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22-letter words containing a, s, u

  • a blessing in disguise — If you say that something is a blessing in disguise, you mean that it causes problems and difficulties at first but later you realize that it was the best thing that could have happened.
  • a bull in a china shop — You say that someone is like a bull in a china shop when they are very clumsy.
  • a lump in one's throat — a tight dry feeling in one's throat, usually caused by great emotion
  • absolute configuration — the spatial arrangement of atoms or groups in a chemical compound about an asymmetric atom
  • accident-free discount — An accident-free discount is a discount on insurance payments that is available to drivers who have no accidents where they are at fault over a particular period of time.
  • account representative — (job)   A person in a company who identifies new accounts, analyses customer needs, proposes business solutions, negotiates and oversees the implementation of new projects.
  • acoustic spectrography — a technique for analyzing sound by separating it into its component frequencies.
  • acquisition accounting — an accounting procedure in which the assets of a company that has recently been taken over are changed from the book value to the fair market value
  • against the run of sth — If something happens against the run of play or against the run of events, it is different from what is generally happening in a game or situation.
  • aggressive accountancy — the falsification of a company's accounts to give an unduly favourable impression of its financial position
  • agro-industrialization — to industrialize the agriculture of: to agro-industrialize a developing nation.
  • alarums and excursions — a stage direction, esp. in Elizabethan drama, for a scene depicting a battle
  • ali muhammad of shiraz — (the Bab; Ali Muhammad of Shiraz) 1819–50, a Persian religious leader: founder of Bābī.
  • american sign language — a language consisting of manual signs and gestures, used as by deaf people in North America
  • an ace up one's sleeve — a hidden and powerful advantage
  • angle-closure glaucoma — Ophthalmology. abnormally high fluid pressure in the eye, most commonly caused either by blockage of the channel through which aqueous humor drains (open-angle glaucoma or chronic glaucoma) or by pressure of the iris against the lens, which traps the aqueous humor (angle-closure glaucoma or acute glaucoma)
  • arseniuretted hydrogen — arsine (def 1).
  • articulatory phonetics — the branch of phonetics concerned with the production of speech sounds
  • attributed file system — (storage)   (AtFS) The basis of the Shape_VC toolkit. Cooperative work within projects is supported by a status model controlling visibility of version objects, locking, and "long transactions" for synchronising concurrent updates. The concept of object attributes provides a basis for storing management information with versions and passing this information between individual tools. This mechanism is useful for building integrated environments from a set of unrelated tools.
  • automatic send receive — (hardware)   (ASR) Part of a designation for a hard-copy terminal, manufactured by Teletype Corporation, which could be commanded remotely to send the contents of its paper tape reader. The ASR-33 was the most common minicomputer terminal in the early 1970s.
  • automatic transmission — A car that is fitted with automatic transmission has a gear system in which the gears change automatically.
  • bacillus thuringiensis — a bacterium used in genetically altered form in the biological control of budworms, gypsy moth larvae, Japanese beetles, and other insect pests. Abbreviation: B.t.
  • balance sheet equation — A balance sheet equation is a basic accounting equation that states that assets equal liabilities plus equity.
  • bank deposit insurance — the protection of bank deposits against the insolvency of banks in the U.S., up to a specified maximum per account that is revised periodically, under special insurance through the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
  • bankrupt's certificate — a document given to a bankrupt with the consent of their creditors, stating that the bankrupt has disclosed and surrendered all his property
  • bankruptcy proceedings — the legal business of a bankruptcy case
  • basal body temperature — the lowest temperature the body reaches in the resting state, typically during sleep. It is usually measured on waking
  • beat someone to a pulp — If someone is beaten to a pulp or beaten to pulp, they are hit repeatedly until they are very badly injured.
  • beats the shit outa me — (exclamation)   (BSOM) "I don't understand it". The last thing you say as you walk out on someone whose system you can't fix.
  • being from outer space — a monster; an imaginary creature
  • benoit de sainte-maure — 12th-century French trouvère: author of the Roman de Troie, which contains the episode of Troilus and Cressida
  • bereavement counsellor — a person giving advice to bereaved people to help them cope with their grief
  • bernoulli's lemniscate — Analytic Geometry. lemniscate.
  • better business bureau — any of a nationwide system of local organizations, supported by business, whose function is to receive and investigate customer complaints of dishonest business practices. Abbreviation: BBB.
  • black mercuric sulfide — a crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous compound, HgS, occurring as a coarse, black powder (black mercuric sulfide) or as a fine, bright-scarlet powder (red mercuric sulfide) used chiefly as a pigment and as a source of the free metal.
  • black-scholes equation — a partial differential equation used to estimate the changing value of an option over time
  • bridge of san luis rey — a novel (1927) by Thornton Wilder.
  • calculus of variations — a branch of calculus concerned with maxima and minima of definite integrals
  • carboxymethylcellulose — a white, water-soluble polymer derived from cellulose, used as a coating and sizing for paper and textiles, a stabilizer for various foods, and an appetite suppressor.
  • carpal tunnel syndrome — a condition characterized by pain and tingling in the fingers, caused by pressure on a nerve as it passes under the ligament situated across the front of the wrist
  • catch/take sb unawares — If something catches you unawares or takes you unawares, it happens when you are not expecting it.
  • cavity wall insulation — insulation injected into the space between cavity walls
  • central nervous system — Your central nervous system is the part of your nervous system that consists of the brain and spinal cord.
  • chebyshev's inequality — the fundamental theorem that the probability that a random variable differs from its mean by more than k standard deviations is less than or equal to 1/k2
  • checkout test language — (language)   (CTL)
  • chinese army technique — Mongolian Hordes technique
  • chinese water chestnut — a Chinese cyperaceous plant, Eleocharis tuberosa, with an edible succulent corm
  • comma separated values — (file format)   (CSV) A file format used as a portable representation of a database. Each line is one entry or record and the fields in a record are separated by commas. Commas may be followed by arbitrary space and/or tab characters which are ignored. If field includes a comma, the whole field must be surrounded with double quotes.
  • common snapping turtle — a large aggressive North American river turtle, Chelydra serpentina, having powerful hooked jaws and a rough shell
  • communication channels — the ways in which people communicate

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