposed to organic disease).
- funding operations — the conversion of government floating stock or short-term debt into holdings of long-term bonds
- gamma distribution — a continuous two-parameter distribution from which the chi-square and exponential distributions are derived, written Gamma (α. β), where α and β are greater than zero, and defined in terms of the gamma function
- geodetic surveying — the surveying of the earth's surface, making allowance for its curvature and giving an accurate framework for smaller-scale surveys
- guidance counselor — advisor in schools
- honour moderations — (at Oxford University) the first public examination, in which candidates are placed into one of three classes of honours
- house of detention — a place maintained by the civil authorities for persons charged with a crime, and sometimes for witnesses, awaiting trial.
- housing conditions — the physical state of houses or dwellings
- ifs, ands, or buts — a supposition; uncertain possibility: The future is full of ifs.
- immunodeficiencies — Plural form of immunodeficiency.
- in your mind's eye — If you see something in your mind's eye, you imagine it and have a clear picture of it in your mind.
- incentive discount — a discount on goods offered to customers, usually as a reward for repeated business or for bringing in other customers
- indirect discourse — discourse consisting not of an exact quotation of a speaker's words but of a version transformed from them for grammatical inclusion in a larger sentence. He said he was hungry is an example of indirect discourse.
- indus civilization — an ancient civilization that flourished in the Indus River valley, from about 2500 to 1500 b.c.: extensive archaeological excavations at the main sites of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa in Pakistan.
- industrial diamond — a small often synthetic diamond, valueless as a gemstone, used in cutting tools, abrasives, etc
- infectious disease — illness spread by person to person
- jump discontinuity — a discontinuity of a function at a point where the function has finite, but unequal, limits as the independent variable approaches the point from the left and from the right. Compare jump (def 52).
- loschmidt's number — the number of molecules in one cubic centimeter of an ideal gas at standard temperature and pressure, equal to 2.687 × 10 19.
- magnesium peroxide — a white, tasteless, water-insoluble powder, MgO 2 , used as an antiseptic and as an oxidizing and bleaching agent.
- make up one's mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
- malicious wounding — the intentional violent wounding or injuring of someone
- misunderestimation — (nonstandard) An inaccurate underestimation, or an act of misunderestimating.
- modulus of torsion — a coefficient of elasticity of a substance, expressing the ratio between the force per unit area (shearing stress) that laterally deforms the substance and the shear (shearing strain) that is produced by this force.
- mousseline de soie — a thin, stiff silk or rayon fabric.
- multi-user dungeon — Multi-User Dimension
- national guardsman — guardsman (def 2).
- neuropsychodynamic — Of or pertaining to neuropsychodynamics.
- non-fundamentalist — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
- nondestructiveness — The quality of not being destructive.
- nonstriated muscle — smooth muscle
- oedipus at colonus — a tragedy by Sophocles, written toward the end of his life and produced posthumously in 401? b.c.
- optical soundtrack — the final soundtrack on a motion picture, which appears as a band of black and white serrations along a strip of film to the left of the composite print. Light is shined through the serrations and is converted to audible sound.
- orthotungstic acid — an oxyacid acid of tungsten. Formula: H2WO4
- outside-in testing — (testing) A strategy for integration testing where units handling program inputs and outputs are tested first, and units that process the inputs to produce output are incrementally included as the system is integrated. A form of hybrid testing.
- oxalosuccinic acid — an organic acid, C 6 H 6 O 7 , that is an intermediate formed by the dehydrogenation of isocitric acid in fat and carbohydrate metabolism.
- passing modulation — a modulation of a temporary nature.
- passing-out parade — a ceremonial parade of cadets who have completed their training
- percussion welding — a form of resistance welding in which the required pressure is provided by a hammerlike blow.
- phosphonium iodide — a colorless to slightly yellowish, crystalline, water-soluble solid, PH 4 I, used in chemical synthesis.
- physical education — systematic instruction in sports, exercises, and hygiene given as part of a school or college program.
- pitch-and-run shot — chip shot.
- population density — ratio: inhabitants to area
- predation pressure — the effect of predation upon a population, resulting in the decrease in size of that population.
- process scheduling — multitasking