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18-letter words containing t, r, i, n, g

  • self-understanding — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
  • shift one's ground — to change one's argument or defense
  • shipping container — a large, strong container, usually of metal, used to store goods in during shipment
  • shotgun microphone — a directional microphone with a narrow-angle range of sensitivity.
  • shunting operation — an operation in which rail coaches are manoeuvred
  • six-finger country — an isolated area considered as being inhabited by people who practise inbreeding
  • ski-mountaineering — a combination of the sports of skiing and mountaineering, for example by climbing up a mountain then skiing down it
  • skin friction drag — aerodynamic resistance or drag due to the contact of moving air with the surface of an airplane, a glider, etc.
  • sling psychrometer — a psychrometer so designed that the wet-bulb thermometer can be ventilated, to expedite evaporation, by whirling in the air.
  • snake in the grass — a treacherous person, especially one who feigns friendship.
  • societal marketing — marketing that takes into account society's long-term welfare
  • something or other — sth not remembered precisely
  • something to spare — a surplus of something
  • song without words — a song which only consists of a tune or melody and does not have any lyrics
  • specimen signature — a signature to be compared to an original signature in order to verify someone's identity
  • speech recognition — Computers. the computerized analysis of spoken words in order to identify the speaker, as in security systems, or to respond to voiced commands: the analysis is performed by finding patterns in the spectrum of the incoming sound and comparing them with stored patterns of elements of sound, as phones, or of complete words.
  • spherical triangle — a triangle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • steering committee — a committee, especially of a deliberative or legislative body, charged with preparing the agenda of a session.
  • 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)
  • strathclyde region — a former local government region in W Scotland: formed in 1975 from Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire, Buteshire, Dunbartonshire, and parts of Argyllshire, Ayrshire, and Stirlingshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Glasgow, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Argyll and Bute, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and East Ayrshire
  • strong derived set — the set of all strong accumulation points of a given set.
  • strong interaction — the interaction between gluons and between gluons and quarks that is responsible for the strong force.
  • sugarloaf mountain — a mountain in SE Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, at the entrance to Guanabara Bay. 1280 feet (390 meters).
  • super giant slalom — a slalom race in which the course is longer and has more widely spaced gates than in a giant slalom.
  • superstring theory — any supersymmetric string theory in which each type of elementary particle is treated as a vibration of a single fundamental string (superstring) at a particular frequency.
  • supporting actress — an actress playing a supporting role
  • sustaining program — a radio or television program without a commercial sponsor.
  • swarm intelligence — the collective behaviour of a group of animals, esp social insects such as ants, bees, and termites, that are each following very basic rules
  • sweptwing aircraft — an aircraft which has wings that are swept (usually) backwards
  • sympathetic string — a thin wire string, as in various obsolete musical instruments, designed to vibrate sympathetically with the bowed or plucked strings to reinforce the sound.
  • synthetic geometry — elementary geometry, as distinct from analytic geometry.
  • system-programming — a program, as an operating system, compiler, or utility program, that controls some aspect of the operation of a computer (opposed to application program).
  • technical sergeant — a noncommissioned officer ranking below a master sergeant and above a staff sergeant.
  • tender loving care — considerate and kindly care, as of someone who is ill, upset, etc
  • the electronic age — the electronic age began when electronic equipment, including computers came into use
  • the general public — the people in a society; people in general
  • the grand national — an annual steeplechase run at Aintree, Liverpool, since 1839
  • the major rogation — April 25, observed by Christians as a day of solemn supplication for the harvest and marked by processions, special prayers, and blessing of the crops
  • the nether regions — the genitals
  • there you go again — Phrases such as there you go again are used to show annoyance at someone who is repeating something that has annoyed you in the past.
  • there's no telling — You use there's no telling to introduce a statement when you want to say that it is impossible to know what will happen in a situation.
  • thin on the ground — If people or things of a particular kind are thin on the ground, there are very few of them.
  • 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.
  • three-day eventing — participation in a three day equestrian competition consisting of dressage, cross-country jumping, and stadium jumping
  • to a grinding halt — If you describe a bad situation as grinding, you mean it never gets better, changes, or ends.
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