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18-letter words containing le

  • currency principle — the principle that banks should be permitted to issue notes only against bullion or coin.
  • cycle of indiction — indiction (def 3).
  • cycle-of-indiction — a proclamation made every 15 years in the later Roman Empire, fixing the valuation of property to be used as a basis for taxation.
  • cyclic pitch lever — a lever in a helicopter to change the angle of attack of individual rotor blades, causing the helicopter to move forwards, backwards, or sideways
  • daytime television — television broadcasts that are shown during the daytime rather than in the evening
  • dead-letter office — an office where undeliverable letters were taken for storage
  • dear john (letter) — a letter from one's fiancée or girlfriend breaking off an engagement or love affair, or from one's wife asking for a divorce
  • death-valley curve — a curve on a graph showing how the capital of a new company plotted against time declines sharply as the venture capital is used up before income reaches predicted levels
  • dependent variable — a variable in a mathematical equation or statement whose value depends on that taken on by the independent variable
  • dialytic telescope — a type of achromatic telescope with a second correcting lens
  • diamondback turtle — any edible North American terrapin of the genus Malaclemys, esp M. terrapin, occurring in brackish and tidal waters and having diamond-shaped markings on the shell: family Emydidae
  • didaskaleinophobia — The fear of going to school.
  • dielectric heating — the heating of a nonconducting substance caused by dielectric loss when the material is placed in a variable electric field.
  • dietary supplement — a substance taken in addition to what you eat in order to promote health
  • digital television — a television broadcasting technology in which signals are transmitted as a sequence of binary numbers.
  • diplomatic shuttle — a series of diplomatic visits to other states made by an official, such as an ambassador or envoy
  • dispersible tablet — A dispersible tablet is a tablet that disintegrates in water or other liquid.
  • domremy-la-pucelle — a village in Lorraine, NE France, SW of Nancy: birthplace of Joan of Arc.
  • double achievement — a representation of the arms of a husband beside those of his wife such that a difference of rank between them is shown.
  • double white lines — parallel white lines on a roadway, usually indicating a barrier to crossing
  • double-edged sword — sth that can be both positive and negative
  • double-ended queue — (algorithm)   /dek/ (deque) A queue which can have items added or removed from either end[?]. The Knuth reference below reports that the name was coined by E. J. Schweppe.
  • double-page spread — two pages treated as one in a publication, with images or text extending across the binding
  • dressing table set — a set including a hairbrush, mirror and comb, often with silver backs
  • dried-fruit beetle — a small beetle, Carpophilus hemipterus, of worldwide distribution, that infests ripe, dried, and fermenting fruits, especially figs and dates.
  • dry-powder inhaler — A dry-powder inhaler is a device that delivers medication to the lungs in the form of a dry powder.
  • eclipsing variable — a variable star whose changes in brightness are caused by periodic eclipses of two stars in a binary system.
  • economies of scale — Economies of scale are the financial advantages that a company gains when it produces large quantities of products.
  • eighty-twenty rule — (programming)   The program-design version of the law of diminishing returns. The 80/20 rule says that roughly 80% of the problem can be solved with 20% of the effort that it would take to solve the whole problem. For example, parsing e-mail addresses in "From:" lines in e-mail messages is notoriously difficult if you follow the RFC 2822 specification. However, about 60% of actual "From:" lines are in the format "From: Their Name <[email protected]>", with a far more constrained idea of what can be in "user" or "host" than in RFC 2822. Another 25% just add double-quotes around "Their Name". Matching just those two patterns would thus cover 85% of "From:" lines, with a tiny portion of the code required to fully implement RFC2822. (Adding support for "From: [email protected]" and "From: [email protected] (Their Name) " brings coverage to almost 100%, leaving only really baroque things that RFC-2822 permits, like "From: Pete(A wonderful \) chap)
  • eleanor of castile — 1246–90, Spanish wife of Edward I of England. Eleanor Crosses were erected at each place at which her body rested between Nottingham, where she died, and London, where she is buried
  • electoral district — an area that is considered as unit for the purposes of an election
  • electoral register — An electoral register is an official list of all the people who have the right to vote in an election.
  • electric discharge — electricity emitted
  • electric potential — the work required to transfer a unit positive electric charge from an infinite distance to a given point against an electric field
  • electrical circuit — An electrical circuit is a complete route that an electric current can flow around.
  • electrical failure — an instance when an electricity supply stops working
  • electricity strike — a time when workers at an electricity company stop supplying power as a protest at working conditions
  • electroacupuncture — the insertion into the body of one or more needles through which an electric current is passed
  • electrocardiograms — Plural form of electrocardiogram.
  • electrocardiograph — A machine used for electrocardiography.
  • electrocorticogram — a record of brain waves obtained by placing electrodes directly on the surface of the exposed cerebral cortex
  • electrocyclization — (organic chemistry) an electrocyclic reaction.
  • electrodesiccation — The drying of tissue, and the prevention of bleeding, using a high-frequency electric current.
  • electrodynamometer — An instrument that measures electric current by indicating the strength of repulsion or attraction between the magnetic fields of two sets of coils, one fixed and one movable.
  • electroluminescent — Having the quality of electroluminescence.
  • electron telescope — an astronomical telescope with an attachment for converting the infrared radiation emitted from the surface of planets into a visible image
  • electron transport — the metabolic process in mitochondria or chloroplasts, in which electrons are transferred in stages from energy-rich compounds to molecular oxygen with liberation of energy
  • electronic banking — the transfer of money between financial institutions through an exchange of electronic signals over a network
  • electronic editing — editing of a sound or vision tape recording by electronic rerecording rather than by physical cutting
  • electronic mailbox — a device used to store electronic mail
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