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18-letter words containing g, r, i, f, n

  • sampling frequency — sample rate
  • school of motoring — a centre where people pay for lessons to learn to drive
  • seafloor spreading — a process in which new ocean floor is created as molten material from the earth's mantle rises in margins between plates or ridges and spreads out.
  • secondary offering — the sale of a large block of outstanding stock off the floor of an exchange, usually by a major stockholder.
  • self-comprehending — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
  • self-deprecatingly — in a self-deprecating manner
  • self-disparagement — the act of disparaging.
  • 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-interrogation — the act of interrogating; questioning.
  • self-raising flour — flour with baking powder
  • self-tapping screw — a screw designed to tap its corresponding female thread as it is driven.
  • self-understanding — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
  • shift one's ground — to change one's argument or defense
  • single-lens reflex — See under reflex camera. Abbreviation: SLR.
  • six-finger country — an isolated area considered as being inhabited by people who practise inbreeding
  • skin friction drag — aerodynamic resistance or drag due to the contact of moving air with the surface of an airplane, a glider, etc.
  • squinting modifier — a word or phrase that can modify either the words that precede it or those that follow, as frequently in the sentence Studying frequently is tedious.
  • standard of living — a grade or level of subsistence and comfort in everyday life enjoyed by a community, class, or individual: The well-educated generally have a high standard of living.
  • stirling's formula — a relation that approximates the value of n factorial (n!), expressed as .
  • strait of magellan — a strait between the mainland of S South America and Tierra del Fuego, linking the S Pacific with the S Atlantic. Length: 600 km (370 miles). Width: up to 32 km (20 miles)
  • sugarloaf mountain — a mountain in SE Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, at the entrance to Guanabara Bay. 1280 feet (390 meters).
  • sweptwing aircraft — an aircraft which has wings that are swept (usually) backwards
  • to-ing and fro-ing — If you say that there is a lot of to-ing and fro-ing, you mean that the same actions or movements or the same arguments are being repeated many times.
  • torsion-free group — a group in which every element other than the identity has infinite order.
  • transmogrification — to change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.
  • treaty of waitangi — a treaty signed in 1840 by Māori chiefs and a representative of the British Government, providing the basis for the British annexation of New Zealand
  • triangle of forces — a triangle whose sides represent the magnitudes and directions of three forces whose resultant is zero and which are therefore in equilibrium
  • tune someone grief — to annoy or harass someone
  • two-tier financing — a form of lending in which the debt is divided into two separate parts, as in a first and second mortgage held by an individual on a single property
  • under the aegis of — guided or protected by
  • universal suffrage — suffrage for all persons over a certain age, usually 18 or 21, who in other respects satisfy the requirements established by law.
  • video conferencing — the holding of videoconferences.
  • visiting professor — a professor from another institution invited to teach at a university or college for a limited period, usually for a semester or one academic year.
  • whitewater rafting — the sport of rafting down fast-flowing rivers, esp over rapids
  • wingback formation — single wingback formation.
  • with flying colors — with flying colors, with an overwhelming victory, triumph, or success: He passed the test with flying colors.
  • wrongful dismissal — the act of making someone redundant for reasons which are illegal or unjust
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