18-letter words containing r, u, f

lean manufacturing — efficiency in the production of goods
left-eyed flounder — any of several flat-fishes of the family Bothidae, having both eyes on the left side of the head.
like a house afire — a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
lord chief justice — the presiding judge of Britain's High Court of Justice, the superior court of record for both criminal and civil cases.
manufactured goods — products made by machine
manufacturing base — the manufacturing industries of an area or a country considered as a unit and a constituent part of the economy
marsilius of padua — c1280–1343? Italian scholar and political theorist.
milkweed butterfly — monarch butterfly.
mixed-flow turbine — a water turbine in which water flows radially and axially through the rotating vanes
modulus of torsion — a coefficient of elasticity of a substance, expressing the ratio between the force per unit area (shearing stress) that laterally deforms the substance and the shear (shearing strain) that is produced by this force.
multiflow computer — (company) A now-defunct computer company, best known for its work in Very Long Instruction Word processors. Address: New Haven, Conn. USA.
neural tube defect — any of a group of congenital abnormalities involving the brain and spinal cord, including spina bifida and meningocele, caused by failure of the neural tube to close properly during embryonic development.
no-fault insurance — Also called no-fault insurance. a form of automobile insurance designed to enable the policyholder in case of an accident to collect a certain basic compensation promptly for economic loss from his or her own insurance company without determination of liability.
nursery facilities — places where young children are looked after
of your own making — If you say that something such as a problem you have is of your own making, you mean you have caused or created it yourself.
one of sb's number — One of your number is a member of your group.
order of australia — an order awarded to Australians for outstanding achievement or for service to Australia or to humanity at large; established in 1975
order of magnitude — You can use order of magnitude when you are giving an approximate idea of the amount or importance of something.
out of circulation — If someone is out of circulation, they do not appear in public or at social gatherings for a period of time. You can also say that someone is out of circulation when they are in prison.
out of the running — the act of a person, animal, or thing that runs.
par for the course — an equality in value or standing; a level of equality: The gains and the losses are on a par.
particulate filter — A particulate filter is a filter to remove particles that are present the air, for example in the exhaust of a diesel engine.
perceptual defence — the process by which it is thought that certain stimuli are either not perceived or are distorted due to their offensive, unpleasant, or threatening nature
percussion flaking — a method of forming a flint tool by striking flakes from a stone core with another stone or a piece of bone or wood.
perfect continuous — perfect progressive.
point of departure — Nautical. the precise location of a vessel, established in order to set a course, especially in beginning a voyage in open water.
point of no return — Aviation. the point in a flight at which an aircraft will lack sufficient fuel to return to its starting point.
population figures — population totals; statistics relating to the size of populations
potassium fluoride — a white, crystalline, hygroscopic, toxic powder, KF, used chiefly as an insecticide, a disinfectant, and in etching glass.
prefect of studies — a senior master in a Jesuit school or college
presumption of law — a presumption based upon a policy of law or a general rule and not upon the facts or evidence in an individual case.
product life cycle — the four stages (introduction, growth, maturity, and decline) into one of which the sales of a product fall during its market life
programme of study — the prescribed syllabus that pupils must be taught at each key stage in the National Curriculum
provably difficult — The set or property of problems for which it can be proven that no polynomial-time algorithm exists, only exponential-time algorithms.
purchasing officer — the member of staff in an organization who is responsible for buying goods or products
purple loosestrife — an Old World plant, Lythrum salicaria, of the loosestrife family, widely naturalized in North America, growing in wet places and having spikes of reddish-purple flowers.
put your foot down — If someone puts their foot down, they use their authority in order to stop something happening.
quality of service — (communications, networking) (QoS) The performance properties of a network service, possibly including throughput, transit delay, priority. Some protocols allow packets or streams to include QoS requirements.
quarry-tiled floor — a floor covered with square or diamond-shaped unglazed floor tiles
quarterlife crisis — a crisis that may be experienced in one's twenties, involving anxiety over the direction and quality of one's life
quick off the mark — If you are quick off the mark, you are quick to understand or respond to something. If you are slow off the mark, you are slow to understand or respond to something.
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.
recruiting officer — a person whose job is to recruit staff, esp on behalf of the military
recursive function — a function defined in terms of the repeated application of a number of simpler functions to their own values, by specifying a base clause and a recursion formula
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.
relative frequency — the ratio of the number of times an event occurs to the number of occasions on which it might occur in the same period.
reproduction proof — repro proof.
return to the fold — come back home
return-flue boiler — a fire-tube boiler having flues that collect the combustion gases at the end of the boiler opposite the fire door and pass them through the boiler to an uptake above the fire door.
room for manoeuvre — If you have room for manoeuvre, you have the opportunity to change your plans if it becomes necessary or desirable.

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