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18-letter words containing g, u, n, t, e, r

  • 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
  • shotgun microphone — a directional microphone with a narrow-angle range of sensitivity.
  • shugart technology — Seagate Technology
  • shunting operation — an operation in which rail coaches are manoeuvred
  • six-finger country — an isolated area considered as being inhabited by people who practise inbreeding
  • ski-mountaineering — a combination of the sports of skiing and mountaineering, for example by climbing up a mountain then skiing down it
  • sound spectrograph — an electronic device for recording a sound spectogram.
  • specimen signature — a signature to be compared to an original signature in order to verify someone's identity
  • 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.
  • squirting cucumber — a Mediterranean plant, Ecballium elaterium, of the gourd family, whose ripened fruit forcibly ejects the seeds and juice.
  • 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
  • super giant slalom — a slalom race in which the course is longer and has more widely spaced gates than in a giant slalom.
  • superstring theory — any supersymmetric string theory in which each type of elementary particle is treated as a vibration of a single fundamental string (superstring) at a particular frequency.
  • supporting actress — an actress playing a supporting role
  • 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
  • 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.
  • thin on the ground — If people or things of a particular kind are thin on the ground, there are very few of them.
  • 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
  • thought experiment — Physics. a demonstration or calculation that is based on the postulates of a theory, as relativity, and that demonstrates or clarifies the consequences of the postulates.
  • to be above ground — to be alive
  • torsion-free group — a group in which every element other than the identity has infinite order.
  • tune someone grief — to annoy or harass someone
  • two-minute warning — a time-out called by an official to notify both teams that two minutes remain in a half.
  • 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.
  • unilateral neglect — a symptom of brain damage in which a person is unaware of one side of his or her body and of anything in the external world on the same side
  • universal negative — a proposition of the form “No S is P.” Symbol: E, e.
  • university heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
  • urgent care center — a clinic outside of a hospital that provides medical care and services to people with urgent but not serious medical problems: urgent care centers as alternatives to emergency rooms. Abbreviation: UCC.
  • veterinary surgeon — Chiefly British. a veterinarian.
  • vigoureux printing — a printing method in which worsted fibers are printed with the desired color while in sliver form and then processed into yarn, producing a mixed color in the spun yarn and woven fabric.
  • westinghouse brake — a railroad air brake operated by compressed air.
  • wood-burning stove — cooker: fueled by wood
  • wrangell mountains — a mountain range in SE Alaska, extending into the Yukon, Canada. Highest peak: Mount Blackburn, 5037 m (16 523 ft)
  • young conservative — a member of the youth section of the United Kingdom Conservative Party
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