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18-letter words containing y, u, r

  • reinsurance treaty — A reinsurance treaty is a contract that defines the terms of reinsurance business.
  • 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.
  • remembrance sunday — the second Sunday in November, which is the Sunday closest to November 11, the anniversary of the armistice of 1918 that ended World War I, on which the dead of both World Wars are commemorated
  • repayment schedule — a document detailing the specific terms of a borrower's loan, such as monthly payment, interest rate, due dates etc
  • reversionary bonus — a bonus added to the sum payable on death or at the maturity of a with-profits assurance policy
  • revolutionary wars — American Revolution.
  • rheims-douay bible — Douay Bible.
  • room occupancy tax — Room occupancy tax is a tax that guests at a hotel have to pay in order to stay there.
  • run in sb's family — If a characteristic runs in someone's family, it often occurs in members of that family, in different generations.
  • run one's eye over — to glance at hurriedly
  • running commentary — non-stop description of sth
  • rural municipality — any lightly settled area in Canada lacking a local elected government and administered directly by a provincial government.
  • safety regulations — regulations or rules that are put in place to ensure a product, event, etc, is safe and not dangerous
  • sampling frequency — sample rate
  • 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.
  • secondary consumer — (in the food chain) a carnivore that feeds only upon herbivores.
  • secondary industry — manufacturing, services, etc.
  • securities analyst — an expert who advises on investment in securities such as stocks, shares and bonds
  • security agreement — business: contract
  • security clearance — access to top secret information
  • security of tenure — (in Britain) the right of a tenant to continue to occupy a dwelling or site unless the landlord obtains a court order for possession of the property or termination of the tenancy agreement
  • shop till you drop — If you shop till you drop, you do a large amount of shopping.
  • 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
  • silvery cinquefoil — any of several plants belonging to the genus Potentilla, of the rose family, having yellow, red, or white five-petaled flowers, as P. reptans (creeping cinquefoil) of the Old World, or P. argentea (silvery cinquefoil) of North America.
  • six-finger country — an isolated area considered as being inhabited by people who practise inbreeding
  • solubility product — the maximum number of undissociated ions, of an electrolyte in a saturated solution, capable at a given temperature of remaining in equilibrium with the undissolved phase of the solution.
  • sound and the fury — a novel (1929) by William Faulkner.
  • spare-part surgery — surgical replacement of defective or damaged organs by transplant or insertion of artificial devices
  • speak for yourself — If you say 'Speak for yourself' when someone has said something, you mean that what they have said is only their opinion or applies only to them.
  • statutory sick pay — the pay an employee is legally entitled to when sick
  • 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).
  • study hall teacher — a teacher who supervises or helps students during a period of time or lesson used for studying
  • submaxillary gland — submandibular gland.
  • subsidiary company — a company whose controlling interest is owned by another company.
  • sulfuric anhydride — sulfur trioxide.
  • summary proceeding — a mode of trial authorized by statute to be held before a judge without the usual full hearing.
  • super royal octavo — a book size, 63⁄4 by 101⁄4 inches
  • super royal quarto — a book size, 101⁄4 by 131⁄2 inches
  • superciliary ridge — browridge.
  • 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.
  • supportive therapy — any treatment, such as the intravenous administration of certain fluids, designed to reinforce or sustain the physiological well-being of a patient
  • surveyor's compass — an instrument used by surveyors for measuring azimuths.
  • surveyor's measure — a system of units of length used in surveying land, based on the surveyor's chain of 66 feet (20.12 meters) and its 100 links of 7.92 inches (20.12 cm).
  • symmetric function — a polynomial in several indeterminates that stays the same under any permutation of the indeterminates.
  • territory of papua — a former territory of Australia, consisting of SE New Guinea and adjacent islands: now part of Papua New Guinea
  • tertiary education — education, following secondary education at a school, at a college or university
  • tertiary structure — the way in which the helixes or beta structures of a polypeptide are folded or arranged into a three-dimensional configuration.
  • testamentary trust — a trust set up under the terms of a will.
  • the fourth of july — a holiday in the United States, traditionally celebrated with fireworks: the day of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776
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