18-letter words containing u, n, d, l, a

informatory double — a double intended to inform one's partner that one has a strong hand and to urge a bid regardless of the strength of his or her hand.
instrument landing — an aircraft landing accomplished by use of gauges on the instrument panel and ground-based radio equipment, with limited reference to outside visual signals.
jerusalem syndrome — a delusive condition affecting some visitors to Jerusalem in which the sufferer identifies with a major figure from his or her religious background
juan ponce de leon — Juan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), c1460–1521, Spanish explorer.
laugh like a drain — to laugh loudly and coarsely
lay down your arms — If soldiers lay down their arms, they stop fighting and give up their weapons.
little namaqualand — an arid coastal region in the S part of Namibia, extending into the Cape of Good Hope province of the Republic of South Africa, divided by the Orange River into two regions, one in Namibia (Great Namaqualand) the other in South Africa (Little Namaqualand) inhabited by the Nama.
lunitidal interval — the period of time between the moon's transit and the next high lunar tide.
malicious wounding — the intentional violent wounding or injuring of someone
mercury delay line — (storage, history) An archaic first-in first-out fixed time period data storage device using acoustic transducers to transmit data as waves in a trough or tube of mercury. EDSAC (Cambridge) and UNIVAC I used delay lines.
modelling language — (language) Possibly a kind of programming language designed for describing models and their behaviour. See also data modelling, object relational model, simulation, UML, VRML.
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)
mozilla foundation — (body, web, open source) The body set up by Netscape in January 1998 to coordinate development of the Mozilla browser and to provide a point of contact.
multimedia machine — machines that allow users to control and manipulate sound, video, text and graphics
national guardsman — guardsman (def 2).
natural childbirth — childbirth involving little or no use of drugs or anesthesia and usually involving a program in which the mother is psychologically and physically prepared for the birth process.
netherlands guiana — a former name of Suriname.
neural tube defect — any of a group of congenital abnormalities involving the brain and spinal cord, including spina bifida and meningocele, caused by failure of the neural tube to close properly during embryonic development.
neurodevelopmental — Of or pertaining to the development of neurological pathways in the brain.
non-contextualized — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
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
norwegian elkhound — one of a breed of dogs having a short, compact body, short, pointed ears, and a thick, gray coat, raised originally in Norway for hunting elk and other game.
nueva san salvador — Santa Tecla.
numerical identity — the relation that holds between two relata when they are the selfsame entity, that is, when the terms designating them have the same reference
oedipus at colonus — a tragedy by Sophocles, written toward the end of his life and produced posthumously in 401? b.c.
on delicate ground — in a situation requiring tact
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.
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.
parallel reduction — A form of applicative order reduction in which all redexes in an expression are reduced simultaneously. Variants include parallel outermost reduction and lenient reduction. See normal order reduction.
paraurethral gland — any of a group of vestigial glands located in the posterior wall of the urethra in women.
passing modulation — a modulation of a temporary nature.
pennsylvania dutch — the descendants of 17th- and 18th-century settlers in Pennsylvania from southwest Germany and Switzerland.
perceptual defence — the process by which it is thought that certain stimuli are either not perceived or are distorted due to their offensive, unpleasant, or threatening nature
perpetual calendar — a calendar devised to be used for many years, as in determining the day of the week on which a given date falls.
personal bodyguard — a person employed to protect a particular person
physical education — systematic instruction in sports, exercises, and hygiene given as part of a school or college program.
play cat and mouse — Also called cat and rat. a children's game in which players in a circle keep a player from moving into or out of the circle and permit a second player to move into or out of the circle to escape the pursuing first player.
plenary indulgence — a remission of the total temporal punishment that is still due to sin after absolution. Compare indulgence (def 6).
population density — ratio: inhabitants to area
population pyramid — a graph showing the distribution of a population by sex, age, etc.
pour cold water on — If someone pours cold water on a plan or idea, they criticize it so much that people lose their enthusiasm for it.
presidential suite — a suite of rooms, as in a hotel, suitable for a president or other head of state.
protocol data unit — (PDU) A packet of data passed across a network. The term implies a specific layer of the OSI seven layer model and a specific protocol.
pseudointellectual — a person exhibiting intellectual pretensions that have no basis in sound scholarship.
pull one's head in — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
put a bold face on — to seem bold or confident about
quartz-iodine lamp — a type of tungsten-halogen lamp containing small amounts of iodine and having a quartz envelope, operating at high temperature and producing an intense light for use in car headlamps, etc

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