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18-letter words containing a, l, u

  • superciliary ridge — browridge.
  • supraorbital ridge — browridge.
  • surgical appliance — a specialized device used by somebody to relieve a particular medical condition
  • survival mechanism — something you or your body does automatically, in order to survive in a dangerous or unpleasant situation
  • sutton-in-ashfield — a market town in N central England, in W Nottinghamshire. Pop: 41 951 (2001)
  • talk a blue streak — speak rapidly and incessantly
  • teacher evaluation — the process of vetting teachers to maintain teaching standards
  • technical knockout — the termination of a bout by the referee when it is the judgment of the attending physician, a boxer's seconds, or the referee that a boxer cannot continue fighting without sustaining severe or disabling injury. Abbreviation: TKO, T.K.O.
  • tele-communication — Sometimes, telecommunication. (used with a singular verb) the transmission of information, as words, sounds, or images, usually over great distances, in the form of electromagnetic signals, as by telegraph, telephone, radio, or television.
  • telecommunications — Sometimes, telecommunication. (used with a singular verb) the transmission of information, as words, sounds, or images, usually over great distances, in the form of electromagnetic signals, as by telegraph, telephone, radio, or television.
  • temporal summation — the act or process of summing.
  • the beautiful game — football
  • the black mountain — a mountain range in S Wales, in E Carmarthenshire and W Powys. Highest peak: Carmarthen Van, 802 m (2632 ft)
  • the blue hen state — a nickname for the state of Delaware
  • the class struggle — the continual conflict between the capitalist and working classes for economic and political power
  • the final solution — the code name used by the Nazis to refer to the plan of mass murder of the Jews
  • the full treatment — If you say that someone is given the full treatment, you mean either that they are treated extremely well or that they are treated extremely severely.
  • the general public — the people in a society; people in general
  • the masurian lakes — a group of lakes in Masuria in NE Poland: scene of Russian defeats by the Germans (1914, 1915) during World War I
  • the south atlantic — the part of the Atlantic Ocean that lies to the south of the equator
  • the sun also rises — a novel (1926) by Ernest Hemingway.
  • the-master-builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • theater of cruelty — a form of surrealist theater originated by Antonin Artaud and emphasizing the cruelty of human existence by portraying sadistic acts and intense suffering.
  • theatre of cruelty — a type of theatre advocated by Antonin Artaud in Le Théâtre et son double that seeks to communicate to its audience a sense of pain, suffering, and evil, using gesture, movement, sound, and symbolism rather than language
  • theodore gericault — (Jean Louis André) Théodore [zhahn lwee ahn-drey tey-aw-dawr] /ʒɑ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈdreɪ teɪ ɔˈdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1791–1824, French painter.
  • thermonuclear bomb — hydrogen bomb.
  • thiosulphuric acid — an unstable acid known only in solutions and in the form of its salts. Formula: H2S2O3
  • to bare one's soul — If you bare your soul, you tell someone your most secret thoughts and feelings.
  • to find fault with — If you find fault with something or someone, you look for mistakes and complain about them.
  • to hold your peace — If you hold or keep your peace, you do not speak, even though there is something you want or ought to say.
  • to play favourites — to display favouritism
  • 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 pull a fast one — If you say that someone has pulled a fast one on you, you mean that they have cheated or tricked you.
  • to take the plunge — If you take the plunge, you decide to do something that you consider difficult or risky.
  • touch-in-goal line — either of the two touchlines at each end of the field between the goal line and the dead-ball line.
  • tranquillizer dart — a dart filled with a tranquillizer that is shot from a gun in order to temporarily sedate an animal so that it may be handled safely
  • traveller's cheque — Traveller's cheques are cheques that you buy at a bank and take with you when you travel, for example so that you can exchange them for the currency of the country that you are in.
  • tristan und isolde — a music drama (composed, 1857–59; première, 1865) by Richard Wagner.
  • tristimulus values — three values that together are used to describe a colour and are the amounts of three reference colours that can be mixed to give the same visual sensation as the colour considered
  • truck center plate — one of a pair of plates that fit together and support the body of a car on a truck, while allowing the truck to rotate with respect to the body. One plate (body center plate) is attached to the underside of the car body and the other (truck center plate) is part of the car truck.
  • turbine ventilator — a ventilator, usually mounted on the roof of a building, deck of a ship, etc., having at its head a globular, vaned rotor that is rotated by the wind, conveying air through a duct to and from a chamber below.
  • ulcerative colitis — chronic ulceration in the large intestine, characterized by painful abdominal cramps and profuse diarrhea containing pus, blood, and mucus.
  • ultralow frequency — an electromagnetic wave with a frequency between 300 and 3000 hertz. Abbreviation: ULF, ulf.
  • 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
  • ultrasonic welding — the use of high-energy vibration of ultrasonic frequency to produce a weld between two components which are held in close contact
  • ultrasound scanner — a device used to examine an internal bodily structure by the use of ultrasonic waves, esp for the diagnosis of abnormality in a fetus
  • ultraviolet filter — a filter used on a lens to absorb ultraviolet radiation that may impart an undesirable blue cast to a photograph.
  • unconstitutionally — not constitutional; unauthorized by or inconsistent with the constitution, as of a country.
  • under (one's) seal — in a document authenticated by one's seal
  • under lock and key — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
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