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18-letter words that end in t

  • central government — the government of a state or country
  • championship point — a point that would decide the winner of a match that would decide the championship
  • change the subject — to select a new topic of conversation
  • child psychologist — a psychologist who specializes in treating children
  • christian democrat — a member or supporter of a Christian Democratic party
  • classical sanskrit — Sanskrit of an ancient period earlier than that of the Prakrits and later than Vedic.
  • claw-and-ball foot — ball-and-claw foot.
  • clean up one's act — to start to behave in a responsible manner
  • coiled tubing unit — A coiled tubing unit is all of the equipment needed to carry out coiled tubing drilling.
  • come home to roost — If bad or wrong things that someone has done in the past have come home to roost, or if their chickens have come home to roost, they are now experiencing the unpleasant effects of these actions.
  • common command set — (storage, standard)   (CCS) Additional requirements and features for direct-access SCSI devices. In 1985 when the first SCSI standard was being finalised as an American National Standard, the X3T9.2 Task Group was approached by some manufacturers who wanted changes. Rather than delay the SCSI standard, X3T9.2 formed an ad hoc group to define CCS.
  • common data format — (library)   (CDF) A library and toolkit based on a self-describing data format for scalar and multidimensional data. CDF aims to be platform- and discipline-independent. A scientific data management package (CDF Library) allows developers to manage data and metadata through APIs. CDF has built-in support for data compression (gZip, RLE, Huffman) and files larger than two gigabytes. There are interfaces for C, FORTRAN, Java, Perl, C#, Visual Basic, IDL and MATLAB.
  • commutation ticket — a ticket entitling the holder to travel over the same route, as on a railroad, a specified number of times at a reduced rate
  • compensation point — the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide at which the rate of carbon dioxide uptake by a photosynthesizing plant is exactly balanced by its rate of carbon dioxide release in respiration and photorespiration
  • computer scientist — a person with advanced knowledge of computers and how they work
  • condensation point — a point of which every neighborhood contains an uncountable number of points of a given set.
  • continuation sheet — (in a document) a page that continues from the one before it, containing similar information
  • control experiment — an experiment designed to check or correct the results of another experiment by removing the variable or variables operating in that other experiment. The comparison obtained is an indication or measurement of the effect of the variables concerned
  • convenience market — the area of business which involves selling convenience foods
  • 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.
  • costume department — the department in a theatre or television company that is responsible for actors' costumes
  • counterculturalist — the culture and lifestyle of those people, especially among the young, who reject or oppose the dominant values and behavior of society.
  • cry one's eyes out — to weep bitterly
  • cutthroat contract — a form of contract bridge for four persons in which partners are decided by the bidding.
  • deficiency account — an account summarizing the financial condition of an individual or company in danger of bankruptcy.
  • deficiency payment — a payment made to a commodity producer that represents the difference between the market price and the guaranteed price
  • democratic deficit — any situation in which there is believed to be a lack of democratic accountability and control over the decision-making process
  • dendrochronologist — One who carries out dendrochronology.
  • desalination plant — a factory where salt is removed from salt water in order to make the water suitable for drinking and irrigation
  • detective sergeant — a police officer who investigates crime and who ranks above a detective constable but below a detective inspector
  • dietary supplement — a substance taken in addition to what you eat in order to promote health
  • disenfranchisement — to disfranchise.
  • disorderly conduct — any of various petty misdemeanors, generally including nuisances, breaches of the peace, offensive or immoral conduct in public, etc.
  • dispensing chemist — a shop where drugs and medicines are sold or given out
  • dispersible tablet — A dispersible tablet is a tablet that disintegrates in water or other liquid.
  • display postscript — An extended form of PostScript permitting its interactive use with bitmap displays.
  • do not give a hoot — If you say that you don't give a hoot or don't care two hoots about something, you are emphasizing that you do not care at all about it.
  • 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.
  • doubly linked list — (programming)   A data structure in which each element contains pointers to the next and previous elements in the list, thus forming a bidirectional linear list.
  • dressing table set — a set including a hairbrush, mirror and comb, often with silver backs
  • drop in the bucket — a deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail.
  • drug on the market — Pharmacology. a chemical substance used in the treatment, cure, prevention, or diagnosis of disease or used to otherwise enhance physical or mental well-being.
  • drug-eluting stent — A drug-eluting stent is a tube placed into a blocked artery that slowly releases a drug to prevent another blockage in the artery.
  • dwarf storage unit — (humour)   (DSU) An IBM term for a cupboard.
  • east indian walnut — lebbek.
  • eat your heart out — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
  • electoral district — an area that is considered as unit for the purposes of an election
  • electrical circuit — An electrical circuit is a complete route that an electric current can flow around.
  • electroluminescent — Having the quality of electroluminescence.
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