18-letter words containing ant
- lieutenant colonel — a commissioned officer ranking next below a colonel and next above a major.
- lieutenant general — a commissioned officer ranking next below a general and next above a major general.
- malignant melanoma — skin cancer
- merchant of venice — a comedy (1596?) by Shakespeare.
- mexican fire-plant — a showy plant, Euphorbia heterophylla, of the spurge family, growing in the central U.S. to central South America, having red or mottled red and white bracts.
- mid-atlantic ridge — a north-south suboceanic ridge in the Atlantic Ocean from Iceland to Antarctica on whose crest are several groups of islands; shown by plate tectonics to be the axis along which North America has split away from Eurasia, and along which South America has split away from Africa.
- non-circumstantial — of pertaining to, or derived from circumstances: a circumstantial result.
- palaeoanthropology — the branch of anthropology concerned with primitive man
- peasant proprietor — a peasant who owns land, especially the land he or she tills.
- personal assistant — aide
- phantasmagorically — having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
- phantom withdrawal — the unauthorized removal of funds from a bank account using an automated teller machine
- plumber's merchant — a shop or business that sells things needed for the job of installing and repairing pipes, fixtures, etc, for water, drainage, and gas
- porcupine anteater — an echidna or spiny anteater.
- preantepenultimate — third from the end.
- provision merchant — a person or company in the business of retailing food and other provisions
- quantity surveying — the action or profession of a person who estimates the cost of the materials and labour necessary for a construction job
- quantum efficiency — the number of electrons released by a photocell per photon of incident radiation of a given energy
- quantum statistics — the branch of statistical mechanics that incorporates quantum mechanics.
- radiant efficiency — the ratio of the power emitted by a source of radiation to the power consumed by it
- reprocessing plant — a plant where materials are treated in order to make them reusable
- research assistant — a graduate who is employed on a temporary or part-time basis to assist the university with academic research
- resurrection plant — a desert plant, Selaginella lepidophylla, occurring from Texas to South America, having stems that curl inward when dry.
- significant symbol — a verbal or nonverbal gesture, as a word or smile, that has acquired a conventionalized meaning.
- super giant slalom — a slalom race in which the course is longer and has more widely spaced gates than in a giant slalom.
- teaching assistant — a graduate student in a college or university who is the recipient of a teaching fellowship. Abbreviation: TA.
- technical sergeant — a noncommissioned officer ranking below a master sergeant and above a staff sergeant.
- the north atlantic — the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean, especially the waters separating North America and Europe
- the south atlantic — the part of the Atlantic Ocean that lies to the south of the equator
- thioantimonic acid — a hypothetical acid, H3SbS4, known only in the form of its salts
- thiruvananthapuram — a state in SW India: formerly the regions of Travancore and Cochin. 15,005 sq. mi. (38,836 sq. km). Capital: Thiruvananthapuram.
- to one's advantage — If you use or turn something to your advantage, you use it in order to benefit from it, especially when it might be expected to harm or damage you.
- transubstantiation — the changing of one substance into another.
- trente et quarante — rouge et noir.
- visible panty line — the line of someone's underwear which can be seen through trousers
- wardrobe assistant — a person who assists the wardrobe mistress in a theatre
- warrant of fitness — a six-monthly certificate required for motor vehicles certifying mechanical soundness