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18-letter words containing l, a, c, e, g, s

  • scripting language — a language that is used to write scripts, or executable sections of code that automate tasks.
  • seagate technology — (company)   A major manufacturer of hard disk drives, founded in 1979 as "Shugart Technology" by Alan F. Shugart and Finis Conner. That name is on the original patents for the 5.25" hard disk drive. They changed the name to Seagate Technology soon after to avoid confusion, and also to avoid friction with Xerox, which had since purchased Alan's earlier company, Shugart Associates. Address: 920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, CA 95066, USA. Fax: +1 (408) 438 3320.
  • secondary diagonal — a diagonal line or plane.
  • secretarial agency — a recruiting business which deals with jobs for secretaries
  • self-deprecatingly — in a self-deprecating manner
  • 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-tapping screw — a screw designed to tap its corresponding female thread as it is driven.
  • shugart technology — Seagate Technology
  • significance level — (in the statistical test of a hypothesis) the maximum probability of a Type I error for all distributions consistent with the null hypothesis.
  • sleeping policeman — a bump built across roads, esp in housing estates, to deter motorists from speeding
  • social engineering — the application of the findings of social science to the solution of actual social problems.
  • societal marketing — marketing that takes into account society's long-term welfare
  • sociotechnological — of, relating to, or signifying the combination or interaction of social and technological factors.
  • 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.
  • sole-charge school — a rural school with only one teacher
  • 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.
  • spherical triangle — a triangle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
  • stepping-off place — jumping-off place (def 2).
  • stinking chamomile — mayweed.
  • 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).
  • superciliary ridge — browridge.
  • surgical appliance — a specialized device used by somebody to relieve a particular medical condition
  • swarm intelligence — the collective behaviour of a group of animals, esp social insects such as ants, bees, and termites, that are each following very basic rules
  • technical sergeant — a noncommissioned officer ranking below a master sergeant and above a staff sergeant.
  • the class struggle — the continual conflict between the capitalist and working classes for economic and political power
  • to scrape a living — If you say that someone scrapes a living or scratches a living, you mean that they manage to earn enough to live on, but it is very difficult. In American English, you say they scrape out a living or scratch out a living.
  • transcendental ego — (in Kantian epistemology) that part of the self that is the subject and never the object.
  • translation agency — an organization that provide people to translate speech or writing into a different language
  • 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
  • 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
  • universal coupling — a coupling between rotating shafts set at an angle to one another, allowing for rotation in three planes.
  • wheelchair housing — housing designed or adapted for a chairbound person
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