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18-letter words containing o, f, g

  • population figures — population totals; statistics relating to the size of populations
  • primate of england — a title of the archbishop of Canterbury.
  • programme of study — the prescribed syllabus that pupils must be taught at each key stage in the National Curriculum
  • purchasing officer — the member of staff in an organization who is responsible for buying goods or products
  • radius of gyration — the distance from an axis at which the mass of a body may be assumed to be concentrated and at which the moment of inertia will be equal to the moment of inertia of the actual mass about the axis, equal to the square root of the quotient of the moment of inertia and the mass.
  • range of stability — the angle to the perpendicular through which a vessel may be heeled without losing the ability to right itself.
  • recruiting officer — a person whose job is to recruit staff, esp on behalf of the military
  • reference counting — (programming)   A garbage collection technique where each memory cell contains a count of the number of other cells which point to it. If this count reaches zero the cell is freed and its pointers to other cells are followed to decrement their counts, and so on recursively. This technique cannot cope with circular data structures. Cells in such structures refer (indirectly) to themselves and so will never have a zero reference count. This means they would never be reclaimed, even when there are no references from outside the structure.
  • refrigerated lorry — a lorry which is chilled in the back as for storing food
  • rufous hummingbird — a reddish-brown hummingbird, Selasphorus rufus, of western North America.
  • 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.
  • safety regulations — regulations or rules that are put in place to ensure a product, event, etc, is safe and not dangerous
  • school of motoring — a centre where people pay for lessons to learn to drive
  • seafloor spreading — a process in which new ocean floor is created as molten material from the earth's mantle rises in margins between plates or ridges and spreads out.
  • secondary offering — the sale of a large block of outstanding stock off the floor of an exchange, usually by a major stockholder.
  • self-comprehending — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
  • 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-interrogation — the act of interrogating; questioning.
  • self-raising flour — flour with baking powder
  • shatterproof glass — glass designed to resist shattering
  • shift one's ground — to change one's argument or defense
  • sign of the zodiac — one of the twelve constellations along the path of the ecliptic.
  • significant symbol — a verbal or nonverbal gesture, as a word or smile, that has acquired a conventionalized meaning.
  • six-finger country — an isolated area considered as being inhabited by people who practise inbreeding
  • sixth-form college — (in England and Wales) a college offering A-level and other courses to pupils over sixteen from local schools, esp from those that do not have sixth forms
  • skin friction drag — aerodynamic resistance or drag due to the contact of moving air with the surface of an airplane, a glider, etc.
  • slip of the tongue — If you describe something you said as a slip of the tongue, you mean that you said it by mistake.
  • 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.
  • solid-fuel heating — heating that uses solid fuel, such as coal or coke
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • stepping-off place — jumping-off place (def 2).
  • stinking goosefoot — a European goosefoot with foul-smelling leaves
  • stirling's formula — a relation that approximates the value of n factorial (n!), expressed as .
  • 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)
  • sugarloaf mountain — a mountain in SE Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, at the entrance to Guanabara Bay. 1280 feet (390 meters).
  • take cognizance of — note, acknowledge
  • tip of the iceberg — a large floating mass of ice, detached from a glacier and carried out to sea.
  • to agree to differ — If two people who are arguing about something agree to disagree or agree to differ, they decide to stop arguing because neither of them is going to change their opinion.
  • to fall from grace — If someone falls from grace, they suddenly stop being successful or popular.
  • to get wind of sth — If you get wind of something, you hear about it, especially when someone else did not want you to know about it.
  • to plough a furrow — If you say that someone ploughs a particular furrow or ploughs their own furrow, you mean that their activities or interests are different or isolated from those of other people.
  • to-ing and fro-ing — If you say that there is a lot of to-ing and fro-ing, you mean that the same actions or movements or the same arguments are being repeated many times.
  • torsion-free group — a group in which every element other than the identity has infinite order.
  • transmogrification — to change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.
  • treaty of waitangi — a treaty signed in 1840 by Māori chiefs and a representative of the British Government, providing the basis for the British annexation of New Zealand
  • 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
  • tune someone grief — to annoy or harass someone
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