18-letter words containing r, e, g, n, a, t
- project management — leadership of a task or programme
- psychogalvanometer — a type of galvanometer for detecting and measuring psychogalvanic currents.
- quantity surveying — the action or profession of a person who estimates the cost of the materials and labour necessary for a construction job
- racial segregation — social policy: separation of races
- radioactive 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.
- 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.
- range of stability — the angle to the perpendicular through which a vessel may be heeled without losing the ability to right itself.
- 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
- reduction strategy — (theory) An algorithm for deciding which redex(es) to reduce next. Different strategies have different termination properties in the presence of recursive functions or values. See string reduction, normal order reduction, applicative order reduction, parallel reduction
- regional enteritis — Crohn's disease.
- registered company — a company which has officially registered its business
- registration plate — a plate mounted on the front and back of a motor vehicle bearing the registration number
- relational algebra — (database, theory) A family of algebra with a well-founded semantics used for modelling the data stored in relational databases, and defining queries on it. The main operations of the relational algebra are the set operations (such as union, intersection, and cartesian product), selection (keeping only some lines of a table) and the projection (keeping only some columns). The relational data model describes how the data is structured.
- 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)
- reprocessing plant — a plant where materials are treated in order to make them reusable
- residual magnetism — remanence.
- resistance fighter — someone who fights (for freedom, etc) against an invader in an occupied country, or against their government, etc, often secretly or illegally
- resistance welding — welding utilizing pressure and heat that is generated in the pieces to be welded by resistance to an electric current.
- restraining circle — any of three circles on the floor of a basketball court used for jump balls: other players must remain outside the circle during a jump ball
- retrograde amnesia — a memory disorder characterized by an inability to remember events or experiences that occurred before a significant point in time.
- reverse angle shot — Movies. reverse shot.
- risk based testing — (testing) Testing based on identification of potential risks (or "candidate risks"), which should be analysed by the project stakeholder or which might appear during the project's development.
- rolling resistance — The rolling resistance of a wheel or ball is its resistance to movement caused by friction between it and the surface it is rolling on.
- 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).
- safety regulations — regulations or rules that are put in place to ensure a product, event, etc, is safe and not dangerous
- saint george's day — April 23, celebrated in parts of the British Commonwealth in honor of the patron saint of Britain and especially in New Zealand as a bank holiday.
- 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
- scripting language — a language that is used to write scripts, or executable sections of code that automate tasks.
- secretarial agency — a recruiting business which deals with jobs for secretaries
- security agreement — business: contract
- self-deprecatingly — in a self-deprecating manner
- self-disparagement — the act of disparaging.
- 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-interrogation — the act of interrogating; questioning.
- self-tapping screw — a screw designed to tap its corresponding female thread as it is driven.
- self-understanding — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
- shipping container — a large, strong container, usually of metal, used to store goods in during shipment
- shugart technology — Seagate Technology
- shunting operation — an operation in which rail coaches are manoeuvred
- ski-mountaineering — a combination of the sports of skiing and mountaineering, for example by climbing up a mountain then skiing down it
- snake in the grass — a treacherous person, especially one who feigns friendship.