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20-letter words containing m, a, n, t, e, u

  • on someone's account — Your feelings on someone's account are the feelings you have about what they have experienced or might experience, especially when you imagine yourself to be in their situation.
  • one's spiritual home — Your spiritual home is the place where you feel that you belong, usually because your ideas or attitudes are the same as those of the people who live there.
  • ontological argument — an a priori argument for the existence of God, asserting that as existence is a perfection, and as God is conceived of as the most perfect being, it follows that God must exist; originated by Anselm, later used by Duns Scotus, Descartes, and Leibniz.
  • pale western cutworm — the larva of a noctuid moth, Agrotis orthogonia, of the western U.S. and Canada, that seriously damages grains, beets, potatoes, alfalfa, etc., by feeding underground on roots and stems.
  • parametric equations — one of two or more equations expressing the location of a point on a curve or surface by determining each coordinate separately.
  • pentobarbital sodium — a barbiturate drug used in medicine as a sedative and hypnotic. Formula: C11H17N2O3Na
  • peruvian mastic tree — a pepper tree, Schinus molle.
  • population parameter — a quantity or statistical measure that, for a given population, is fixed and that is used as the value of a variable in some general distribution or frequency function to make it descriptive of that population: The mean and variance of a population are population parameters.
  • potassium antimonate — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, KSbO 3 , used chiefly as a pigment in paints.
  • potassium binoxalate — a white, crystalline, hygroscopic, poisonous solid, KHC 2 O 4 , that is usually hydrated: used chiefly for removing ink stains, cleaning metal and wood, and in photography.
  • premenstrual tension — Premenstrual tension is the same as premenstrual syndrome. The abbreviation PMT is often used.
  • prenuptial agreement — A prenuptial agreement is a written contract made between a man and a woman before they marry, in which they state how their assets such as property and money should be divided if they get divorced.
  • procedural agreement — regulations agreed between the parties to collective bargaining, defining the bargaining units, bargaining scope, procedures for collective bargaining, and the facilities to be provided to trade union representatives
  • production agreement — a contract concerning the production or manufacture of something
  • pseudoparenchymatous — (in certain fungi and red algae) a compact mass of tissue, made up of interwoven hyphae or filaments, that superficially resembles plant tissue.
  • punch a (time) clock — to insert a timecard into a time clock when coming to or going from work
  • quaker meeting house — a place where Quakers gather for worship
  • quantum field theory — any theory in which fields are treated by the methods of quantum mechanics; each field can then be regarded as consisting of particles of a particular kind, which may be created and annihilated.
  • redundancy agreement — an agreement over the sum of money given by an employer to an employee who has been made redundant
  • repurchase agreement — a contract between a dealer, as a bank, and an investor, whereby the investor purchases securities with the promise that they will be bought back by the dealer on a designated date, for which the investor receives a fixed return.
  • return from the dead — (jargon)   To regain access to the net after a long absence. Compare person of no account.
  • rocky mountain sheep — bighorn.
  • rotations per minute — revolutions per minute
  • run off at the mouth — Anatomy, Zoology. the opening through which an animal or human takes in food. the cavity containing the structures used in mastication. the structures enclosing or being within this cavity, considered as a whole.
  • saint john ambulance — an organization that provides first aid and first-aid training
  • secure accommodation — an institution where young offenders are kept in custody
  • serra da mantiqueira — a mountain range in SE Brazil, running parallel to the coast. Highest point, 9140 feet (2785 meters).
  • snow-on-the-mountain — a North American euphorbiaceous plant, Euphorbia marginata, having white-edged leaves and showy white bracts surrounding small flowers
  • sodium meta-arsenite — sodium arsenite.
  • south american plate — a major tectonic division of the earth's crust, comprising the continent of South America and several ocean basins and bounded on the north by the Caribbean Plate, on the east by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, on the west by a submarine trench that borders the western coast of the continent, and on the south by the Antarctic Plate.
  • south temperate zone — the part of the earth's surface between the tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle.
  • space-time continuum — Also called space-time continuum. the four-dimensional continuum, having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate, in which all physical quantities may be located.
  • standard book number — International Standard Book Number. Abbreviation: SBN.
  • subpoena duces tecum — a writ directing a person to appear in court and to bring some document described in the writ.
  • summative assessment — general assessment of a pupil's achievements over a range of subjects by means of a combined appraisal of formative assessments
  • sunday-go-to-meeting — most presentable; best: Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes.
  • supplemental plumage — the third plumage assumed by certain birds having three different plumages in their annual cycle of molts.
  • supplementary angles — either of two angles that added together produce an angle of 180°.
  • systemic circulation — the circulatory system in general.
  • temperature gradient — rate of change of temperature with distance.
  • the day of judgement — a Christian term for the ending of the world
  • the garment industry — the manufacturing of items of clothing
  • 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.
  • thomas of erceldouneThomas of, Thomas of Erceldoune.
  • to burst into flames — If something bursts into flames or bursts into flame, it suddenly starts burning strongly.
  • to do your damnedest — If you say that you will do your damnedest to achieve something, you mean that you will try as hard as you can to do it, even though you think that it will take a lot of effort.
  • to make up your mind — If you make up your mind or make your mind up, you decide which of a number of possible things you will have or do.
  • trigeminal neuralgia — tic douloureux.
  • ultimate constituent — an element of a construction that cannot be further divided into grammatical constituents: the morphemes of an utterance are usually considered to be its ultimate constituents.
  • united arab emirates — group of Arabian states
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