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20-letter words containing f, n, u

  • a load off your mind — If you say that something that happens is a load off your mind or a weight off your mind, you mean that it causes you to stop worrying, for example because it solves a problem that you had.
  • abstract of accounts — a published condensed summary of a company or organization's annual accounts
  • after-hours drinking — drinking in a pub after its legal closing time
  • agricultural run-off — the portion of rainfall that runs over agricultural land and then into streams as surface water rather than being absorbed into ground water or evaporating
  • ammonium thiosulfate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, (NH 4) 2 S 2 O 3 , used chiefly in the manufacture of cleaning compounds for alloys having a tin or lead base.
  • ampulla of lorenzini — any of an array of electroreceptors in the head of sharks, skates, and rays capable of detecting weak electrical signals produced by muscular activity in other creatures.
  • anthemius of tralles — c474–c534, Greek mathematician and architect, active in Lydia.
  • antidandruff shampoo — a shampoo that prevents or treats dandruff
  • antimony trifluoride — a white to grayish-white, crystalline, hygroscopic, water-soluble, poisonous solid, SbF 3 , used chiefly in dyeing textiles.
  • aortic insufficiency — abnormal closure of the aortic valve resulting in regurgitation of blood to the left ventricle.
  • apollonius of rhodes — 3rd century bc, Greek epic poet and head of the Library of Alexandria. His principal work is the four-volume Argonautica
  • argument from design — the argument for the existence of God based on the assumption that order in the universe implies an orderer and cannot be a natural feature of the universe.
  • be someone's funeral — to be someone's problem, worry, etc. and not another's
  • benefit of the doubt — a favorable opinion or judgment adopted despite uncertainty.
  • benzenesulfonic acid — a fine, needlelike substance, C 6 H 6 SO 3 , used chiefly as a catalyst and in the synthesis of phenol, resorcinol, and other organic products.
  • bernard of clairvaux — Saint. ?1090–1153, French abbot and theologian, who founded the stricter branch of the Cistercians in 1115
  • bird-footed dinosaur — theropod.
  • blast-furnace cement — a type of cement made from a blend of ordinary Portland cement and crushed slag from a blast furnace. It has lower setting properties than ordinary Portland cement
  • blow up in sb's face — If something that you have planned blows up in your face, it goes wrong unexpectedly, with the result that you suffer.
  • blue screen of death — (humour)   (BSOD) The infamous white-on-blue text screen which appears when Microsoft Windows crashes. BSOD is mostly seen on the 16-bit systems such as Windows 3.1, but also on Windows 95 and apparently even under Windows NT 4. It is most likely to be caused by a GPF, although Windows 95 can do it if you've removed a required CD-ROM from the drive. It is often impossible to recover cleanly from a BSOD. The acronym BSOD is sometimes used as a verb, e.g. "Windoze just keeps BSODing on me today".
  • bouvier des flandres — any of a breed of large, strong dog with a rough, wiry coat and pointed, erect ears
  • branch target buffer — (processor)   (BTB) A register used to store the predicted destination of a branch in a processor using branch prediction?
  • buckminsterfullerene — a form of carbon that contains molecules having 60 carbon atoms arranged at the vertices of a polyhedron with hexagonal and pentagonal faces. It is produced in carbon arcs and occurs naturally in small amounts in certain minerals
  • bundle of isoglosses — bundle (def 6).
  • bureau of the census — the division of the Department of Commerce that gathers, tabulates, and correlates census statistics.
  • by/from all accounts — If you say that something is true by all accounts or from all accounts, you believe it is true because other people say so.
  • california barracuda — a small, slender barracuda, Sphyraena argentea, of coastal seas from Alaska to Baja California, valued as a food fish.
  • call someone's bluff — to challenge someone to give proof of his claims
  • center of percussion — the point on a rigid body, suspended so as to be able to move freely about a fixed axis, at which the body may be struck without changing the position of the axis.
  • centrifugal spinning — the spinning of rayon filaments in a centrifugal box.
  • certified accountant — (in Britain) a member of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants, who is authorized to audit company accounts
  • chauffeur-driven car — a car driven by a chauffeur
  • chief superintendent — an officer of senior rank in a British police force or other similarly organized force
  • clothes manufacturer — a business concern that manufactures clothes
  • college of education — a professional training college for teachers
  • committee of inquiry — (in parliament) a group set up to investigate something
  • commune with oneself — to think; ponder
  • complete unification — (programming)   W.P. Weijland's name for unification without occur check.
  • confectioners' sugar — Confectioners' sugar is very fine white sugar that is used for making icing and candy.
  • context of situation — the totality of extralinguistic features having relevance to a communicative act.
  • coroneted fruit dove — a brightly coloured bird of the Columbidae family with a distinctive marking on its head, found in Indonesia and Papua new Guinea
  • corruption of minors — the criminal offence of inducing people below the age of consent to engage in sexual activity
  • council of ministers — the EU's most important decision-making body
  • council of the reich — the Reichsrat.
  • council of the union — the legislature of the former Soviet Union and its successor states, consisting of an upper house (Soviet of the Union or Council of the Union) whose delegates are elected on the basis of population, and a lower house (Soviet of Nationalities or Council of Nationalities) whose delegates are elected to represent the various nationalities.
  • counter-inflationary — designed to reduce inflation
  • counterproliferation — Action intended to prevent an increase or spread in the possession of nuclear weapons.
  • coupling coefficient — The coupling coefficient of a pair of coils is a measure of the magnetic effect passing between them.
  • cut of someone's jib — someone's manner, behaviour, style, etc
  • differential housing — the casing that houses the differential of a motor vehicle

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