18-letter words containing p, i, l, a, g, n
- 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.
- self-deprecatingly — in a self-deprecating manner
- self-disparagement — the act of disparaging.
- self-tapping screw — a screw designed to tap its corresponding female thread as it is driven.
- sleeping policeman — a bump built across roads, esp in housing estates, to deter motorists from speeding
- spackling compound — spackle
- spherical triangle — a triangle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
- stepping-off place — jumping-off place (def 2).
- super giant slalom — a slalom race in which the course is longer and has more widely spaced gates than in a giant slalom.
- surgical appliance — a specialized device used by somebody to relieve a particular medical condition
- the general public — the people in a society; people in general
- 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.
- unit magnetic pole — the unit of magnetic pole strength equal to the strength of a magnetic pole that repels a similar pole with a force of one dyne, the two poles being placed in a vacuum and separated by a distance of one centimeter.
- universal coupling — a coupling between rotating shafts set at an angle to one another, allowing for rotation in three planes.
- whispering gallery — a space or gallery beneath a dome or broad arch in which low sounds produced at any of certain points are clearly audible at certain other distant points.