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18-letter words containing l, u, n, a, r

  • standoff insulator — a type of insulator that supports an electrical conductor at a distance from other elements or surfaces.
  • stirling's formula — a relation that approximates the value of n factorial (n!), expressed as .
  • store launch event — A store launch event is a special event, which publicizes the opening of a new store and at which discounts and free samples may be offered.
  • submaxillary gland — submandibular gland.
  • subordinate clause — a clause that modifies the principal clause or some part of it or that serves a noun function in the principal clause, as when she arrived in the sentence I was there when she arrived or that she has arrived in the sentence I doubt that she has arrived.
  • sugarloaf mountain — a mountain in SE Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, at the entrance to Guanabara Bay. 1280 feet (390 meters).
  • sulfuric anhydride — sulfur trioxide.
  • super giant slalom — a slalom race in which the course is longer and has more widely spaced gates than in a giant slalom.
  • surgical appliance — a specialized device used by somebody to relieve a particular medical condition
  • survival mechanism — something you or your body does automatically, in order to survive in a dangerous or unpleasant situation
  • teacher evaluation — the process of vetting teachers to maintain teaching standards
  • temporal summation — the act or process of summing.
  • the full treatment — If you say that someone is given the full treatment, you mean either that they are treated extremely well or that they are treated extremely severely.
  • the general public — the people in a society; people in general
  • the masurian lakes — a group of lakes in Masuria in NE Poland: scene of Russian defeats by the Germans (1914, 1915) during World War I
  • the sun also rises — a novel (1926) by Ernest Hemingway.
  • thermonuclear bomb — hydrogen bomb.
  • to bare one's soul — If you bare your soul, you tell someone your most secret thoughts and feelings.
  • tranquillizer dart — a dart filled with a tranquillizer that is shot from a gun in order to temporarily sedate an animal so that it may be handled safely
  • tristan und isolde — a music drama (composed, 1857–59; première, 1865) by Richard Wagner.
  • truck center plate — one of a pair of plates that fit together and support the body of a car on a truck, while allowing the truck to rotate with respect to the body. One plate (body center plate) is attached to the underside of the car body and the other (truck center plate) is part of the car truck.
  • turbine ventilator — a ventilator, usually mounted on the roof of a building, deck of a ship, etc., having at its head a globular, vaned rotor that is rotated by the wind, conveying air through a duct to and from a chamber below.
  • ultralow frequency — an electromagnetic wave with a frequency between 300 and 3000 hertz. Abbreviation: ULF, ulf.
  • ultrasonic testing — the scanning of material with an ultrasonic beam, during which reflections from faults in the material can be detected: a powerful nondestructive test method
  • ultrasonic welding — the use of high-energy vibration of ultrasonic frequency to produce a weld between two components which are held in close contact
  • ultrasound scanner — a device used to examine an internal bodily structure by the use of ultrasonic waves, esp for the diagnosis of abnormality in a fetus
  • under (one's) seal — in a document authenticated by one's seal
  • under lock and key — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
  • unilateral neglect — a symptom of brain damage in which a person is unaware of one side of his or her body and of anything in the external world on the same side
  • universal coupling — a coupling between rotating shafts set at an angle to one another, allowing for rotation in three planes.
  • universal debugger — (tool, parallel)   (udb) KSR's interactive source level debugger for serial and parallel programs written in KSR, Fortran, KSR C and KSR1 assembly language. Udb is a source level debugger for testing and debugging serial and parallel programs; it is compatible with GDB and dbx. The user can direct udb either by typing commands or graphically through an X-based window interface; the latter provides simultaneous display of source code, I/O and instructions. For parallel programs, operations can be carried out per-thread.
  • universal language — an auxiliary language that is used and understood everywhere.
  • universal negative — a proposition of the form “No S is P.” Symbol: E, e.
  • universal suffrage — suffrage for all persons over a certain age, usually 18 or 21, who in other respects satisfy the requirements established by law.
  • universalizability — the thesis that any moral judgment must be equally applicable to every relevantly identical situation
  • university faculty — a division within a university comprising one subject area, or a number of related subject areas
  • unix international — (body)   (UI) A consortium including Sun, AT&T and others formed to promote an open environment based on Unix System V, including the Open Look windowing system.
  • upper partial tone — overtone (def 1).
  • venture capitalist — funds invested or available for investment in a new or unproven business enterprise.
  • victor emmanuel ii — 1820–78, king of Sardinia 1849–78; first king of Italy 1861–78.
  • video surveillance — a system of monitoring activity in an area or building using a television system in which signals are transmitted from a television camera to the receivers by cables or telephone links forming a closed circuit
  • voluntary abortion — abortion (def 1).
  • voluntary-abortion — Also called voluntary abortion. the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to end a pregnancy.
  • vulcan nerve pinch — (jargon)   (Or "three-finger salute", Vulcan death grip; from the old "Star Trek" TV series via Commodore Amiga hackers) The keyboard combination that forces a soft boot or jump to ROM monitor (on machines that support such a feature). On an Amiga this is done with Ctrl/Right Amiga/Left Amiga; on IBM PCs and many microcomputers it is Ctrl/Alt/Del; on Suns, L1-A; on some Macintoshes, it is -! Silicon Graphics users are obviously the most dextrous however, as these machines use the five-finger combination: Left Shift/Left Ctrl/Left Alt/Keypad Divide/F12. Compare quadruple bucky.
  • weak nuclear force — weak interaction
  • wheelchair housing — housing designed or adapted for a chairbound person
  • wildlife sanctuary — an area where wild animals and plants are protected
  • wrangell mountains — a mountain range in SE Alaska, extending into the Yukon, Canada. Highest peak: Mount Blackburn, 5037 m (16 523 ft)
  • wrongful dismissal — the act of making someone redundant for reasons which are illegal or unjust
  • xenon hexafluoride — a colorless, crystalline compound, XeF 6 , that melts at 50°C to a yellow liquid, and boils at 75°C.
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