18-letter words containing r, u, m, n, e
- running martingale — martingale (def 2).
- sampling frequency — sample rate
- sault sainte marie — the rapids of the St. Marys River, between NE Michigan and Ontario, Canada.
- second triumvirate — the coalition and joint rule of the Roman Empire by Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian, begun in 43 bc
- secondary consumer — (in the food chain) a carnivore that feeds only upon herbivores.
- security agreement — business: contract
- selenium rectifier — a rectifier consisting of laminated plates of metal, usually iron, that have been coated with selenium on one side, with rectification taking place because the flow of electrons from the conductive metal to the selenium occurs more readily than the flow in the opposite direction.
- semicircular canal — any of the three curved tubular canals in the labyrinth of the ear, associated with the sense of equilibrium.
- semiprecious stone — See at semiprecious.
- shotgun microphone — a directional microphone with a narrow-angle range of sensitivity.
- simone de beauvoir — Simone [see-mawn] /siˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), (Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand) 1908–86, French playwright, novelist, and essayist.
- simple enumeration — a procedure for arriving at empirical generalizations by haphazard accumulation of positive instances.
- ski-mountaineering — a combination of the sports of skiing and mountaineering, for example by climbing up a mountain then skiing down it
- sodium bicarbonate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, in powder or granules, NaHCO 3 , usually prepared by the reaction of soda ash with carbon dioxide or obtained from the intermediate product of the Solvay process by purification: used chiefly in the manufacture of sodium salts, baking powder, and beverages, as a laboratory reagent, as a fire extinguisher, and in medicine as an antacid.
- southern cameroons — German Kamerun. a region in W Africa: a German protectorate 1884–1919; divided in 1919 into British and French mandates.
- specimen signature — a signature to be compared to an original signature in order to verify someone's identity
- spur-of-the-moment — occurring or done without advance preparation or deliberation; extemporaneous; unplanned: a spur-of-the-moment decision.
- 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.
- squirting cucumber — a Mediterranean plant, Ecballium elaterium, of the gourd family, whose ripened fruit forcibly ejects the seeds and juice.
- strangeness number — a quantum number, designating the strangeness of an elementary particle, equivalent to the hypercharge minus the baryon number
- strontium monoxide — a white insoluble solid substance used in making strontium salts and purifying sugar. Formula: SrO
- submarine sandwich — a sandwich made with a long cylindrical bread roll
- subsistence farmer — a farmer who consumes most of the produce he grows, leaving little or nothing to be marketed
- summary proceeding — a mode of trial authorized by statute to be held before a judge without the usual full hearing.
- sun-dried tomatoes — tomatoes that have been dried or preserved by exposure to the sun
- super giant slalom — a slalom race in which the course is longer and has more widely spaced gates than in a giant slalom.
- survival mechanism — something you or your body does automatically, in order to survive in a dangerous or unpleasant situation
- symmetric function — a polynomial in several indeterminates that stays the same under any permutation of the indeterminates.
- temporal summation — the act or process of summing.
- testamentary trust — a trust set up under the terms of a will.
- the full treatment — If you say that someone is given the full treatment, you mean either that they are treated extremely well or that they are treated extremely severely.
- the hunger marches — a number of processions by unemployed workers in the 1930s to protest against unemployment and deprivation
- the masurian lakes — a group of lakes in Masuria in NE Poland: scene of Russian defeats by the Germans (1914, 1915) during World War I
- the movie industry — the industry that makes entertainment films or movies
- the uncircumcision — the gentiles
- thermionic current — an electric current produced by the flow of thermions.
- thermoluminescence — phosphorescence produced by the heating of a substance.
- thermonuclear bomb — hydrogen bomb.
- third man argument — (in the philosophy of Aristotle) the argument against the existence of Platonic Forms that since the Form of Man is itself a perfect man, a further form (the "third" man) would be required to explain this, and so ad infinitum
- thought experiment — Physics. a demonstration or calculation that is based on the postulates of a theory, as relativity, and that demonstrates or clarifies the consequences of the postulates.
- to close your mind — If you close your mind to something, you deliberately do not think about it or pay attention to it.
- to speak your mind — If you speak your mind, you say firmly and honestly what you think about a situation, even if this may offend or upset people.
- transfinite number — an infinite cardinal or ordinal number.
- transit instrument — Astronomy. meridian circle.
- trustee investment — an investment in which trustees are authorized to invest money belonging to a trust fund
- tune someone grief — to annoy or harass someone
- two-minute warning — a time-out called by an official to notify both teams that two minutes remain in a half.
- under-compensation — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
- unearned increment — the increase in the value of property, especially land, due to natural causes, as growth of population, rather than to any labor or expenditure by the owner.
- unfair competition — acts done by a seller to confuse or deceive the public with intent to acquire a larger portion of the market, as by cutting prices below cost, misleading advertising, selling a spurious product under a false identity, etc.