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21-letter words containing c, h, u, n

  • satisficing behaviour — the form of behaviour demonstrated by firms who seek satisfactory profits and satisfactory growth rather than maximum profits
  • school superintendent — an official whose job is to oversee school administration within a district
  • she stoops to conquer — a comedy (1773) by Oliver Goldsmith.
  • sherman antitrust act — an act of Congress (1890) prohibiting any contract, conspiracy, or combination of business interests in restraint of foreign or interstate trade.
  • short circuit current — A short circuit current is an overcurrent resulting from a short circuit.
  • snr bandwidth product — (communications)   The integral of the SNR over frequency. The SNR bandwidth product is an important limit in the capacity of a communication channel.
  • south pacific current — an ocean current that flows E in the South Pacific Ocean parallel to the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
  • sunday school teacher — someone who teaches at a Sunday school
  • synchronous converter — a synchronous machine for converting alternating current to direct current, or vice versa, in which the armature winding is connected to collector rings and to a commutator.
  • take the consequences — to accept the results of one's actions
  • tartarian honeysuckle — an Asian honeysuckle, Lonicera tatarica, having fragrant, white to pink flowers.
  • the (norman) conquest — the conquering of England by the Normans under William the Conqueror in 1066
  • the best of the bunch — If you say someone or something is the best of the bunch or the pick of the bunch, you mean they are the best of a group of people or things.
  • the executive mansion — the White House
  • the scout association — a worldwide movement for boys or (in some countries) girls, founded as the Boy Scouts in England in 1908 by Lord Baden-Powell with the aim of developing character and responsibility
  • the student community — the body of students in further and higher education, considered as a whole
  • 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.
  • throw someone a curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
  • to be hard luck on sb — to be unfortunate or unlucky for someone
  • to change the subject — When someone involved in a conversation changes the subject, they start talking about something else, often because the previous subject was embarrassing.
  • to sink without trace — If you say that someone or something sinks without trace or sinks without a trace, you mean that they stop existing or stop being successful very suddenly and completely.
  • truth or consequences — a game in which each contestant is asked a question and upon failure to answer or give a correct answer receives a penalty imposed by the leader or the group.
  • twelve-tone technique — a modern system of tone relationships in which the 12 tones of an octave are not centered around any one tone, but are unified by a selected order of tones for a given composition.
  • undesirable discharge — a discharge under other than honorable conditions of a person from military service by administrative action.
  • union of south africa — former name for South Africa, Republic of.
  • white-knuckle paddler — an inexpert and timid canoeist.
  • william the conqueror — ("the Conqueror") 1027–87, duke of Normandy 1035–87; king of England 1066–87 (son of Robert I, duke of Normandy).
  • without qualification — If something is stated or accepted without qualification, it is stated or accepted as it is, without the need for any changes.
  • youth training scheme — (formerly, in Britain) a scheme, run by the Training Agency, to provide vocational training for unemployed 16–17-year-olds
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