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18-letter words containing u, n, h, r

  • parachute regiment — an airborne regiment of an army
  • paraurethral gland — any of a group of vestigial glands located in the posterior wall of the urethra in women.
  • pass the hat round — to collect money, as for a cause
  • phoenician juniper — a type of juniper that is found in the Mediterranean region
  • pitch-and-run shot — chip shot.
  • plumber's merchant — a shop or business that sells things needed for the job of installing and repairing pipes, fixtures, etc, for water, drainage, and gas
  • prepare the ground — make conditions ready
  • prison authorities — the people in charge of running a prison
  • process scheduling — multitasking
  • prometheus unbound — a drama in verse (1820) by Shelley.
  • pseudo-anarchistic — a person who advocates or believes in anarchy or anarchism.
  • puerto rico trench — a depression in the ocean floor, N of Puerto Rico: includes deepest part of Atlantic Ocean, 28,374 feet (8648 meters).
  • pulp canal therapy — endodontics.
  • purchasing officer — the member of staff in an organization who is responsible for buying goods or products
  • puss in the corner — a parlor game for children in which one player in the middle of a room tries to occupy any of the positions along the walls that become vacant as other players dash across to exchange places at a signal.
  • put one's shirt on — to bet all one has on (a horse, etc)
  • put the mockers on — stop, thwart
  • pyramus and thisbe — (in Greek legend) two lovers of Babylon: Pyramus, wrongly supposing Thisbe to be dead, killed himself and she, encountering him in his death throes, did the same
  • quite the contrary — not at all, the very opposite
  • ready when you are — If you say to someone 'Ready when you are', you are telling them that you are now ready to do something and that as soon as they are ready, you will do it.
  • regular hexahedron — a solid cube with six square faces
  • repayment schedule — a document detailing the specific terms of a borrower's loan, such as monthly payment, interest rate, due dates etc
  • return to the fold — come back home
  • roman architecture — buildings in style of ancient Rome
  • rubbish collection — the collection of domestic refuse for disposal
  • rufous hummingbird — a reddish-brown hummingbird, Selasphorus rufus, of western North America.
  • run length limited — (storage)   (RLL) The most popular scheme for encoding data on magnetic disks. RLL packs up to 50% more data on a disk than MFM. Groups of bits are mapped to specific patterns of flux. The density of flux transitions is limited by the spatial resolution of the disk and frequency response of the head and electronics. However, transitions must be close enough to allow reliable clock recovery. RLL implementations vary according to the minimum and maximum allowed numbers of transition cells between transitions. For example, the most common variant today, RLL 1,7, can have a transition in every other cell and must have at least one transition every seven cells. The exact mapping from bits to transitions is essentially arbitrary. Other schemes include GCR, FM, Modified Frequency Modulation (MFM). See also: PRML.
  • runge-kutta method — a numerical method, involving successive approximations, used to solve differential equations.
  • schwarz inequality — Also called Cauchy's inequality. the theorem that the inner product of two vectors is less than or equal to the product of the magnitudes of the vectors.
  • scottish deerhound — one of a Scottish breed of large, tall hunting dogs having a medium-length, wiry, gray or reddish-fawn coat, originally developed for hunting and bringing down deer, and known as the royal dog of Scotland.
  • scruff of the neck — If someone takes you by the scruff of the neck, they take hold of the back of your neck or collar suddenly and roughly.
  • shift one's ground — to change one's argument or defense
  • shotgun microphone — a directional microphone with a narrow-angle range of sensitivity.
  • shrubby cinquefoil — a small shrub, Potentilla fruticosa, of the rose family, native to the Northern temperate region, having pinnate leaves and numerous, showy, bright-yellow flowers.
  • shugart technology — Seagate Technology
  • shunting operation — an operation in which rail coaches are manoeuvred
  • song without words — a song which only consists of a tune or melody and does not have any lyrics
  • sound and the fury — a novel (1929) by William Faulkner.
  • sound spectrograph — an electronic device for recording a sound spectogram.
  • southern cameroons — German Kamerun. a region in W Africa: a German protectorate 1884–1919; divided in 1919 into British and French mandates.
  • southern rhodesian — a former name (until 1964) of Zimbabwe (def 1).
  • spur-of-the-moment — occurring or done without advance preparation or deliberation; extemporaneous; unplanned: a spur-of-the-moment decision.
  • standard schnauzer — schnauzer.
  • store launch event — A store launch event is a special event, which publicizes the opening of a new store and at which discounts and free samples may be offered.
  • sub-saharan africa — the region of Africa to the south of the Sahara desert
  • submarine sandwich — a sandwich made with a long cylindrical bread roll
  • sulfuric anhydride — sulfur trioxide.
  • 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.
  • survival mechanism — something you or your body does automatically, in order to survive in a dangerous or unpleasant situation
  • teacher evaluation — the process of vetting teachers to maintain teaching standards
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