18-letter words containing o, l, d, r, u, s
- national guardsman — guardsman (def 2).
- non-understandable — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- nonstriated muscle — smooth muscle
- nueva san salvador — Santa Tecla.
- old curiosity shop — a novel (1840–41) by Dickens.
- 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.
- order of australia — an order awarded to Australians for outstanding achievement or for service to Australia or to humanity at large; established in 1975
- percussion welding — a form of resistance welding in which the required pressure is provided by a hammerlike blow.
- personal bodyguard — a person employed to protect a particular person
- potassium chloride — a white or colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, KCl, used chiefly in the manufacture of fertilizers and mineral water, and as a source of other potassium compounds.
- potassium fluoride — a white, crystalline, hygroscopic, toxic powder, KF, used chiefly as an insecticide, a disinfectant, and in etching glass.
- process scheduling — multitasking
- pseudotuberculosis — an acute, sometimes fatal disease of rodents, birds, and other animals, including humans, caused by the bacterium Yersinia (Pasteurella) pseudotuberculosis, and characterized by the formation of nodules resembling those that result from tuberculosis.
- pyrosulphuric acid — a fuming liquid acid made by adding sulphur trioxide to concentrated sulphuric acid. Formula: H2S2O7
- red-spotted purple — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
- rheims-douay bible — Douay Bible.
- rub shoulders with — to mix with socially or associate with
- saturated solution — A saturated solution is a solution in which there is so much solute that if there was any more, it would not dissolve.
- shop till you drop — If you shop till you drop, you do a large amount of shopping.
- sodium-vapour lamp — a type of electric lamp consisting of a glass tube containing neon and sodium vapour at low pressure through which an electric current is passed to give an orange light. They are used in street lighting
- soldier of fortune — a person who independently seeks pleasure, wealth, etc., through adventurous exploits.
- 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.
- standoff insulator — a type of insulator that supports an electrical conductor at a distance from other elements or surfaces.
- 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.
- sunflower seed oil — the oil extracted from sunflower seeds, used as a salad oil, in the manufacture of margarine, etc
- supraorbital ridge — browridge.
- the hotel industry — the branch of the services industry which provides hotels
- thiosulphuric acid — an unstable acid known only in solutions and in the form of its salts. Formula: H2S2O3
- 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.
- tristan und isolde — a music drama (composed, 1857–59; première, 1865) by Richard Wagner.
- tufted loosestrife — a primulaceous plant Naumburgia thyrsiflora
- ultrasonic welding — the use of high-energy vibration of ultrasonic frequency to produce a weld between two components which are held in close contact
- ultrasound scanner — a device used to examine an internal bodily structure by the use of ultrasonic waves, esp for the diagnosis of abnormality in a fetus
- under (one's) seal — in a document authenticated by one's seal
- ur of the chaldees — the city where Abraham was born, sometimes identified with the Sumerian city of Ur. Gen. 11:28, 31; 15:7; Neh. 9:7.
- video surveillance — a system of monitoring activity in an area or building using a television system in which signals are transmitted from a television camera to the receivers by cables or telephone links forming a closed circuit
- wrongful dismissal — the act of making someone redundant for reasons which are illegal or unjust