18-letter words containing g, u, a, d
- on delicate ground — in a situation requiring tact
- order of magnitude — You can use order of magnitude when you are giving an approximate idea of the amount or importance of something.
- orthotungstic acid — an oxyacid acid of tungsten. Formula: H2WO4
- paediatric nursing — the branch of nursing concerned with the care of children
- paraurethral gland — any of a group of vestigial glands located in the posterior wall of the urethra in women.
- passing modulation — a modulation of a temporary nature.
- 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.
- personal bodyguard — a person employed to protect a particular person
- pig-tailed macaque — a forest-dwelling southeast Asian macaque, Macaca nemestrina, having a short, curled tail, colonized for animal behavior studies.
- plenary indulgence — a remission of the total temporal punishment that is still due to sin after absolution. Compare indulgence (def 6).
- prepare the ground — make conditions ready
- 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
- 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.
- quevedo y villegas — Francisco Gómez de. 1580–1645, Spanish poet and writer, noted for his satires and the picaresque novel La historia de la vida del Buscón (1626)
- 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 hexahedron — a solid cube with six square faces
- residual magnetism — remanence.
- runge-kutta method — a numerical method, involving successive approximations, used to solve differential equations.
- self-understanding — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
- solid-fuel heating — heating that uses solid fuel, such as coal or coke
- sound spectrograph — an electronic device for recording a sound spectogram.
- spackling compound — spackle
- stand one's ground — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
- submaxillary gland — submandibular gland.
- summary proceeding — a mode of trial authorized by statute to be held before a judge without the usual full hearing.
- superciliary ridge — browridge.
- supraorbital ridge — browridge.
- theodore gericault — (Jean Louis André) Théodore [zhahn lwee ahn-drey tey-aw-dawr] /ʒɑ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈdreɪ teɪ ɔˈdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1791–1824, French painter.
- 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
- to be above ground — to be alive
- 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 debugger — (tool, parallel) (udb) KSR's interactive source level debugger for serial and parallel programs written in KSR, Fortran, KSR C and KSR1 assembly language. Udb is a source level debugger for testing and debugging serial and parallel programs; it is compatible with GDB and dbx. The user can direct udb either by typing commands or graphically through an X-based window interface; the latter provides simultaneous display of source code, I/O and instructions. For parallel programs, operations can be carried out per-thread.
- unpledged delegate — (in the US) a delegate at a national party convention who is free to vote for any candidate
- urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
- work-study program — a program enabling high-school or college students to combine academic work with actual job experience.
- wrongful dismissal — the act of making someone redundant for reasons which are illegal or unjust