"residual" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is left over after a process or activity has finished. For example, "After the storm had passed, there was a residual layer of dust and debris on the ground."
"There's no special backlash going on now, other than maybe the residual effect of resentment after 12 Years A Slave.
Critics will claim councils are being forced to sell their best property, and reducing council property in England into residual housing for the poor as a result.
Backed by the government-funded Quilliam Foundation and their media cheerleaders, the neocons have pressed tirelessly to end residual official engagement with mainstream nonviolent Islamist groups, hitherto aimed at isolating the genuinely extreme groups actually in the business of blowing up buses and tubes.
When the chocolate is half melted, turn the heat off and nudge the solid parts into the melted parts, letting it continue to melt in the residual heat.
Cameron, still displaying signs of residual pump, continued his absurd quest to turn "stubby pencil" into his "Ooh Betty", while reluctantly hopping about on the stage like a circus bear on an electrified plate.
I have lost count of the number of references to this residual economic statistic that for decades hardly rated a mention in the press.
Nonetheless, tying the tax on the banks' bonus payments to the IMF/ECB rescue plan demonstrates that there is still some residual strategic thinking within the Fianna Fáil high command.
"Any reaction or protest needs to be both peaceful and lawful, as called for by unionist leaders in their statement today [Thursday]." The exit of the Democratic Unionist party and Ulster Unionist party on Thursday has more than likely doomed the talks process aimed at clearing up residual issues that remain unsolved in the power-sharing and peace settlement in Northern Ireland.
In Milan, was I imagining the residual raptures of 15th-century Christians?
And though, having grown up on them (before graduating to the spicy heights of the chicken tikka masala), I have to admit a certain residual fondness for the almost marzipan-like flavours of a classic British curry house korma, I think we're all big enough now to appreciate the more sophisticated flavours of the real deal.
People involved in drafting the bill said there was nervousness about including more victim-friendly measures, because of the residual public confusion over victims of trafficking and immigrants.
