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18-letter words containing et

  • not a pretty sight — If you say that someone or something is not a pretty sight, you mean that it is not pleasant to look at.
  • off-street parking — spaces for cars located on private property rather than on a public street
  • offset lithography — offset (def 6).
  • on a sticky wicket — in an awkward situation
  • once in a lifetime — extremely rarely
  • overinterpretation — the act of interpreting; elucidation; explication: This writer's work demands interpretation.
  • packet switch node — (PSN) A dedicated computer whose purpose is to accept, route and forward packets in a packet-switched network.
  • paraurethral gland — any of a group of vestigial glands located in the posterior wall of the urethra in women.
  • partial-vegetarian — a person who eats mostly plant foods, dairy products, and eggs, and occasionally chicken, fish, and red meat.
  • peasant proprietor — a peasant who owns land, especially the land he or she tills.
  • 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.
  • peter and the wolf — a composition by Sergei Prokofiev written in 1936. It is a children's story with both music and text, spoken by a narrator accompanied by the orchestra
  • peter tschaikowsky — Peter Ilyich [il-yich] /ˈɪl yɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich.
  • peters' projection — a form of modified world map projection that attempts to reflect accurately the relative surface areas of landmasses, an approach which gives greater prominence (than do standard representations) to equatorial countries
  • petite bourgeoisie — the portion of the bourgeoisie having the least wealth and lowest social status; the lower middle class.
  • petroleum engineer — A petroleum engineer is an engineer who is involved in most stages of oil and gas field evaluation, development, and production, whose job is to maximize hydrocarbon recovery and reduce costs and environmental impact.
  • phenylacetaldehyde — a colorless, oily, water-insoluble liquid, C 3 H 1 4 O, having a hyacinthlike odor: used chiefly in perfumery.
  • plane trigonometry — the branch of trigonometry dealing with plane triangles.
  • point d'angleterre — a bobbin lace in which the design is worked out with either a needle or bobbin.
  • point of no return — Aviation. the point in a flight at which an aircraft will lack sufficient fuel to return to its starting point.
  • point set topology — topology (def 2).
  • policeman's helmet — a Himalayan balsaminaceous plant, Impatiens glandulifera, with large purplish-pink flowers, introduced into Britain
  • pressure altimeter — an aneroid barometer adapted for measuring altitude by converting the indicated atmospheric pressure to altitude according to a standard relationship.
  • prism spectrometer — an optical device for measuring wavelengths, deviation of refracted rays, and angles between faces of a prism, especially an instrument (prism spectrometer) consisting of a slit through which light passes, a collimator, a prism that deviates the light, and a telescope through which the deviated light is viewed and examined.
  • prometheus unbound — a drama in verse (1820) by Shelley.
  • proprietary colony — any of certain colonies, as Maryland and Pennsylvania, that were granted to an individual or group by the British crown and that were granted full rights of self-government.
  • proprietary rights — rights of ownership
  • provincetown print — a print made from a woodblock incised with grooves that serve to separate the colors being used and to leave white lines highlighting the design.
  • pseudo-competitive — of, pertaining to, involving, or decided by competition: competitive sports; a competitive examination.
  • psychogalvanometer — a type of galvanometer for detecting and measuring psychogalvanic currents.
  • put heads together — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • quasi-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
  • radiometric dating — any method of determining the age of earth materials or objects of organic origin based on measurement of either short-lived radioactive elements or the amount of a long-lived radioactive element plus its decay product.
  • remanent magnetism — magnetization in minerals induced by a former magnetic field and persisting after the field changes.
  • residual magnetism — remanence.
  • retail price index — The retail price index is a list of the prices of typical goods which shows how much the cost of living changes from one month to the next.
  • retirement benefit — a payment made to a retired person
  • retirement pension — income: no longer at work
  • retrograde amnesia — a memory disorder characterized by an inability to remember events or experiences that occurred before a significant point in time.
  • return to the fold — come back home
  • return-flue boiler — a fire-tube boiler having flues that collect the combustion gases at the end of the boiler opposite the fire door and pass them through the boiler to an uptake above the fire door.
  • runge-kutta method — a numerical method, involving successive approximations, used to solve differential equations.
  • safety regulations — regulations or rules that are put in place to ensure a product, event, etc, is safe and not dangerous
  • safety-deposit box — a lockable metal box or drawer, especially in a bank vault, used for safely storing valuable papers, jewelry, etc.
  • saint peter's fish — another name for tilapia, taken from a Bible story about Saint Peter catching a fish with a coin in its mouth
  • sao caetano do sul — a city in SE Brazil, SE of São Paulo.
  • scottish secretary — the Secretary of State for Scotland, head of the Scotland Office, a UK government department with responsibility for some Scottish affairs
  • secretarial agency — a recruiting business which deals with jobs for secretaries
  • secretary of state — the head and chief administrator of the U.S. Department of State. Compare foreign minister.
  • self-determination — determination by oneself or itself, without outside influence.
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