18-letter words containing a, n, g, l, i, c
- oath of allegiance — pledge to one's nation
- occupational group — An occupational group is a category used by insurance companies to classify jobs according to how hazardous they are.
- on delicate ground — in a situation requiring tact
- optical brightener — an additive that dyes and brightens fabric or paper
- organic solidarity — social cohesiveness that is based on division of labor and interdependence and is characteristic of complex, industrial societies.
- oscillating engine — a steam engine having piston rods connected directly to the crankshaft and cylinders oscillating on trunnions.
- parallel computing — parallel processing
- pathologic anatomy — the branch of pathology dealing with the morphologic changes in tissues.
- people trafficking — the practice of bringing immigrants into a country illegally
- percentile ranking — the percentage of scores that a particular score is greater than
- perceptual mapping — the use of a graph or map in the development of a new product, in which the proximity of consumers' images of the new product to those of an ideal product provide an indication of the new product's likely success
- percussion flaking — a method of forming a flint tool by striking flakes from a stone core with another stone or a piece of bone or wood.
- phantasmagorically — having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
- plenary indulgence — a remission of the total temporal punishment that is still due to sin after absolution. Compare indulgence (def 6).
- pontifical college — the chief body of priests in ancient Rome.
- principal argument — the radian measure of the argument between −π and π of a complex number. Compare argument (def 8c).
- principal diagonal — a diagonal line or plane.
- publicity campaign — an effort to convey information to the public
- publishing company — a firm which publishes books
- racial segregation — social policy: separation of races
- replacement engine — an engine used to replace or substitute an older or broken engine (in a vehicle, etc)
- reprocessing plant — a plant where materials are treated in order to make them reusable
- resistance welding — welding utilizing pressure and heat that is generated in the pieces to be welded by resistance to an electric current.
- restraining circle — any of three circles on the floor of a basketball court used for jump balls: other players must remain outside the circle during a jump ball
- rolling resistance — The rolling resistance of a wheel or ball is its resistance to movement caused by friction between it and the surface it is rolling on.
- sampling frequency — sample rate
- sampling statistic — any function of observed data, esp one used to estimate the corresponding parameter of the underlying distribution, such as the sample mean, sample variance, etc
- school-leaving age — the minimum age that children are legally allowed to leave school - in Britain and the United States, this is 16
- scripting language — a language that is used to write scripts, or executable sections of code that automate tasks.
- secondary diagonal — a diagonal line or plane.
- secretarial agency — a recruiting business which deals with jobs for secretaries
- self-deprecatingly — in a self-deprecating manner
- self-glorification — a glorified or more splendid form of something.
- self-gratification — the act of pleasing or satisfying oneself, especially the gratifying of one's own impulses, needs, or desires.
- self-incriminating — serving to incriminate oneself or to expose oneself to prosecution: self-incriminating testimony.
- self-tapping screw — a screw designed to tap its corresponding female thread as it is driven.
- significance level — (in the statistical test of a hypothesis) the maximum probability of a Type I error for all distributions consistent with the null hypothesis.
- significant symbol — a verbal or nonverbal gesture, as a word or smile, that has acquired a conventionalized meaning.
- sleeping policeman — a bump built across roads, esp in housing estates, to deter motorists from speeding
- social bookmarking — the practice of saving bookmarked Web pages to a public website as a way to share the links with other Internet users: Social bookmarking is a tool that allows you to add tags and comments to your bookmarks.
- social engineering — the application of the findings of social science to the solution of actual social problems.
- societal marketing — marketing that takes into account society's long-term welfare
- sociotechnological — of, relating to, or signifying the combination or interaction of social and technological factors.
- 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.
- spackling compound — spackle
- spherical triangle — a triangle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
- stepping-off place — jumping-off place (def 2).
- stinking chamomile — mayweed.
- strathclyde region — a former local government region in W Scotland: formed in 1975 from Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire, Buteshire, Dunbartonshire, and parts of Argyllshire, Ayrshire, and Stirlingshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Glasgow, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Argyll and Bute, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and East Ayrshire
- surgical appliance — a specialized device used by somebody to relieve a particular medical condition