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18-letter words containing t, s, r, a

  • (go) off the rails — (to go) off the proper course
  • (in) the worst way — very much; greatly
  • a farewell to arms — a novel (1929) by Ernest Hemingway.
  • a pain in the arse — In informal English, if you call someone or something a pain or a pain in the neck, you mean that they are very annoying or irritating. Expressions such as a pain in the arse and a pain in the backside in British English, or a pain in the ass and a pain in the butt in American English, are also used, but most people consider them offensive.
  • 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.
  • aarp probe packets — (networking)   AARP packets sent out on a nonextended AppleTalk network to discover whether a randomly selected node ID is being used by any node. If not, the sending node uses the node ID. If so, it chooses a different ID and sends more AARP probe packets.
  • absolute threshold — the minimum intensity of a stimulus at which it can just be perceived
  • absorption costing — a method of cost accounting in which overheads are apportioned to cost centres, where they are absorbed using predetermined rates
  • abstract data type — (programming)   (ADT) A kind of data abstraction where a type's internal form is hidden behind a set of access functions. Values of the type are created and inspected only by calls to the access functions. This allows the implementation of the type to be changed without requiring any changes outside the module in which it is defined. A classic example of an ADT is a stack data type for which functions might be provided to create an empty stack, to push values onto a stack and to pop values from a stack.
  • 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
  • acoustic inertance — inertance.
  • acoustic reactance — acoustic impedance caused by the inertia and elasticity of the transmitting medium.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • advertising agency — An advertising agency is a company whose business is to create advertisements for other companies or organizations.
  • aerial perspective — a means of indicating relative distance in terms of a gradation of clarity, tone, and colour, esp blue
  • 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
  • affective disorder — any mental disorder, such as depression or mania, that is characterized by abnormal disturbances of mood
  • age discrimination — discrimination against older people, especially by employers
  • aggravated assault — an offence in which a person attacks someone physically, made more serious by its violent circumstances
  • agro-industrialize — to industrialize the agriculture of: to agro-industrialize a developing nation.
  • aids-related virus — a variant of the AIDS virus. Abbreviation: ARV.
  • ailanthus silkworm — a green silkworm, Samia walkeri, introduced into the U.S. from China, that feeds on the leaves of the ailanthus.
  • air-to-air missile — a missile fired from an aircraft that targets other aircraft in flight
  • air-to-sea missile — a missile fired from an aircraft that has a target on the sea
  • airman first class — the third lowest enlisted rank in the US Air Force, above airman and below senior airman
  • airspeed indicator — a dial that indicates the airspeed at which an aircraft is travelling
  • albert bruce sabinAlbert Bruce, 1906–93, U.S. physician, born in Poland: developed Sabin vaccine.
  • albrecht waldstein — Albrecht von [German ahl-brekht fuh n] /German ˈɑl brɛxt fən/ (Show IPA), Wallenstein, Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von.
  • alphaphotographics — A display made up of text characters combined with high-resolution photographic images (proposed as a future form of videotex).
  • alternate straight — a hand consisting of five cards following one another by two in order of denomination, as a five, seven, nine, jack, and king, being of special value in certain games.
  • alternating series — a series, usually infinite, in which successive terms have opposite signs, as 1 − ½ + ¼ − ⅛ +. ….
  • alternative school — any public or private school having a special curriculum, especially an elementary or secondary school offering a more flexible program of study than a traditional school.
  • 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.
  • anthropomorphising — Present participle of anthropomorphise.
  • anthropomorphously — In an anthropomorphous manner; in a manner resembling that of a human.
  • anti-commercialism — the principles, practices, and spirit of commerce.
  • anti-masonic party — a former political party (1826–35) that opposed Freemasonry in civil affairs.
  • anticholinesterase — any of a group of substances that inhibit the action of cholinesterase
  • antidiscrimination — (legal) Opposing or disallowing discrimination.
  • antiferromagnetism — the phenomenon exhibited by substances that resemble paramagnetic substances in the value of their relative permeability but that behave like ferromagnetic substances when their temperature is varied
  • antiprostaglandins — Plural form of antiprostaglandin.
  • antiscorbutic acid — vitamin C
  • antisegregationist — opposed to the segregation of different races in any human activity
  • antivirus software — (tool)   Programs to detect and remove computer viruses. The simplest kind scans executable files and boot blocks for a list of known viruses. Others are constantly active, attempting to detect the actions of general classes of viruses. antivirus software should always include a regular update service allowing it to keep up with the latest viruses as they are released.

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