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18-letter words containing as

  • easy come, easy go — You use easy come, easy go to indicate that the person you are talking about does not care much about money and possessions.
  • eleanor of castile — 1246–90, Spanish wife of Edward I of England. Eleanor Crosses were erected at each place at which her body rested between Nottingham, where she died, and London, where she is buried
  • engelbart, douglas — Douglas Engelbart
  • eraser stains code — (humour, programming)   Code that has been refactored many times, leaving swaths of legacy code and design; like paper that has been written on and erased so many times that the pencil marks are no longer the problem - the large greasy stain is.
  • fantasy basketball — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
  • far eastern region — former name of Khabarovsk.
  • fascicular cambium — cambium that develops within the vascular bundles, producing secondary xylem and phloem.
  • fast-food industry — the industry surrounding fast-food restaurants
  • feast of orthodoxy — a solemn festival held on the first Sunday of Lent (Orthodoxy Sunday) commemorating the restoration of the use of icons in the church (a.d. 842) and the triumph over all heresies.
  • fermat's last post — (humour)   A post to a bug tracker, mailing list or forum in which the author claims to have found a simple fix or workaround for a bug, but never says what it is and never shows up again to explain it (even after others have been puzzling over the bug for years).
  • first class module — (programming)   A module that is a first class data object of the programming language, e.g. a record containing functions. In a functional language, it is standard to have first class programs, so program building blocks can have the same status.
  • flash butt welding — a method of welding metal edge-to-edge with a powerful electric flash followed by the application of pressure.
  • flat file database — (database)   A database containing a single table, stored in a single flat file, often in a human-readable format such as comma-separated values or fixed-width columns.
  • frederick douglass — Frederick, 1817–95, U.S. ex-slave, abolitionist, and orator.
  • from first to last — all the way through
  • functional disease — a disease in which there is an abnormal change in the function of an organ, but no structural alteration in the tissues involved (opposed to organic disease).
  • gamal abdel nasser — Gamal Abdel [guh-mahl ab-doo l,, juh-] /gəˈmɑl ˈæb dʊl,, dʒə-/ (Show IPA), 1918–70, Egyptian military and political leader: prime minister of Egypt 1954–56; president of Egypt 1956–58; president of the United Arab Republic 1958–70.
  • gas chromatography — a chromatograph used for the separation of volatile substances.
  • gas plasma display — (electronics)   A type of display containing super-energised neon gas, used mostly in flat monitor and television screens. Each pixel has a transistor that controls its colour and brightness.
  • gas-cooled reactor — a nuclear reactor using a gas as the coolant. In the Mark I type the coolant is carbon dioxide, the moderator is graphite, and the fuel is uranium cased in magnox
  • gas-discharge tube — any tube in which an electric discharge takes place through a gas
  • gas-permeable lens — a semisoft contact lens, usually removed each day, that allows air to pass through to the eye and affords a wider range of vision corrections than a soft contact lens.
  • gastroduodenostomy — See under gastroenterostomy.
  • gastroenterologist — the study of the structure, functions, and diseases of digestive organs.
  • german east africa — a former German territory in E Africa, the area now comprised of continental Tanzania and the independent republics of Rwanda and Burundi.
  • grass-of-parnassus — any plant belonging to the genus Parnassia, of the saxifrage family, growing in marshy areas, having broad, smooth leaves and a single, pale flower.
  • grasshopper engine — a steam engine having a piston attached to one end of a beam that is hinged to an upright at the other end, the connecting rod being suspended from near the center of the beam.
  • gravitational mass — the mass of a body as measured by its gravitational attraction for other bodies.
  • grease the palm of — to influence by giving money to; bribe
  • great pastern bone — the part of the foot of a horse, cow, etc., between the fetlock and the hoof.
  • happy as a sandboy — very happy; high-spirited
  • hash house slinger — a person who serves in a cheap cafe
  • head disk assembly — (hardware, storage)   (HDA) A sealed, high capacity mainframe hard disk with integral heads, as opposed to a removable disk.
  • heteroscedasticity — (statistics) The property of a series of random variables of 'not' every variable having the same finite variance.
  • heteroskedasticity — Alternative spelling of heteroscedasticity.
  • horizontal tasting — a tasting of wines from the same year but from different vineyards, producers, etc.
  • hypogastric artery — iliac artery (def 3).
  • hysterical reasons — (Or "hysterical raisins") A variant on the stock phrase "for historical reasons", indicating specifically that something must be done in some stupid way for backward compatibility, and moreover that the feature it must be compatible with was the result of a bad design in the first place. "All IBM PC video adaptors have to support MDA text mode for hysterical reasons." Compare bug-for-bug compatible.
  • ideas of reference — a schizophrenic symptom in which the patient thinks that things completely disconnected from him are influencing him or conveying messages to him
  • 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.
  • in that/which case — You say in that case or in which case to indicate that what you are going to say is true if the possible situation that has just been mentioned actually exists.
  • in the last resort — You use in the last resort when stating the most basic or important fact that will still be true in a situation whatever else happens.
  • industrial disease — occupational disease (def 1).
  • infectious disease — illness spread by person to person
  • infrared astronomy — the study of infrared radiation emitted by celestial objects.
  • inseam measurement — (in tailoring) the measurement on a pair of trousers or on a person of the inside leg from the crotch to the ankle
  • investment casting — a casting process in which an expendable pattern is surrounded by an investment compound and then baked so that the investment is hardened to form a mold and the pattern material may be melted and run off.
  • job classification — an arrangement of different types of employment within a company or industry, according to the skill, experience, or training required.
  • kansas gay-feather — prairie button snakeroot.
  • kawasaki's disease — a disease of children that causes a rash, fever, and swelling of the lymph nodes and often damages the heart muscle
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