18-letter words containing ns
- to gird your loins — If you gird your loins, you prepare to do something difficult or dangerous.
- to spill the beans — If you spill the beans, you tell someone something that people have been trying to keep secret.
- townsend avalanche — avalanche (def 3).
- transcendental ego — (in Kantian epistemology) that part of the self that is the subject and never the object.
- transfer passenger — a traveller who changes from one plane, train, or bus to another, or to another form of transport
- transfinite number — an infinite cardinal or ordinal number.
- transient response — A transient response of a circuit is a temporary change in the way that it behaves due to an external excitation, that will disappear with time.
- transit instrument — Astronomy. meridian circle.
- transit theodolite — a theodolite having a telescope that can be transited.
- transition element — any element in any of the series of elements with atomic numbers 21–29, 39–47, 57–79, and 89–107, that in a given inner orbital has less than a full quota of electrons.
- translation agency — an organization that provide people to translate speech or writing into a different language
- transmission brake — A transmission brake is a brake that operates on the transmission system of a vehicle rather than directly on the wheels.
- transmission shaft — a shaft that rotates transmitting motion from the engine to the differential gear
- transmogrification — to change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.
- transporter bridge — a bridge for carrying passengers and vehicles by means of a platform suspended from a trolley.
- transrectification — rectification occurring in one circuit as a result of the application of an alternating voltage to another circuit.
- transubstantiation — the changing of one substance into another.
- transverse process — a process that projects from the sides of a vertebra.
- transverse section — cross section (def 1).
- transylvanian alps — a mountain range in S Romania; a SW extension of the Carpathian Mountains. Highest peak: Mount Negoiu, 2548 m (8360 ft)
- treaty obligations — obligations or duties that must be carried out by a party as according to a treaty they have entered into
- unconstitutionally — not constitutional; unauthorized by or inconsistent with the constitution, as of a country.
- under-compensation — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
- united nations day — the anniversary of the United Nations on October 24, marking its founding in 1945.
- video installation — an art installation incorporating video footage
- vosges (mountains) — mountain range in NE France, west of the Rhine: highest peak, c. 4,700 ft (1,433 m)
- wandering minstrel — travelling performer
- war risk insurance — life insurance for members of the armed forces.
- water stick insect — a slender sticklike flightless water bug, Ranatra linearis, that is predatory on small creatures such as water fleas
- world championship — an international competition in a particular sport or activity for people all around the world
- wrangell mountains — a mountain range in SE Alaska, extending into the Yukon, Canada. Highest peak: Mount Blackburn, 5037 m (16 523 ft)
- young conservative — a member of the youth section of the United Kingdom Conservative Party