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

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.
request for comments — (standard) (RFC) One of a series, begun in 1969, of numbered Internet informational documents and standards widely followed by commercial software and freeware in the Internet and Unix communities. Few RFCs are standards but all Internet standards are recorded in RFCs. Perhaps the single most influential RFC has been RFC 822, the Internet electronic mail format standard. The RFCs are unusual in that they are floated by technical experts acting on their own initiative and reviewed by the Internet at large, rather than formally promulgated through an institution such as ANSI. For this reason, they remain known as RFCs even once adopted as standards. The RFC tradition of pragmatic, experience-driven, after-the-fact standard writing done by individuals or small working groups has important advantages over the more formal, committee-driven process typical of ANSI or ISO. Emblematic of some of these advantages is the existence of a flourishing tradition of "joke" RFCs; usually at least one a year is published, usually on April 1st. Well-known joke RFCs have included 527 ("ARPAWOCKY", R. Merryman, UCSD; 22 June 1973), 748 ("Telnet Randomly-Lose Option", Mark R. Crispin; 1 April 1978), and 1149 ("A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers", D. Waitzman, BBN STC; 1 April 1990). The first was a Lewis Carroll pastiche; the second a parody of the TCP/IP documentation style, and the third a deadpan skewering of standards-document legalese, describing protocols for transmitting Internet data packets by carrier pigeon. The RFCs are most remarkable for how well they work - they manage to have neither the ambiguities that are usually rife in informal specifications, nor the committee-perpetrated misfeatures that often haunt formal standards, and they define a network that has grown to truly worldwide proportions. See also For Your Information, STD.
retirement community — a group of houses in a suburban area or a town designed primarily for retired persons.
return from the dead — (jargon) To regain access to the net after a long absence. Compare person of no account.
return on investment — the amount of profit, before tax and after depreciation, from an investment made, usually expressed as a percentage of the original total cost invested. Abbreviation: ROI.
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.
run-time environment — (operating system) A collection of subroutines and environment variables that provide commonly used functions and data for a program while it is running. Compare run-time support.
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.
sound motion picture — a motion picture with a soundtrack.
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.
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.
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
the gnomes of zurich — Swiss bankers and financiers
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 erceldoune — Thomas 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.
tomb of the unknowns — See under Unknown Soldier.
trigeminal neuralgia — tic douloureux.
twiddle one's thumbs — to turn about or play with lightly or idly, especially with the fingers; twirl.
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.
under the impression — If you are under the impression that something is the case, you believe that it is the case, usually when it is not actually the case.
under the microscope — If you say that something is under the microscope, you mean that it is being studied very closely, usually because it is believed that something is wrong with it.
undistributed middle — Logic. a middle term of a syllogism that does not refer to its entire class in the major premise or minor premise, with the result that the syllogism is not valid.
unemployment benefit — an allowance of money paid, usually weekly, to an unemployed worker by a state or federal agency or by the worker's labor union or former employer during all or part of the period of unemployment.
unemployment figures — statistics relating to the number of people who are out of work

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