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18-letter words containing a, d, v, e, r

  • driver's education — high-school driving classes
  • each and every one — all
  • earned run average — a measure of the effectiveness of a pitcher, obtained by dividing the number of earned runs scored against the pitcher by the number of innings pitched and multiplying the result by nine. A pitcher yielding three earned runs in nine innings has an earned run average of 3.00. Abbreviation: ERA, era.
  • eau de vie de marc — marc (def 2).
  • electrovalent bond — a type of chemical bond in which one atom loses an electron to form a positive ion and the other atom gains the electron to form a negative ion. The resulting ions are held together by electrostatic attraction
  • every now and then — from time to time; occasionally
  • federal government — pertaining to or of the nature of a union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of the separate states, as in federal government; federal system.
  • forgive and forget — be reconciled
  • give sb their head — If you give someone their head, you allow them to do what they want to do, without trying to advise or stop them.
  • grand traverse bay — an inlet of Lake Michigan on the NW of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan.
  • have words with sb — If one person has words with another, or if two or more people have words, they have a serious discussion or argument, especially because one has complained about the other's behaviour.
  • hemidemisemiquaver — a sixty-fourth note.
  • hit-and-run driver — sb: leaves accident scene
  • hold a reservation — If a hotel holds a reservation, it keeps a room for someone, and does not give it to someone else.
  • in inverted commas — If you say in inverted commas after a word or phrase, you are indicating that it is inaccurate or unacceptable in some way, or that you are quoting someone else.
  • indecent behaviour — the offence of committing indecent acts
  • indentured servant — a person who came to America and was placed under contract to work for another over a period of time, usually seven years, especially during the 17th to 19th centuries. Generally, indentured servants included redemptioners, victims of religious or political persecution, persons kidnapped for the purpose, convicts, and paupers.
  • individual liberty — the liberty of an individual to exercise freely those rights generally accepted as being outside of governmental control.
  • inductive relation — A relation R between domains D and E is inductive if for all chains d1 .. dn in D and e1 .. en in E,
  • industrial vehicle — a vehicle designed for use in industry
  • james baird weaver — James Baird, 1833–1912, U.S. politician: congressman 1879–81, 1885–89.
  • labrador retriever — one of a breed of retrievers having a short, thick, oily, solid black or yellow coat, raised originally in Newfoundland.
  • lunitidal interval — the period of time between the moon's transit and the next high lunar tide.
  • microwave detector — a device for recording the speed of a motorist
  • mordovian republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga basin. Capital: Saransk. Pop: 888 700 (2002). Area: 26 200 sq km (10 110 sq miles)
  • movers and shakers — a person or thing that moves.
  • moving bed reactor — A moving bed reactor is a reactor in which a layer of catalyst in the form of granules is moved between a reaction area and a regeneration area.
  • native advertising — advertising content on a website that conforms to the design and format of the site and is integrated into the site’s usual content: native advertising that is almost indistinguishable from the paper’s news stories.
  • neurodevelopmental — Of or pertaining to the development of neurological pathways in the brain.
  • nominative-address — a noun naming the person to whom one is speaking.
  • non-discriminative — constituting a particular quality, trait, or difference; characteristic; notable.
  • nueva san salvador — Santa Tecla.
  • operation overlord — the codename for the Allied invasion (June 1944) of northern France
  • optical disc drive — optical disk drive
  • optical disk drive — (hardware)   (Or "optical disc drive", "optical storage") A generic term for any device that reads and/or writes optical media, i.e. compact discs, DVDs and/or Blu-ray discs or future media that uses light (from a small laser) to read data off a removable, rotating disk. At least one such drive is commonly installed in most personal computers to allow them to play and/or record audio and video media and load and store data such as program installers. The floppy disk has been replaced by optical media due to its vastly greater capacity, e.g. 50,000 megabytes for a dual-layer blu-ray disc compared with 1.5 megabytes for a floppy (over 30,000 times as much).
  • over and done with — If you say that something is over and done with, you mean that it is completely finished and you do not have to think about it any more.
  • overdraft facility — a facility (of a bank or building-society cheque account) that allows a withdrawal of money in excess of the account's credit balance
  • overdraft interest — interest charged on money withdrawn in excess of the credit balance of a bank or building society account
  • overhead projector — over one's head; aloft; up in the air or sky, especially near the zenith: There was a cloud overhead.
  • overidentification — an act or instance of identifying; the state of being identified.
  • partial derivative — the derivative of a function with respect to one of its variables with all other variables held constant.
  • positively charged — having a positive charge
  • postviral syndrome — debilitating condition occurring as a sequel to viral illness
  • preservation order — In Britain, a preservation order is an official order that makes it illegal for anyone to alter or destroy something such as an old building or an area of countryside.
  • racially motivated — motivated by (the hate or prejudice of) someone's race
  • radioactive 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.
  • radioactive series — a succession of elements initiated in the radioactive decay of a parent, as thorium or uranium, each of which decays into the next until a stable element, usually lead, is produced.
  • rapid eye movement — rapidly shifting, continuous movements of the eyes beneath closed lids during the stage of sleep characterized by dreaming.
  • redevelopment area — an urban area in which all or most of the buildings are demolished and rebuilt
  • second triumvirate — the coalition and joint rule of the Roman Empire by Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian, begun in 43 bc
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