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

  • ribbon development — housing or commercial buildings built along a stretch of road.
  • safety-deposit box — a lockable metal box or drawer, especially in a bank vault, used for safely storing valuable papers, jewelry, etc.
  • scissors-and-paste — designating or of a piece of writing that has been assembled from a variety of sources rather than by original research, often in a hasty or uninspired way
  • september holidays — a period of time in September when people do not have to go to school, college or work
  • shipping documents — documents relating to the sending of a shipment of goods, for example containing details of contents, weight, value etc.
  • sodium hyposulfite — sodium thiosulfate.
  • solitary sandpiper — a North American sandpiper, Tringa solitaria, of inland wetlands, having a brownish-gray, white-spotted back and whitish underparts.
  • sonic depth finder — a sonar instrument that uses echolocation to measure depths under water.
  • supraorbital ridge — browridge.
  • the encyclopedists — the writers of the French Encyclopedia (1751-72) edited by Diderot and d'Alembert, which contained the advanced ideas of the period
  • the operative word — If you describe a word as the operative word, you want to draw attention to it because you think it is important or exactly true in a particular situation.
  • to be tickled pink — If you are tickled pink, you are extremely pleased about something.
  • to pick and choose — If you pick and choose, you carefully choose only things that you really want and reject the others.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
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