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18-letter words containing ta

  • isolation hospital — a hospital used to isolate or quarantine people with a contagious disease
  • italian corn salad — a southern European plant, Valerianella eriocarpa, of the valerian family, having edible, spoon-shaped, hairy leaves and dense clusters of pale-blue flowers.
  • italian provincial — designating or of a style of rural, Italian furniture of the 18th and 19th cent., with straight lines and simple decoration, usually of fruitwood or mahogany
  • italian somaliland — a former Italian colony and trust territory in E Africa: now part of the Democratic Somali Republic.
  • joint consultation — a formal system of communication between the management of an organization and the employees' representatives used prior to taking decisions affecting the workforce, usually effected through a joint consultative committee
  • keep at a distance — to be reserved or cool toward; treat aloofly
  • known lazy bastard — (abuse)   (KLB) A term, used among technical support staff, for a user who repeatedly asks for help with problems whose solutions are clearly explained in the documentation, and persists in doing so after having been told to RTFM. KLBs are singled out for special treatment (i.e. ridicule), especially if they have been heard to say "It's so boring to read the manual! Why don't you just tell me?". The deepest pit in Hell is reserved for KLBs whose questions reveal total ignorance of the basic concepts (e.g., "How do I make a font in Excel?", "Where do I turn on my RAM?"), and who refuse to accept that their questions are neither simple nor well-formed.
  • lateral resistance — resistance to sidewise motion caused by wind pressure, supplied by the immersed portion of a hull of a vessel.
  • law of gravitation — a law stating that any two masses attract each other with a force equal to a constant (constant of gravitation) multiplied by the product of the two masses and divided by the square of the distance between them.
  • limit-state design — a design criterion specifying that with acceptable probabilities a structure will not reach a limit state in which it either is unfit for the use for which it was designed (unavailability limit state) or fails (ultimate limit state)
  • long-distance call — phone call: not local area
  • long-stay car park — a car park (eg at an airport) where cars can be left for a long time
  • low-start mortgage — a mortgage in which interest only is repaid for a fixed period at the outset, to make it more affordable
  • luminous emittance — luminous flux emitted per unit area.
  • 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
  • magnetocrystalline — (physics) Describing the interaction between the magnetization and the crystal structure of a material.
  • manhattan district — (during World War II) the code name for a unit of US army engineers established in 1942 to construct secret sites for the development of the atomic bomb
  • maternity hospital — birthing facility
  • mental health care — services devoted to the treatment of mental illnesses and the improvement of mental health in people with mental disorders or problems
  • mental reservation — an unexpressed doubt or qualification about a situation, person, etc.
  • mental retardation — Usually Offensive. a developmental disorder characterized in varying degrees by a subnormal ability to learn, a substantially low IQ, and impaired social adjustment.
  • metabolic syndrome — Pathology. a group of medical conditions present simultaneously in a patient, as high blood pressure, low HDL cholesterol levels, and an excess of abdominal fat, that increases a person's risk of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. Also called insulin resistance syndrome.
  • metacentric height — the distance between the center of gravity and the metacenter of a floating body, as of a vessel.
  • metamorphic facies — Geology. a group of metamorphic rock units characterized by particular mineralogic associations.
  • microcrystallinity — The condition of being microcrystalline.
  • microenvironmental — Pertaining to a microenvironment.
  • microgravitational — Of or pertaining to microgravitation.
  • military policeman — A military policeman is a member of the military police.
  • misinterpretations — Plural form of misinterpretation.
  • misrepresentations — Plural form of misrepresentation.
  • mobile data system — a system consisting of a client computer requesting information and a server supplying this information
  • monetary aggregate — a measure of the money in circulation.
  • mountain cranberry — cowberry
  • natural resistance — natural immunity.
  • neurodevelopmental — Of or pertaining to the development of neurological pathways in the brain.
  • neuroleptanalgesia — a semiconscious nonreactive state induced by certain drug combinations, as fentanyl with droperidol.
  • non-accountability — the state of being accountable, liable, or answerable.
  • non-circumstantial — of pertaining to, or derived from circumstances: a circumstantial result.
  • 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-representation — the act of representing.
  • non-understandable — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
  • nonconfrontational — Tending to deal with situations calmly and diplomatically; not aggressive or hostile.
  • not in a fit state — If you say that someone is not in a fit state to do something, you mean that they are too upset or ill to do it.
  • not take kindly to — not welcome
  • now you're talking — at last you're saying something agreeable
  • numerical taxonomy — classification of organisms by a comparison of large numbers of observable characteristics that are given equal value instead of being weighted according to possible evolutionary significance.
  • object-orientation — object-oriented
  • octachlorobiphenyl — (organic compound) Either of twelve isomers of the polychlorinated biphenyl containing eight chlorine atoms.
  • oriental alabaster — alabaster (def 2).
  • oriental almandine — a variety of corundum resembling almandine in colour and used as a gemstone
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