21-letter words containing a, p, u, n, t
- symphonie fantastique — a programmatic symphony (1830–31) in five movements by Hector Berlioz.
- temperature inversion — inversion (def 12).
- tenure track position — a position or office that carries with it the opportunity to eventually obtain tenure or the right to permanent employment
- therapeutic community — a group-based form of therapy for mental disorders, sometimes residential
- third-party insurance — insurance that compensates for a loss to a party other than the insured for which the insured is liable.
- trustee in bankruptcy — a person appointed by a court to administer the property of a bankrupt.
- turn up one's nose at — to sneer at; scorn
- ulster unionist party — a Northern Irish political party advocating the maintenance of union with the UK
- uncertainty principle — the principle of quantum mechanics, formulated by Heisenberg, that the accurate measurement of one of two related, observable quantities, as position and momentum or energy and time, produces uncertainties in the measurement of the other, such that the product of the uncertainties of both quantities is equal to or greater than h/ 2 π, where h equals Planck's constant.
- west university place — a city in SE Texas.
- whip-and-tongue graft — a graft prepared by cutting both the scion and the stock in a sloping direction and inserting a tongue in the scion into a slit in the stock.
- white-knuckle paddler — an inexpert and timid canoeist.
- xeroderma pigmentosum — a rare inherited disease characterized by sensitivity to ultraviolet light, exposure resulting in lesions and tumors of the skin and eyes.