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18-letter words containing o, p, e, d

  • to speak your mind — If you speak your mind, you say firmly and honestly what you think about a situation, even if this may offend or upset people.
  • to sweep the board — If someone sweeps the board in a competition or election, they win nearly everything that it is possible to win.
  • traditional weapon — a weapon having ceremonial tribal significance, such as an assegai or knobkerrie
  • transporter bridge — a bridge for carrying passengers and vehicles by means of a platform suspended from a trolley.
  • under-compensation — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
  • under-depreciation — decrease in value due to wear and tear, decay, decline in price, etc.
  • unit-linked policy — a life-assurance policy, the investment benefits of which are directly in proportion to the number of units in a unit trust purchased on the policyholder's behalf
  • vanadium pentoxide — a yellow to red crystalline compound, V 2 O 5 , slightly soluble in water, used as a catalyst for organic reactions, in glass to absorb ultraviolet radiation, and as a photographic developer.
  • vectorcardiography — a method of determining the direction and magnitude of the electrical forces of the heart.
  • vermiform appendix — a narrow, blind tube protruding from the cecum, having no known useful function, in humans being 3 to 4 inches (8 to 10 cm) long and situated in the lower right-hand part of the abdomen.
  • video compact disc — (storage)   (VCD) A storage format used for film distribution.
  • videotape recorder — a device for recording television programs on magnetic tape for delayed transmission or for storage.
  • white-spotted hyla — a type of tree frog (H. leucophyllata) of tropical America
  • wild passionflower — the maypop, Passiflora incarnata.
  • wildlife programme — (esp on television) a documentary whose subject is wild animals in their natural habitat or undomesticated fauna and flora generally
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