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

  • 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
  • prepare the ground — make conditions ready
  • principal argument — the radian measure of the argument between −π and π of a complex number. Compare argument (def 8c).
  • 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.
  • production manager — a supervisor of the budget, crew and other details in the production of a film or play
  • 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.
  • quantity surveying — the action or profession of a person who estimates the cost of the materials and labour necessary for a construction job
  • 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.
  • reciprocating pump — A reciprocating pump is a pump which uses a backward and forward movement to move a fluid.
  • recruitment agency — company that places job candidates
  • 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.
  • rule of engagement — a directive issued by a military authority controlling the use and degree of force, especially specifying circumstances and limitations for engaging in combat.
  • runge-kutta method — a numerical method, involving successive approximations, used to solve differential equations.
  • running commentary — non-stop description of sth
  • running martingale — martingale (def 2).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • teaching equipment — teaching aids
  • the beautiful game — football
  • the class struggle — the continual conflict between the capitalist and working classes for economic and political power
  • the general public — the people in a society; people in general
  • the hunger marches — a number of processions by unemployed workers in the 1930s to protest against unemployment and deprivation
  • theodore gericault — (Jean Louis André) Théodore [zhahn lwee ahn-drey tey-aw-dawr] /ʒɑ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈdreɪ teɪ ɔˈdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1791–1824, French painter.
  • there you go again — Phrases such as there you go again are used to show annoyance at someone who is repeating something that has annoyed you in the past.
  • third man argument — (in the philosophy of Aristotle) the argument against the existence of Platonic Forms that since the Form of Man is itself a perfect man, a further form (the "third" man) would be required to explain this, and so ad infinitum
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