20-letter words containing l, u, c, e, n, y
- a shoulder to cry on — If someone offers you a shoulder to cry on or is a shoulder to cry on, they listen sympathetically as you talk about your troubles.
- ambulatory care unit — a part of hospital where treatment is given to non-resident patients
- child support agency — the British government agency concerned with the welfare of children
- complementary colour — one of any pair of colours, such as yellow and blue, that give white or grey when mixed in the correct proportions
- constituent assembly — A constituent assembly is a body of representatives that is elected to create or change their country's constitution.
- convertible currency — A convertible currency is a currency that can be bought and sold on the open market for other currencies.
- copulative asyndeton — a staccato effect produced by omitting copulative connectives between two or more items in a group, as in “Friends, Romans, countrymen.”.
- counter-inflationary — designed to reduce inflation
- counterrevolutionary — Counterrevolutionary activities are activities intended to reverse the effects of a previous revolution.
- declaratory judgment — a judgment that merely decides the rights of parties in a given transaction, situation, or dispute but does not order any action or award damages.
- deoxyribonucleotides — Plural form of deoxyribonucleotide.
- dictionary catalogue — a catalogue of the authors, titles, and subjects of books in one alphabetical sequence
- disability insurance — insurance providing income to a policyholder who is disabled and cannot work.
- elementary education — the first six to eight years of a child's education
- entry qualifications — the qualifications people wishing to enter an organization, university, etc, have to have
- equity-linked policy — an insurance or assurance policy in which premiums are invested partially or wholly in ordinary shares for the eventual benefit of the beneficiaries of the policy
- frequency modulation — FM.
- fully-fitted kitchen — a kitchen fitted with units and appliances such as an oven, dishwasher, etc
- fulminate of mercury — a gray, crystalline solid, Hg(CNO) 2 , used chiefly in the manufacture of commercial and military detonators.
- honeysuckle ornament — anthemion.
- hydraulic suspension — a system of motor-vehicle suspension using hydraulic members, often with hydraulic compensation between front and rear systems (hydroelastic suspension)
- industrial democracy — control of an organization by the people who work for it, esp by workers holding positions on its board of directors
- insulin-coma therapy — a former treatment for mental illness, especially schizophrenia, employing insulin-induced hypoglycemia as a method for producing convulsive seizures.
- japanese honeysuckle — a climbing honeysuckle, Lonicera japonica, introduced into the eastern U.S. from Asia, having fragrant, white flowers that fade to yellow.
- juvenile delinquency — behavior of a child or youth that is so marked by violation of law, persistent mischievousness, antisocial behavior, disobedience, or intractability as to thwart correction by parents and to constitute a matter for action by the juvenile courts.
- kluver-bucy syndrome — a syndrome caused by bilateral injury to the temporal lobes and characterized by memory defect, hypersexuality, excessive oral behavior, and diminished fear reactions.
- linguistic geography — dialect geography.
- liquidity preference — (in Keynesian economics) the degree of individual preference for cash over less liquid assets.
- lonely hearts column — the part of a newspaper or magazine where lonely hearts ads appear
- longitude by account — the longitude of the position of a vessel as estimated by dead reckoning.
- mitral insufficiency — abnormal closure of the mitral valve resulting in regurgitation of blood into the atrium and leading to reduced heart function or heart failure.
- molecular gastronomy — an approach to cooking in which a chef’s knowledge of physics, chemistry, and biology allows him or her to experiment with unusual flavour combinations and cooking techniques
- neurophysiologically — In terms of, or with regard to, neurophysiology.
- neuropsychiatrically — In terms of neuropsychiatry.
- neuropsychologically — In terms of or by means of neuropsychology.
- newcastle-under-lyme — a town in W central England, in Staffordshire. Pop: 74 427 (2001)
- nonaccidental injury — damage, such as a bruise, burn, or fracture, deliberately inflicted on a child or an old person
- occupational therapy — a form of therapy in which patients are encouraged to engage in vocational tasks or expressive activities, as art or dance, usually in a social setting.
- overenthusiastically — With excessive enthusiasm.
- physiologic jaundice — a transitory jaundice that affects some infants for the first few days after birth.
- property speculation — the buying or selling of property in the hope of deriving capital gains
- pyroligneous alcohol — methyl alcohol.
- ruby-crowned kinglet — an olive-gray, American kinglet, Regulus calendula, the male of which has an erectile, ruby crest.
- spuyten duyvil creek — a channel in New York City at the north end of Manhattan Island, connecting the Hudson and Harlem rivers.
- surveillance society — a society where surveillance technology is widely used to monitor people's everyday activities
- systemic circulation — the circulatory system in general.
- systemic linguistics — a school of linguistics of British origin that emphasizes the social functions of language and describes grammar in terms of hierarchically organized structures and of systems of mutually exclusive choices available to the speaker under specified conditions.
- the canterbury tales — an uncompleted sequence of tales by Chaucer, written for the most part after 1387.
- thermal conductivity — the amount of heat per unit time per unit area that can be conducted through a plate of unit thickness of a given material, the faces of the plate differing by one unit of temperature.
- to clean up your act — If someone who has been behaving badly cleans up their act, they start to behave in a more acceptable or responsible way.
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