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21-letter words containing d, i, s, u, e

  • sodium metabisulphite — an inorganic compound with the chemical formula Na2S2O5 that is used as a preservative, antioxidant and disinfectant
  • someone's name is mud — someone is disgraced
  • sovereign wealth fund — an investment fund created using the financial assets of a national government
  • statutory declaration — a declaration made under statutory authority before a justice of the peace or commissioner for oaths which may in certain cases be substituted for a statement on oath
  • steady state universe — a universe described by the steady state theory.
  • student participation — the extent to which students participate or involve themselves in a class, course, etc
  • submerged arc welding — a type of heavy electric-arc welding using mechanically fed bare wire with the arc submerged in powdered flux to keep out oxygen
  • suction and curettage — a technique involving extraction of the fetus through a suction tube, used to perform abortions during the early stages of pregnancy.
  • supply-side economics — a school of economic thought that emphasizes the importance to a strong economy of policies that remove impediments to supply
  • surface friction drag — the part of the drag on a body moving through a fluid that is dependent on the nature of the surface of the body
  • take under advisement — to consider carefully
  • the student community — the body of students in further and higher education, considered as a whole
  • think outside the box — to think in a different, innovative, or original manner, esp with regard to business practices, products, systems, etc
  • third-party insurance — insurance that compensates for a loss to a party other than the insured for which the insured is liable.
  • time and motion study — the systematic investigation and analysis of the motions and the time required to perform a specific operation or task with a view to seeking more efficient methods of production as well as setting time standards.
  • to be mixed up in sth — if you are mixed up in something, usually something bad, you are involved in it
  • to put the wind up sb — If something or someone puts the wind up you, they frighten or worry you.
  • to rear its ugly head — If something unpleasant rears its head or rears its ugly head, it becomes visible or noticeable.
  • to rub shoulders with — If you rub shoulders with famous people, you meet them and talk to them. You can also say that you rub elbows with someone, especially in American English.
  • trades union congress — The Trades Union Congress in Britain is the same as the TUC.
  • tsutsugamushi disease — scrub typhus.
  • turn queen's evidence — (of an accomplice) to act as witness for the prosecution and testify against those associated with him or her in crime
  • turn state's evidence — If someone who is accused of a crime turns state's evidence, they agree to give evidence in a law court against another person such as a former accomplice, usually in exchange for a reduced sentence for themselves.
  • undesirable discharge — a discharge under other than honorable conditions of a person from military service by administrative action.
  • universal disk format — (storage, standard)   (UDF) A CD-ROM file system standard that is required for DVD ROMs. UDF is the OSTA's replacement for the ISO 9660 file system used on CD-ROMs, but will be mostly used on DVD. DVD multimedia disks use UDF to contain MPEG audio and video streams. To read DVDs you need a DVD drive, the kernel driver for the drive, MPEG video support, and a UDF driver. DVDs containing both UDF filesystems and ISO 9660 filesystems can be read without UDF support. UDF can also be used by CD-R and CD-RW recorders in packet writing mode.
  • universe of discourse — the totality of known or supposed objects and phenomena throughout space; the cosmos; macrocosm.
  • university of iceland — (body, education)   The Home of Fjolnir.
  • ventriloquist's dummy — a puppet which is operated by a ventriloquist and made to appear to talk
  • xeroderma pigmentosum — a rare inherited disease characterized by sensitivity to ultraviolet light, exposure resulting in lesions and tumors of the skin and eyes.
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