18-letter words containing s, a, d, o

medical profession — the body of people who work as doctors of medicine
metabolic syndrome — Pathology. a group of medical conditions present simultaneously in a patient, as high blood pressure, low HDL cholesterol levels, and an excess of abdominal fat, that increases a person's risk of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. Also called insulin resistance syndrome.
midstream operator — A midstream operator is a company that gathers, transports, and processes natural gas or oil.
mineralocorticoids — Plural form of mineralocorticoid.
misplaced modifier — Grammar. a word, phrase, or clause that seems to refer to or modify an unintended word because of its placement in a sentence, as when young in When young, circuses appeal to all of us.
misunderestimation — (nonstandard) An inaccurate underestimation, or an act of misunderestimating.
mobile data system — a system consisting of a client computer requesting information and a server supplying this information
mohammed ibn-kasim — flourished early 8th century a.d, Muslim conqueror of the Sind region in India.
monophosphorylated — (biochemistry) phosphorylated with a single unit of phosphoric acid.
movers and shakers — a person or thing that moves.
mucopolysaccharide — (formerly) glycosaminoglycan.
muscular dystrophy — a hereditary disease characterized by gradual wasting of the muscles with replacement by scar tissue and fat, sometimes also affecting the heart.
mutual aid society — A mutual aid society is an organization that provides benefits or other help to its members when they are affected by things such as death, sickness, disability, old age, or unemployment.
national guardsman — guardsman (def 2).
neuropsychodynamic — Of or pertaining to neuropsychodynamics.
new forest disease — an infectious eye disease causing acute eye pain in cattle
nominative-address — a noun naming the person to whom one is speaking.
non-discriminative — constituting a particular quality, trait, or difference; characteristic; notable.
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.
non-understandable — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
nonstriated muscle — smooth muscle
nord-pas-de-calais — a region of N France, on the Straits of Dover (the Pas de Calais): coal-mining, textile, and metallurgical industries
normally aspirated — A normally aspirated or naturally aspirated engine breathes air at atmospheric pressure.
northeast corridor — the long, narrow strip of land between Boston, New York City, and Washington, D.C., containing many adjacent urban areas.
notifiable disease — any one of a number of infectious diseases of humans and animals, that must be reported to the public health authorities
nueva san salvador — Santa Tecla.
objective idealism — a form of idealism asserting that the act of experiencing has a reality combining and transcending the natures of the object experienced and of the mind of the observer.
oedipus at colonus — a tragedy by Sophocles, written toward the end of his life and produced posthumously in 401? b.c.
office of readings — the first of the canonical hours; matins
old man of the sea — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments) an old man who clung to the shoulders of Sindbad the Sailor for many days and nights.
on one's beam-ends — out of resources; destitute
on the danger list — critically ill in hospital
one false move and — You use one false move to introduce the very bad or serious consequences which will result if someone makes a mistake, even a very small one.
one's heart bleeds — used to express sympathetic grief, but often used ironically
open pandora's box — If someone or something opens Pandora's box or opens a Pandora's box, they do something that causes a lot of problems to appear that did not exist or were not known about before.
optical disc drive — optical disk drive
optical disk drive — (hardware) (Or "optical disc drive", "optical storage") A generic term for any device that reads and/or writes optical media, i.e. compact discs, DVDs and/or Blu-ray discs or future media that uses light (from a small laser) to read data off a removable, rotating disk. At least one such drive is commonly installed in most personal computers to allow them to play and/or record audio and video media and load and store data such as program installers. The floppy disk has been replaced by optical media due to its vastly greater capacity, e.g. 50,000 megabytes for a dual-layer blu-ray disc compared with 1.5 megabytes for a floppy (over 30,000 times as much).
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
organic solidarity — social cohesiveness that is based on division of labor and interdependence and is characteristic of complex, industrial societies.
orthotungstic acid — an oxyacid acid of tungsten. Formula: H2WO4
osteitis deformans — Paget's disease.
osteoradionecrosis — bone tissue death induced by radiation.
out of one's hands — no longer one's responsibility
overdraft interest — interest charged on money withdrawn in excess of the credit balance of a bank or building society account
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.
packet switch node — (PSN) A dedicated computer whose purpose is to accept, route and forward packets in a packet-switched network.
parathyroid glands — any of several small oval glands usually lying near or embedded in the thyroid gland.
pass the hat round — to collect money, as for a cause
passing modulation — a modulation of a temporary nature.

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