18-letter words containing nc
- prince of darkness — Satan.
- principal argument — the radian measure of the argument between −π and π of a complex number. Compare argument (def 8c).
- principal diagonal — a diagonal line or plane.
- principal meridian — a meridian line accurately laid out to serve as the reference meridian in land survey
- product acceptance — the verification or acceptance that a manufactured item meets required specifications or standards and is usable for its purpose
- property insurance — insurance coverage for land and housing
- protein deficiency — a lack or insuffiency of protein
- proton synchrotron — a synchrotron used for accelerating protons.
- provincetown print — a print made from a woodblock incised with grooves that serve to separate the colors being used and to leave white lines highlighting the design.
- provincial council — (formerly) a council administering any of the New Zealand provinces
- public convenience — a rest room, especially at a large public place, as at a railroad station.
- puerto rico trench — a depression in the ocean floor, N of Puerto Rico: includes deepest part of Atlantic Ocean, 28,374 feet (8648 meters).
- pull one's punches — to restrain the force of one's criticisms or actions
- quantum efficiency — the number of electrons released by a photocell per photon of incident radiation of a given energy
- rabbit-proof fence — a fence through which rabbits are unable to pass
- radiant efficiency — the ratio of the power emitted by a source of radiation to the power consumed by it
- reconnaissance car — a specially equipped and armed car used for making military reconnaissance.
- recruitment agency — company that places job candidates
- recursive function — a function defined in terms of the repeated application of a number of simpler functions to their own values, by specifying a base clause and a recursion formula
- redundancy payment — a sum of money given by an employer to an employee who has been made redundant: usually calculated on the basis of the employee's rate of pay and length of service
- reference counting — (programming) A garbage collection technique where each memory cell contains a count of the number of other cells which point to it. If this count reaches zero the cell is freed and its pointers to other cells are followed to decrement their counts, and so on recursively. This technique cannot cope with circular data structures. Cells in such structures refer (indirectly) to themselves and so will never have a zero reference count. This means they would never be reclaimed, even when there are no references from outside the structure.
- 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
- renter's insurance — Renter's insurance is insurance for renters to insure their property against loss.
- repeat performance — sth done again
- resistance fighter — someone who fights (for freedom, etc) against an invader in an occupied country, or against their government, etc, often secretly or illegally
- resistance plasmid — any of a group of bacterial plasmids carrying genetic information that provide resistance to antibiotic drugs: some resistance plasmids are able to transfer themselves, and hence resistance, during conjugation
- resistance welding — welding utilizing pressure and heat that is generated in the pieces to be welded by resistance to an electric current.
- rolling resistance — The rolling resistance of a wheel or ball is its resistance to movement caused by friction between it and the surface it is rolling on.
- room occupancy tax — Room occupancy tax is a tax that guests at a hotel have to pay in order to stay there.
- rotational latency — (storage, hardware) The time for the start of the required sector on a disk to appear underneath the read/write head. The worst case is where it has just passed the head when the request is received. For a disk drive with N heads per surface, rotating at R revolutions per minute, the average rotational latency will be L = 30/NR seconds. Rotational latency is one component of access time.
- saint vitus' dance — chorea (def 2).
- sampling frequency — sample rate
- science dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering terms in the life, earth, and physical sciences, such as the online Science Dictionary on Dictionary.com. A science dictionary includes many technical terms with precise, specialized meanings—terms not normally found in general dictionaries—making it an invaluable resource for students and professionals in scientific fields.
- secondary deviance — deviant behavior that results from being publicly labeled as deviant and treated as an outsider.
- secretarial agency — a recruiting business which deals with jobs for secretaries
- security clearance — access to top secret information
- self-incriminating — serving to incriminate oneself or to expose oneself to prosecution: self-incriminating testimony.
- self-incrimination — the act of incriminating oneself or exposing oneself to prosecution, especially by giving evidence or testimony.
- self-transcendence — the quality or state of being transcendent.
- sentence connector — a word or phrase that introduces a clause or sentence and serves as a transition between it and a previous clause or sentence, as for example also in I'm buying eggs and also I'm looking for a dessert for tonight. It may be preceded by a coordinating conjunction such as and in the above example
- sentence structure — syntax
- sequence of tenses — the sequence according to which the tense of a subordinate verb in a sentence is determined by the tense of the principal verb, as in I believe he is lying, I believed he was lying, etc
- sickness insurance — a type of insurance which pays out if you become ill
- sierra blanca peak — a mountain in S New Mexico: highest peak in the Sacramento Mountains. 11,997 feet (3651 meters).
- significance level — (in the statistical test of a hypothesis) the maximum probability of a Type I error for all distributions consistent with the null hypothesis.
- sinclair radionics — Sinclair Research
- spaghetti junction — an interchange, usually between motorways, in which there are a large number of underpasses and overpasses and intersecting roads used by a large volume of high-speed traffic
- st. lawrence river — a river in SE Canada, flowing NE from Lake Ontario, forming part of the boundary between New York and Ontario, and emptying into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 760 miles (1225 km) long.