18-letter words containing g, y, r, o, l
- palaeoanthropology — the branch of anthropology concerned with primitive man
- parathyroid glands — any of several small oval glands usually lying near or embedded in the thyroid gland.
- personal bodyguard — a person employed to protect a particular person
- phantasmagorically — having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
- physical geography — the branch of geography concerned with natural features and phenomena of the earth's surface, as landforms, drainage features, climates, soils, and vegetation.
- plane trigonometry — the branch of trigonometry dealing with plane triangles.
- positively charged — having a positive charge
- psychogalvanometer — a type of galvanometer for detecting and measuring psychogalvanic currents.
- psychopharmacology — the branch of pharmacology dealing with the psychological effects of drugs.
- range of stability — the angle to the perpendicular through which a vessel may be heeled without losing the ability to right itself.
- reentering polygon — a polygon having one or more reentering angles.
- refrigerated lorry — a lorry which is chilled in the back as for storing food
- reporters' gallery — an area in parliament reserved for journalists and reporters
- reverse psychology — (in nontechnical use) a method of getting another person to do what one wants by pretending not to want it or to want something else or something more.
- safety regulations — regulations or rules that are put in place to ensure a product, event, etc, is safe and not dangerous
- secondary diagonal — a diagonal line or plane.
- shugart technology — Seagate Technology
- sling psychrometer — a psychrometer so designed that the wet-bulb thermometer can be ventilated, to expedite evaporation, by whirling in the air.
- spectroheliography — the process of obtaining an image of the sun in light of a particular wavelength, such as calcium or hydrogen, showing the distribution of the element over the surface and in the solar atmosphere, using a spectroheliograph
- spherical geometry — the branch of geometry that deals with figures on spherical surfaces.
- 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
- 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).
- to gird your loins — If you gird your loins, you prepare to do something difficult or dangerous.
- to spill your guts — if someone spills their guts, they tell you everything about something secret or private
- translation agency — an organization that provide people to translate speech or writing into a different language
- treaty obligations — obligations or duties that must be carried out by a party as according to a treaty they have entered into
- with flying colors — with flying colors, with an overwhelming victory, triumph, or success: He passed the test with flying colors.
- yellow-green algae — a group of common single-celled and colonial algae of the phylum Chrysophyta, having mostly yellow and green pigments, occurring in soil and on moist rocks and vegetation and also as a slime or scum on ponds and stagnant waters.