18-letter words containing nit
- absolute magnitude — the apparent magnitude a given star would have if it were situated at a distance of 10 parsecs (32.6 light years) from the earth
- apparent magnitude — magnitude (sense 3)
- autoignition point — the minimum temperature at which a substance will undergo spontaneous combustion.
- bomb disposal unit — a unit of the police or armed services specializing in bomb disposal
- campaign furniture — furniture, as chests or desks, having metal hinges on the corners and handles on the sides.
- cognitive ethology — a branch of ethology concerned with the influence of conscious awareness and intention on the behaviour of an animal
- coiled tubing unit — A coiled tubing unit is all of the equipment needed to carry out coiled tubing drilling.
- community hospital — (in the US) a local hospital
- community language — a language spoken by members of a minority group or community within a majority language context
- community medicine — medical services for a particular area
- community policing — Community policing is a system in which policemen work only in one particular area of the community, so that everyone knows them.
- community property — the joint ownership of the property of a husband and wife
- contract furniture — furniture designed and manufactured for commercial installation, as in offices, waiting rooms, or lobbies.
- coronary care unit — a unit in a hospital dedicated to treating coronary heart disease
- coronary-care unit — a specialized hospital unit for the early care and treatment of heart-attack patients. Abbreviation: CCU.
- definitive plumage — the plumage of a bird that, once attained, does not change significantly in color or pattern for the rest of the bird's life.
- digital humanities — (used with a singular verb) the study of literature, philosophy, etc., as facilitated by computer technology or digital media: Digital humanities uses data analysis to find patterns in large bodies of text. the set of methodologies used in such scholarship.
- dwarf storage unit — (humour) (DSU) An IBM term for a cupboard.
- electrostatic unit — any unit that belongs to a system of electrical cgs units in which the electric constant is given the value of unity and is taken as a pure number
- european community — an economic and political association of European States that came into being in 1967, when the legislative and executive bodies of the European Economic Community merged with those of the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Atomic Energy Community: subsumed into the European Union in 1993
- finite-dimensional — (of a vector space) having a basis consisting of a finite number of elements.
- fuming nitric acid — a colorless, yellowish, or brownish fuming corrosive liquid, usually prepared from nitric acid by the addition of excess nitrogen dioxide: used in organic synthesis for nitration, and as an oxidizer in liquid propellants for rockets.
- genital mutilation — any type of cutting or removal of all or some of the genital organs, especially excision of the clitoris.
- golden opportunity — perfect chance
- grand penitentiary — See under penitentiary (def 3).
- heart-rate monitor — a machine that monitors or records a person's heart rate
- ignition interlock — interlock (def 10).
- in the vicinity of — near to, in the area around
- indefinite article — an article, as English a, an, that denotes class membership of the noun it modifies without particularizing it.
- indefinite pronoun — a pronoun, as English some, any, somebody, that leaves unspecified the identity of its referent.
- initial commission — Initial commission is commission that is paid to someone who sells or recommends a financial product for the first time.
- international unit — an internationally agreed upon standard, as measured by bioassay, to which samples of a substance, as a drug or hormone, are compared to ascertain their relative potency.
- locally finite set — a collection of sets in a topological space in which each point of the space has a neighborhood that intersects a finite number of sets of the collection.
- lunitidal interval — the period of time between the moon's transit and the next high lunar tide.
- magnetic tape unit — a computer device that moves reels of magnetic tape past read-write heads so that data can be transferred to or from the computer
- market opportunity — a situation in which a company can meet an unsatisfied customer need before its competitors
- maternity hospital — birthing facility
- microcrystallinity — The condition of being microcrystalline.
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- mobile police unit — a motorized police unit
- nitrogen tetroxide — a poisonous compound, N 2 O 4 , occurring as a colorless, water-soluble solid or liquid, dissociating into NO 2 : used chiefly as an oxidizer, especially in rocket fuels, as a nitrating agent, and as an intermediate in the manufacture of nitric acid.
- objective genitive — a use of the genitive case to express an objective relationship, as in Latin timor mortis (fear of death)
- order of magnitude — You can use order of magnitude when you are giving an approximate idea of the amount or importance of something.
- pilotless ignition — a system for igniting a gas burner, as in a gas range, furnace, or boiler, without the use of a pilot light.
- 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.
- speech recognition — Computers. the computerized analysis of spoken words in order to identify the speaker, as in security systems, or to respond to voiced commands: the analysis is performed by finding patterns in the spectrum of the incoming sound and comparing them with stored patterns of elements of sound, as phones, or of complete words.
- standard amenities — the sanitary facilities recommended for all dwellings by the housing law: a fixed bath or shower, wash-hand basin, and sink, all supplied with hot and cold water, and a flush toilet
- transfinite number — an infinite cardinal or ordinal number.
- unit magnetic pole — the unit of magnetic pole strength equal to the strength of a magnetic pole that repels a similar pole with a force of one dyne, the two poles being placed in a vacuum and separated by a distance of one centimeter.
- unit-linked policy — a life-assurance policy, the investment benefits of which are directly in proportion to the number of units in a unit trust purchased on the policyholder's behalf
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