18-letter words containing t, a, n, d, r
- a bird in the hand — A bird in the hand is something that you already have and do not want to risk losing by trying to get something else.
- a foot in the door — an action, appointment, etc, that provides an initial step towards a desired goal, esp one that is not easily attainable
- a leap in the dark — an action performed without knowledge of the consequences
- a shot in the dark — If you describe something someone says or does as a shot in the dark or a stab in the dark, you mean they are guessing that what they say is correct or that what they do will be successful.
- abortion-on-demand — the right of a woman to have an abortion during the first six months of a pregnancy.
- acadian flycatcher — a small, greenish tyrant flycatcher (Empidonax virescens) found in deciduous forests of E North America
- accident insurance — insurance providing compensation for accidental injury or death
- accident proneness — the unconscious tendency, thought to exist in some people, to involve themselves in a large number of accidents
- accommodation road — a road that serves residential properties or a piece of land but which is not considered a public highway
- according to hoyle — according to the rules and regulations; in the prescribed, fair, or correct way
- accretionary wedge — a body of deformed sediments, wedge-shaped in two dimensions or prism-shaped in three dimensions, that has been scraped off the surface of the oceanic lithosphere as it moves downwards beneath a continent or island arc. The sediments are added to the continental edge
- acid precipitation — meteorological precipitation that is relatively acidic.
- acupuncture needle — a very fine needle with a rounded tip, used in acupuncture
- adaptive answering — (communications) A feature which allows a faxmodem to answer the telephone and decide whether the incoming call is a fax or data call. Most Class 1 faxmodems do this. The U.S. Robotics Class 1 implementation however seems not to do it, it must be set to answer as either one or the other.
- adaptive radiation — evolution of a number of divergent species from a common ancestor, each species becoming adapted to occupy a different environment. This type of evolution occurred in the Tertiary manuals and the Mesozoic reptiles
- address resolution — (networking) Conversion of an Internet address into the corresponding physical address (Ethernet address). This is usually done using Address Resolution Protocol. The resolver is a library routine and a set of processes which converts hostnames into Internet addresses, though this process in not usually referred to as resolution. See DNS.
- adenocarcinomatous — Of or pertaining to adenocarcinomas.
- adjournment debate — (in the UK) a short debate, held immediately before the end of each day's business in the House of Commons, in which backbench MPs raise matters relating to their constituencies
- adjustable spanner — a tool with adjustable jaws used for turning bolts, etc
- administered price — a price determined by a seller's pricing policy and not by market forces, supply and demand, etc
- administrative law — law relating to the control of government power
- admirable crichton — a comedy (1902) by Sir James M. Barrie.
- adobe type manager — (text, tool, product) (ATM) Software that produces PostScript outline fonts on screen and paper. There are versions that run under Microsoft Windows and on the Macintosh. ATM can do hinting, multiple master and anti-aliasing.
- advertising agency — An advertising agency is a company whose business is to create advertisements for other companies or organizations.
- aerothermodynamics — the study of the exchange of heat between solids and gases, esp of the heating effect on aircraft flying through the air at very high speeds
- after-dinner drink — a drink such as port and brandy taken after dinner
- age discrimination — discrimination against older people, especially by employers
- agro-industrialize — to industrialize the agriculture of: to agro-industrialize a developing nation.
- air national guard — a national guard organization similar to and coordinate with the U.S. Air Force.
- airspeed indicator — a dial that indicates the airspeed at which an aircraft is travelling
- albrecht waldstein — Albrecht von [German ahl-brekht fuh n] /German ˈɑl brɛxt fən/ (Show IPA), Wallenstein, Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von.
- alexander hamilton — Alexander, 1757–1804, American statesman and writer on government: the first Secretary of the Treasury 1789–97; mortally wounded by Aaron Burr in a duel.
- alternative comedy — a style of comedy originating in the UK in the 1980s that seeks to avoid racist or sexist stereotypes, and usually puts forward left-wing, anti-establishment views
- alumina trihydrate — a crystalline, water-insoluble powder, Al(OH) 3 or Al 2 O 3 ⋅3H 2 O, obtained chiefly from bauxite: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, and printing inks, in dyeing, and in medicine as an antacid and in the treatment of ulcers.
- amdahl corporation — (company) A US computer manufacturer. Amdahl is a major supplier of large mainframes, UNIX and Open Systems software and servers, data storage subsystems, data communications products, applications development software, and a variety of educational and consulting services. Amdahl products are sold in more than 30 countries for use in both open systems and IBM plug-compatible mainframe computing environments. Quarterly sales $397M, profits $13M (Aug 1994). In 1997 Amdahl became a division of Fujitsu.
- andrew file system — (operating system, storage) (AFS) The distributed file system of the Andrew Project, adopted by the OSF as part of their Distributed Computing Environment.
- anticipated profit — the profit that one expects to make from a deal, transaction, or project
- antidiscrimination — (legal) Opposing or disallowing discrimination.
- antiprostaglandins — Plural form of antiprostaglandin.
- antiscorbutic acid — vitamin C
- apartment building — An apartment building or apartment house is a tall building which contains different apartments on different floors.
- apparent magnitude — magnitude (sense 3)
- apparent solar day — the period of time between two successive passages of the sun's center across the same meridian.
- armed intervention — an official response to a situation which involves the armed forces
- arrest of judgment — a stay of proceedings after a verdict, on the grounds of error or possible error
- arsenic trisulfide — a yellow or red crystalline substance, As 2 S 3 , occurring in nature as the mineral orpiment, and used as a pigment (king's yellow) and in pyrotechnics.
- as near as damn it — as near as possible; very near
- at sb's right hand — If someone is at a person's right hand, they work closely with that person so they can help and advise them.
- at/from a distance — If you are at a distance from something, or if you see it or remember it from a distance, you are a long way away from it in space or time.
- atmospheric window — wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum that can be transmitted through the earth's atmosphere. Atmospheric windows occur in the visible, infrared, and radio regions of the spectrum
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