18-letter words containing l, i, v, n, g
- school-leaving age — the minimum age that children are legally allowed to leave school - in Britain and the United States, this is 16
- selective breeding — the raising of animals with particular genetic traits through careful choice of parents
- 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.
- 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.
- tender loving care — considerate and kindly care, as of someone who is ill, upset, etc
- 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.
- traveling salesman — a male representative of a business firm who travels in an assigned territory soliciting orders for a company's products or services.
- travelling library — a mobile library in which a vehicle such as a van delivers books to be borrowed
- universal coupling — a coupling between rotating shafts set at an angle to one another, allowing for rotation in three planes.
- 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.
- universal language — an auxiliary language that is used and understood everywhere.
- universal negative — a proposition of the form “No S is P.” Symbol: E, e.
- universal suffrage — suffrage for all persons over a certain age, usually 18 or 21, who in other respects satisfy the requirements established by law.
- winged everlasting — a bushy composite plant, Ammobium alatum, of Australia, having winged branches, javelin-shaped leaves, and white flowers.