18-letter words containing ns
- nonstriated muscle — smooth muscle
- north lincolnshire — a unitary authority of NE England, in Lincolnshire: formerly (1975–96) part of the county of Humberside. Pop: 155 000 (2003 est). Area: 1497 sq km (578 sq miles)
- northern cameroons — German Kamerun. a region in W Africa: a German protectorate 1884–1919; divided in 1919 into British and French mandates.
- northern transvaal — province of South Africa, in the N part: 47,599 sq mi (123,280 sq km); pop. 5,202,000; cap. Pietersburg
- offensive material — any published or broadcast content (such as articles, photographs, films, or websites) that is likely to be upsetting, insulting, or objectionable to some or most people
- oil of catechumens — holy oil used in baptism, the ordination of a cleric, the coronation of a sovereign, or in the consecration of a church.
- on your conscience — If you have something on your conscience, you feel guilty because you know you have done something wrong.
- operating expenses — Operating expenses are expenses related to carrying out normal business activities.
- operations manager — business director
- osteitis deformans — Paget's disease.
- over-conscientious — governed by conscience; controlled by or done according to one's inner sense of what is right; principled: She's a conscientious judge, who does not let personal prejudices influence her decisions.
- pairs championship — an event in a sport such as tennis or darts open to pairs of competitors
- palm beach gardens — a city in SE Florida, near North Palm Beach.
- pennsylvania dutch — the descendants of 17th- and 18th-century settlers in Pennsylvania from southwest Germany and Switzerland.
- pensioneer trustee — (in Britain) a person authorized by HMRC to oversee the management of a pension fund
- personal insurance — insurance on personal risk, such as car insurance, health insurance or loss of earnings insurance
- photosensitization — to make (a material) photosensitive, as by the application of a photosensitive emulsion.
- plains grasshopper — a large, destructive short-horned grasshopper, Brachystola magna, of the western U.S., marked by pinkish hind wings.
- population density — ratio: inhabitants to area
- precious moonstone — moonstone (def 1).
- property insurance — insurance coverage for land and housing
- rail rapid transit — a system of rail transit within an urban area that has exclusive right of way either below, above, or on the ground and so is capable of relatively high operating speed. Abbreviation: RRT.
- reflection density — a measure of the extent to which a surface reflects light or other electromagnetic radiation, equal to the logarithm to base ten of the reciprocal of the reflectance
- reinsurance treaty — A reinsurance treaty is a contract that defines the terms of reinsurance business.
- remains to be seen — If you say that it remains to be seen whether something will happen, you mean that nobody knows whether it will happen.
- renter's insurance — Renter's insurance is insurance for renters to insure their property against loss.
- research-intensive — focusing financial and other resources on research and development as opposed to capital and labor; noting or pertaining to a high ratio of expenditure on research in relation to the value of net output.
- retirement pension — income: no longer at work
- safety regulations — regulations or rules that are put in place to ensure a product, event, etc, is safe and not dangerous
- san juan mountains — a mountain range in SW Colorado and N New Mexico: part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak: Uncompahgre Peak, 4363 m (14 314 ft)
- secondary consumer — (in the food chain) a carnivore that feeds only upon herbivores.
- self-instructional — pertaining to or constituting learning materials and conditions arranged so that students can proceed to learn on their own with little or no supervision.
- self-transcendence — the quality or state of being transcendent.
- sense of direction — Your sense of direction is your ability to know roughly where you are, or which way to go, even when you are in an unfamiliar place.
- sequence of tenses — the sequence according to which the tense of a subordinate verb in a sentence is determined by the tense of the principal verb, as in I believe he is lying, I believed he was lying, etc
- sickness insurance — a type of insurance which pays out if you become ill
- single-lens reflex — See under reflex camera. Abbreviation: SLR.
- southern cameroons — German Kamerun. a region in W Africa: a German protectorate 1884–1919; divided in 1919 into British and French mandates.
- standoff insulator — a type of insulator that supports an electrical conductor at a distance from other elements or surfaces.
- swartkrans ape-man — the fossil remains of the extinct hominid Australopithecus robustus, found at Swartkrans, Republic of South Africa: formerly classified in the genus Paranthropus.
- take out insurance — take out insurance against something
- telecommunications — Sometimes, telecommunication. (used with a singular verb) the transmission of information, as words, sounds, or images, usually over great distances, in the form of electromagnetic signals, as by telegraph, telephone, radio, or television.
- teleobjective lens — telephoto lens.
- the black and tans — a specially recruited armed auxiliary police force sent to Ireland in 1921 by the British Government to combat Sinn Féin
- the heavens opened — it started pouring with rain
- the nether regions — the genitals
- the sunshine state — the nickname of the US state of Florida, which comes from its sunny climate
- thrift-institution — economical management; economy; frugality.
- to cast aspersions — If you cast aspersions on someone or something, you suggest that they are not very good in some way.
- to come unstitched — to go wrong or awry