18-letter words containing m, a, n, g, e, r
- osteogenic sarcoma — osteosarcoma
- overnight telegram — a type of domestic telegram sent at a reduced rate with a minimum charge for 10 words or less and accepted until midnight for delivery the following day.
- palm beach gardens — a city in SE Florida, near North Palm Beach.
- parachute regiment — an airborne regiment of an army
- parallel computing — parallel processing
- parallel importing — the importing of certain goods, esp pharmaceutical drugs, by dealers who undersell local manufacturers
- perceptual mapping — the use of a graph or map in the development of a new product, in which the proximity of consumers' images of the new product to those of an ideal product provide an indication of the new product's likely success
- plane trigonometry — the branch of trigonometry dealing with plane triangles.
- postmaster general — the executive head of the postal system of a country.
- primate of england — a title of the archbishop of Canterbury.
- principal argument — the radian measure of the argument between −π and π of a complex number. Compare argument (def 8c).
- production manager — a supervisor of the budget, crew and other details in the production of a film or play
- programme planning — the act of creating plans or schedules, esp in relation to your occupation
- project management — leadership of a task or programme
- propaganda machine — the group of people, publications, etc, such as of a government, country etc, responsible for the organized dissemination of information, allegations, etc, to assist or damage the cause of a government, movement, etc
- psychogalvanometer — a type of galvanometer for detecting and measuring psychogalvanic currents.
- radiometric dating — any method of determining the age of earth materials or objects of organic origin based on measurement of either short-lived radioactive elements or the amount of a long-lived radioactive element plus its decay product.
- reciprocating pump — A reciprocating pump is a pump which uses a backward and forward movement to move a fluid.
- recruitment agency — company that places job candidates
- reggio nell'emilia — a city in N Italy.
- registered company — a company which has officially registered its business
- remanent magnetism — magnetization in minerals induced by a former magnetic field and persisting after the field changes.
- repayment mortgage — a mortgage that you pay back in monthly repayments which consist of the accrued interest in addition to the original amount borrowed
- replacement engine — an engine used to replace or substitute an older or broken engine (in a vehicle, etc)
- residual magnetism — remanence.
- retrograde amnesia — a memory disorder characterized by an inability to remember events or experiences that occurred before a significant point in time.
- roman congregation — any of the executive departments of the Curia Romana as the administration of the Roman Catholic Church.
- rule of engagement — a directive issued by a military authority controlling the use and degree of force, especially specifying circumstances and limitations for engaging in combat.
- runge-kutta method — a numerical method, involving successive approximations, used to solve differential equations.
- running commentary — non-stop description of sth
- running martingale — martingale (def 2).
- sampling frequency — sample rate
- schengen agreement — an agreement, signed in 1985 at a meeting of European leaders near Schengen, Luxembourg, but not implemented until 1995, to gradually abolish border controls within Europe; it was supplemented in 1990 by the Schengen Convention; in 1999 the agreement was incorporated into European Union law. Twenty-six countries acceded by 2015; the UK is not a signatory
- security agreement — business: contract
- self-disparagement — the act of disparaging.
- self-incriminating — serving to incriminate oneself or to expose oneself to prosecution: self-incriminating testimony.
- ski-mountaineering — a combination of the sports of skiing and mountaineering, for example by climbing up a mountain then skiing down it
- societal marketing — marketing that takes into account society's long-term welfare
- something to spare — a surplus of something
- specimen signature — a signature to be compared to an original signature in order to verify someone's identity
- state of emergency — If a government or other authority declares a state of emergency in an area, it introduces special measures such as increased powers for the police or army, usually because of civil disorder or because of a natural disaster such as an earthquake.
- strait of magellan — a strait between the mainland of S South America and Tierra del Fuego, linking the S Pacific with the S Atlantic. Length: 600 km (370 miles). Width: up to 32 km (20 miles)
- strangeness number — a quantum number, designating the strangeness of an elementary particle, equivalent to the hypercharge minus the baryon number
- summary proceeding — a mode of trial authorized by statute to be held before a judge without the usual full hearing.
- super giant slalom — a slalom race in which the course is longer and has more widely spaced gates than in a giant slalom.
- 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
- sympathetic string — a thin wire string, as in various obsolete musical instruments, designed to vibrate sympathetically with the bowed or plucked strings to reinforce the sound.
- system-programming — a program, as an operating system, compiler, or utility program, that controls some aspect of the operation of a computer (opposed to application program).
- the hunger marches — a number of processions by unemployed workers in the 1930s to protest against unemployment and deprivation
- the major rogation — April 25, observed by Christians as a day of solemn supplication for the harvest and marked by processions, special prayers, and blessing of the crops