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18-letter words containing o, r, a, i, u

  • inquisitor-general — the head of the Spanish court of Inquisition
  • instruction manual — how-to, usage guide
  • instrument station — station (def 14a).
  • intercartilaginous — (anatomy) Within cartilage.
  • intercommunication — to communicate mutually, as people.
  • interinstitutional — Between institutions.
  • international unit — an internationally agreed upon standard, as measured by bioassay, to which samples of a substance, as a drug or hormone, are compared to ascertain their relative potency.
  • involuntary muscle — muscle: contracts involuntarily
  • iron (ii) sulphate — an iron salt with a saline taste, usually obtained as greenish crystals of the heptahydrate, which are converted to the white monohydrate above 100°C: used in inks, tanning, water purification, and in the treatment of anaemia. Formula: FeSO4
  • iverson's language — APL, which went unnamed for many years.
  • junior heavyweight — a boxer weighing up to 190 pounds (85.5 kg), between light heavyweight and heavyweight.
  • keep your hair on! — keep calm
  • king's regulations — (in Britain and the Commonwealth when the sovereign is male) the code of conduct for members of the armed forces that deals with discipline, aspects of military law, etc
  • kura kaupapa māori — a primary school where teaching is based on Māori language and culture
  • last in, first out — The expression last in, first out is used to say that the last person who started work in an organization should be the first person to leave it, if fewer people are needed.
  • last-in, first-out — an inventory plan based on the assumption that materials constituting manufacturing costs should be carried on the books at the market price of the last lot received. Abbreviation: LIFO. Compare first-in, first-out.
  • launching ceremony — a ceremony that celebrates the launch of a ship for the first time into the water
  • lenticular process — a method for producing images with a three-dimensional effect by photographing on lenticulated film.
  • like a house afire — a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
  • liqueur chocolates — chocolates containing liqueur
  • literae humaniores — (at Oxford University) the faculty concerned with Greek and Latin literature, ancient history, and philosophy; classics
  • logarithmus dualis — (mathematics)   (ld) Latin for logarithm base two. More commonly written as "log" with a subscript "2". Roughly the number of bits required to represent an integer.
  • louisiana purchase — a treaty signed with France in 1803 by which the U.S. purchased for $15,000,000 the land extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
  • magistrate's court — a court having limited jurisdiction over minor civil and criminal matters, as matters of contract not exceeding a particular amount of money.
  • magistrates' court — law: handles minor crimes
  • magnesium peroxide — a white, tasteless, water-insoluble powder, MgO 2 , used as an antiseptic and as an oxidizing and bleaching agent.
  • major tranquilizer — antipsychotic (def 2).
  • market opportunity — a situation in which a company can meet an unsatisfied customer need before its competitors
  • marriage encounter — a meeting with a person or thing, especially a casual, unexpected, or brief meeting: Our running into each other was merely a chance encounter.
  • marsilius of padua — c1280–1343? Italian scholar and political theorist.
  • mergui archipelago — a group of over 200 islands in the Andaman Sea, off the Tenasserim coast of S Myanmar: mountainous and forested
  • microencapsulation — the process of enclosing chemical substances in microcapsules.
  • microminiaturizing — Present participle of microminiaturize.
  • microwave spectrum — a spectrum of electromagnetic radiations whose wavelengths fall in the microwave range.
  • minor tranquilizer — antianxiety drug.
  • misunderestimation — (nonstandard) An inaccurate underestimation, or an act of misunderestimating.
  • modular arithmetic — arithmetic in which numbers that are congruent modulo a given number are treated as the same. Compare congruence (def 2), modulo, modulus (def 2b).
  • molecular genetics — a subdivision of genetics concerned with the structure and function of genes at the molecular level.
  • molecular medicine — the study of disease or injury at the molecular or cellular level.
  • mordovian republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga basin. Capital: Saransk. Pop: 888 700 (2002). Area: 26 200 sq km (10 110 sq miles)
  • mortgage insurance — policy to compensate for property loan payments
  • mountain cranberry — cowberry
  • mucopolysaccharide — (formerly) glycosaminoglycan.
  • music to your ears — If something that you hear is music to your ears, it makes you feel very happy.
  • national guardsman — guardsman (def 2).
  • national insurance — In Britain, national insurance is the state system of paying money to people who are ill, unemployed, or retired. It is financed by money that the government collects from people who work, or from their employers.
  • natural convection — Natural convection is the loss of heat from a hot solid or liquid into air which is not artificially agitated.
  • natural philosophy — natural science.
  • nebular hypothesis — the theory that the solar system evolved from a mass of nebular matter: prominent in the 19th century following its precise formulation by Laplace.
  • neovascularization — the development of new blood vessels, especially in tissues where circulation has been impaired by trauma or disease.
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