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18-letter words containing an

  • 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 flash in the pan — If you describe an achievement or success as a flash in the pan, you mean that it is unlikely to be repeated and is not an indication of future achievements or success.
  • abd-er-rahman khan — 1830?–1901, amir of Afghanistan 1880–1901.
  • able-bodied seaman — an ordinary seaman, esp one in the merchant navy, who has been trained in certain skills
  • abominable snowman — a large legendary manlike or apelike creature, alleged to inhabit the Himalayan Mountains
  • abortion-on-demand — the right of a woman to have an abortion during the first six months of a pregnancy.
  • academie francaise — French Academy.
  • acadian flycatcher — a small, greenish tyrant flycatcher (Empidonax virescens) found in deciduous forests of E North America
  • acceptance testing — (programming)   Formal testing conducted to determine whether a system satisfies its acceptance criteria and thus whether the customer should accept the system.
  • accident insurance — insurance providing compensation for accidental injury or death
  • acoustic impedance — the total reaction of a medium to the transmission of sound through it, expressed as the ratio of sound pressure to particle velocity at a given point in the medium.
  • 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.
  • adjustable spanner — a tool with adjustable jaws used for turning bolts, etc
  • 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.
  • advanced waveffect — (multimedia, music, hardware)   (AWE) The kind of synthesis used by the EMU 8000 music synthesizer integrated circuit found on the SB AWE32 card.
  • advice and consent — a phrase in the Constitution (Article II, Section 2) allowing the Senate to restrain presidential powers of appointment and treaty-making.
  • aesthetic distance — a degree of detachment from or nonidentification with the characters or circumstances of a work of art, permitting the formation of judgments based on aesthetic rather than extra-aesthetic criteria.
  • african lion hound — one of a South African breed of medium-sized muscular hunting dogs having a short, glossy, red or tan coat, with a characteristic ridge of hair along the spine consisting of parallel crowns of hair growing in the opposite direction of the rest of the coat, originally developed for hunting lions but now used primarily as a guard dog.
  • african tulip tree — a tropical African evergreen tree, Spathodea campaulata, with pinnate leaves, split pods, winged seeds, and large red flowers.
  • african yellowwood — a tree, Podocarpus elongatus, of tropical Africa and the mountains of southern Africa, having globe-shaped fruit, grown as an ornamental.
  • ailanthus silkworm — a green silkworm, Samia walkeri, introduced into the U.S. from China, that feeds on the leaves of the ailanthus.
  • airman first class — the third lowest enlisted rank in the US Air Force, above airman and below senior airman
  • alexander hamiltonAlexander, 1757–1804, American statesman and writer on government: the first Secretary of the Treasury 1789–97; mortally wounded by Aaron Burr in a duel.
  • alexander i island — an island of Antarctica, west of Palmer Land, in the Bellingshausen Sea. Length: about 378 km (235 miles)
  • alpha-stannic acid — any of the series of acids usually occurring as amorphous powders and varying in composition from H 2 SnO 3 (alpha-stannic acid) to H 4 SnO 4 .
  • american brooklime — any of various speedwells found along brooks, in marshes, etc., as Veronica americana (American brooklime) a creeping plant having leafy stems and loose clusters of small blue flowers.
  • american chameleon — anole: lizards of this type (family Iguanidae) are incorrectly called “chameleons”
  • american civil war — the war in the U.S. between the North and the South, 1861–65.
  • american cockroach — a large, reddish-brown cockroach, Periplaneta americana, found originally in the southern U.S. but now widely distributed.
  • american cranberry — See under cranberry (def 1).
  • an overgrown child — an adult whose behaviour is characteristic of a child
  • analogue recording — a sound recording process in which an audio input is converted into an analogous electrical waveform
  • analytical balance — a precision balance having a sensitivity of 0.1 milligram.
  • analytical machine — Analytical Engine
  • analytical reagent — a chemical compound of a known high standard of purity
  • anaphylactic shock — a severe, sometimes fatal, reaction to a substance to which a person has an extreme sensitivity, often involving respiratory difficulty and circulation failure
  • andorre la vieille — French name for the capital of Andorra, situated in the west of the principality. Pop: 22 035 (2003 est)
  • 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.
  • angel of the north — a steel sculpture of an angel with outstretched wings, created in 1998 by British sculptor Antony Gormley, which stands on a hilltop outside Gateshead, NE England. It stands 20 m (85 ft) high and has a wingspan of 54 m (175 ft)
  • angiocardiographic — Relating to angiocardiography.
  • angiotensinogenase — (enzyme) renin.
  • angle of deviation — the angle between the direction of the refracted ray and the direction of the incident ray when a ray of light passes from one medium to another
  • angle of elevation — elevation (def 8a).
  • angle of incidence — the angle that a line or beam of radiation makes with the normal to the surface at the point of incidence
  • anglican communion — a group of Christian Churches including the Church of England, the Church of Ireland, the Episcopal Church in Scotland, the Church in Wales, and the Episcopal Church in the US, all of which are in full communion with each other
  • angular dispersion — a measure of the angular separation of light rays of different wavelength or color traversing a prism or diffraction grating, equal to the rate of change of the angle of deviation with respect to the change in wavelength.
  • anniversary dinner — a dinner held to celebrate an event that occurred in some previous year
  • ansi minimal basic — (language, standard)   ANS X3.60-1978.

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