18-letter words containing oa
- accommodation road — a road that serves residential properties or a piece of land but which is not considered a public highway
- activated charcoal — a form of carbon having very fine pores: used chiefly for adsorbing gases or solutes, as in various filter systems for purification, deodorization, and decolorization.
- almoner's cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
- american cockroach — a large, reddish-brown cockroach, Periplaneta americana, found originally in the southern U.S. but now widely distributed.
- at boardroom level — among directors
- board of directors — A company's board of directors is the group of people elected by its shareholders to manage the company.
- board of education — a group or agency with responsibility for education
- board of elections — a bipartisan board appointed usually by local authorities and charged with control of elections and voting procedure.
- board of examiners — a group of people who officially administer examinations
- board of governors — a group of people who oversee the running of a school
- broad-leaved maple — a maple, Acer macrophyllum, of western North America, characterized by dark green, thickened leaves that may reach 12 inches (30 cm) or more in width.
- broadcasting house — any of a number of buildings in the UK from which the BBC broadcasts or has broadcast
- butler's sideboard — a sideboard, often with a fall front, having on its top a china cabinet with glazed doors.
- chloroacetophenone — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous solid, C 8 H 7 ClO, used in solution as a tear gas. Abbreviation: CN.
- coals to newcastle — If someone is taking coals to Newcastle, they are trying to give or sell someone something that they already have a lot of.
- coast rhododendron — a rhododendron, Rhododendron macrophyllum, of western North America, having large clusters of rose-purple flowers spotted with brown: the state flower of Washington.
- coast-guard cutter — a cutter used by the U.S. Coast Guard.
- coastguard station — the headquarters or local offices of a coastguard
- consolidation loan — a single loan which is taken out to pay off several separate existing loans
- cutthroat contract — a form of contract bridge for four persons in which partners are decided by the bidding.
- cytoarchitectonics — Cytoarchitecture.
- do a roaring trade — If someone does a roaring trade in a type of goods, they sell a lot of them.
- electroacupuncture — the insertion into the body of one or more needles through which an electric current is passed
- floating partition — a partition running parallel to and between two joists and resting on blocking between them.
- floating underflow — underflow
- floating-rate note — a eurobond, often issued as a negotiable bearer bond, that has a floating rate of interest
- get someone's goat — to cause annoyance to someone
- greater roadrunner — either of two large terrestrial cuckoos of the genus Geococcyx of arid regions of the western U.S., Mexico, and Central America, especially G. californianus (greater roadrunner)
- have by the throat — to have compete control over (a person or thing)
- irreproachableness — The quality or state of being irreproachable; integrity; innocence.
- isoamyl salicylate — a colorless, sometimes slightly yellow, synthetic oil, C 12 H 16 O 3 , having an orchidlike odor: used in perfumery.
- knight of the road — a tramp
- lesser whitethroat — an Old World warbler, Sylvia curruca, having a greyish-brown plumage with a white throat and underparts
- middle-of-the-road — favoring, following, or characterized by an intermediate position between two extremes, especially in politics; moderate.
- motor torpedo boat — PT boat.
- move the goalposts — to change the aims of an activity to ensure the desired results
- oak-leaf hydrangea — a shrub, Hydrangea quercifolia, of the southeastern U.S., having lobed leaves and pyramidal clusters of white flowers.
- oath of allegiance — pledge to one's nation
- oriental cockroach — a dark-brown cockroach, Blatta orientalis, thought to have originated in Asia but now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution.
- palaeoanthropology — the branch of anthropology concerned with primitive man
- payload specialist — an astronaut trained to handle highly complex or classified equipment carried aboard a space shuttle and to conduct experiments in space.
- pseudoappendicitis — inflammation of the vermiform appendix.
- 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.
- rest on one's oars — a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat.
- sao joao de meriti — a city in SE Brazil, NW of Rio de Janeiro.
- semi-microanalysis — any analytical method in which the weight of the sample is between 10 and 100 milligrams.
- septic sore throat — an acute, toxic, streptococcus infection of the throat producing fever, tonsillitis, and other serious effects.
- sugarloaf mountain — a mountain in SE Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, at the entrance to Guanabara Bay. 1280 feet (390 meters).
- the coast is clear — If you say that the coast is clear, you mean that there is nobody around to see you or catch you.
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