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18-letter words containing a, g, u, s, t

  • passing-out parade — a ceremonial parade of cadets who have completed their training
  • pedal steel guitar — an oblong, floor-mounted electrified guitar, usually having ten strings, fretted with a steel bar and producing a wailing sound that is modulated by use of a foot pedal.
  • pigmy hippopotamus — a related but smaller animal, Choeropsis liberiensis
  • population figures — population totals; statistics relating to the size of populations
  • portuguese guinean — of or relating to Portuguese Guinea, a former name for Guinea-Bissau, or its inhabitants
  • procrustean string — (programming)   A fixed-length string. If a string value is too long for the allocated space, it is truncated to fit; and if it is shorter, the empty space is padded, usually with space characters. This is an allusion to Procrustes, a legendary robber of ancient Attica. He bound his victims to a bed, and if they were shorter than the bed, he stretched their limbs until they would fit; if their limbs were longer, he lopped them off.
  • programme of study — the prescribed syllabus that pupils must be taught at each key stage in the National Curriculum
  • punishment beating — a form of corporal punishment carried out by a paramilitary organization on a member of another sectarian organization, usually in Northern Ireland
  • put heads together — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • pygmy hippopotamus — a small hippopotamus, Choeropsis liberiensis, of forests and swamps in western Africa.
  • quantity surveying — the action or profession of a person who estimates the cost of the materials and labour necessary for a construction job
  • radius of gyration — the distance from an axis at which the mass of a body may be assumed to be concentrated and at which the moment of inertia will be equal to the moment of inertia of the actual mass about the axis, equal to the square root of the quotient of the moment of inertia and the mass.
  • rear its ugly head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • reduction strategy — (theory)   An algorithm for deciding which redex(es) to reduce next. Different strategies have different termination properties in the presence of recursive functions or values. See string reduction, normal order reduction, applicative order reduction, parallel reduction
  • regular tertiaries — of the third order, rank, stage, formation, etc.; third.
  • residual magnetism — remanence.
  • safety regulations — regulations or rules that are put in place to ensure a product, event, etc, is safe and not dangerous
  • sampling equipment — Sampling equipment is equipment which is used to remove small amounts of something for analysis and monitoring.
  • saturation bombing — intense area bombing intended to destroy everything in the target area.
  • scripting language — a language that is used to write scripts, or executable sections of code that automate tasks.
  • security agreement — business: contract
  • self-understanding — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
  • seven-league boots — mythical boots that allowed the wearer to travel seven leagues (a former unit of measurement), ie a great length, at each step
  • shugart associates — (company)   The disk drive company, founded by Alan F. Shugart, which developed SCSI. Alan left Shugart Associates in 1974 [did he quit or was he fired?]. Shugart Associates was bought, and eventually shut down by Xerox.
  • shugart technology — Seagate Technology
  • shunting operation — an operation in which rail coaches are manoeuvred
  • ski-mountaineering — a combination of the sports of skiing and mountaineering, for example by climbing up a mountain then skiing down it
  • soft touch sealing — Soft touch sealing is a copolymer seal for a tank, with characteristics designed for softness, used instead of a metal seal to help avoid fire when sparks are generated.
  • solid-fuel heating — heating that uses solid fuel, such as coal or coke
  • sound spectrograph — an electronic device for recording a sound spectogram.
  • spaghetti junction — an interchange, usually between motorways, in which there are a large number of underpasses and overpasses and intersecting roads used by a large volume of high-speed traffic
  • spare-part surgery — surgical replacement of defective or damaged organs by transplant or insertion of artificial devices
  • specimen signature — a signature to be compared to an original signature in order to verify someone's identity
  • stand one's ground — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
  • stirling's formula — a relation that approximates the value of n factorial (n!), expressed as .
  • strangeness number — a quantum number, designating the strangeness of an elementary particle, equivalent to the hypercharge minus the baryon number
  • structural geology — the branch of geology dealing with the structure and distribution of the rocks that make up the crust of the earth. Also called tectonics. Compare structure (def 7a).
  • sugarloaf mountain — a mountain in SE Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, at the entrance to Guanabara Bay. 1280 feet (390 meters).
  • super giant slalom — a slalom race in which the course is longer and has more widely spaced gates than in a giant slalom.
  • supporting actress — an actress playing a supporting role
  • supraorbital ridge — browridge.
  • sustaining program — a radio or television program without a commercial sponsor.
  • the class struggle — the continual conflict between the capitalist and working classes for economic and political power
  • the hunger marches — a number of processions by unemployed workers in the 1930s to protest against unemployment and deprivation
  • to be caught short — If you are caught short or are taken short, you feel a sudden strong need to urinate, especially when you cannot easily find a toilet.
  • ultrasonic testing — the scanning of material with an ultrasonic beam, during which reflections from faults in the material can be detected: a powerful nondestructive test method
  • ultrasonic welding — the use of high-energy vibration of ultrasonic frequency to produce a weld between two components which are held in close contact
  • under the aegis of — guided or protected by
  • under-registration — the act of registering.
  • universal negative — a proposition of the form “No S is P.” Symbol: E, e.
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