18-letter words containing t, r, u, g
- 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
- saturation bombing — intense area bombing intended to destroy everything in the target area.
- scripting language — a language that is used to write scripts, or executable sections of code that automate tasks.
- security agreement — business: contract
- 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
- shotgun microphone — a directional microphone with a narrow-angle range of sensitivity.
- shugart associates — (company) The disk drive company, founded by Alan F. Shugart, which developed SCSI. Alan left Shugart Associates in 1974 [did he quit or was he fired?]. Shugart Associates was bought, and eventually shut down by Xerox.
- shugart technology — Seagate Technology
- 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
- song without words — a song which only consists of a tune or melody and does not have any lyrics
- sound spectrograph — an electronic device for recording a sound spectogram.
- spare-part surgery — surgical replacement of defective or damaged organs by transplant or insertion of artificial devices
- specimen signature — a signature to be compared to an original signature in order to verify someone's identity
- 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.
- stand one's ground — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
- stirling's formula — a relation that approximates the value of n factorial (n!), expressed as .
- strangeness number — a quantum number, designating the strangeness of an elementary particle, equivalent to the hypercharge minus the baryon number
- structural geology — the branch of geology dealing with the structure and distribution of the rocks that make up the crust of the earth. Also called tectonics. Compare structure (def 7a).
- 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.
- super middleweight — a boxer weighing up to 168 pounds (75.6 kg), between middleweight and light heavyweight.
- 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
- supraorbital ridge — browridge.
- sustaining program — a radio or television program without a commercial sponsor.
- the class struggle — the continual conflict between the capitalist and working classes for economic and political power
- the general public — the people in a society; people in general
- the hunger marches — a number of processions by unemployed workers in the 1930s to protest against unemployment and deprivation
- theodore gericault — (Jean Louis André) Théodore [zhahn lwee ahn-drey tey-aw-dawr] /ʒɑ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈdreɪ teɪ ɔˈdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1791–1824, French painter.
- 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.
- 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.
- to be above ground — to be alive
- to be caught short — If you are caught short or are taken short, you feel a sudden strong need to urinate, especially when you cannot easily find a toilet.
- to gird your loins — If you gird your loins, you prepare to do something difficult or dangerous.
- to grit your teeth — If you grit your teeth, you make up your mind to carry on even if the situation is very difficult.
- to plough a furrow — If you say that someone ploughs a particular furrow or ploughs their own furrow, you mean that their activities or interests are different or isolated from those of other people.
- to spill your guts — if someone spills their guts, they tell you everything about something secret or private
- torsion-free group — a group in which every element other than the identity has infinite order.
- 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.
- ultrasonic testing — the scanning of material with an ultrasonic beam, during which reflections from faults in the material can be detected: a powerful nondestructive test method