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

  • 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
  • saint thomas aquinas — Saint, Aquinas, Saint Thomas.
  • secure accommodation — an institution where young offenders are kept in custody
  • 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.
  • summary jurisdiction — the right a court has to adjudicate immediately upon some matter arising during its proceedings
  • sunday-go-to-meeting — most presentable; best: Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes.
  • systemic circulation — the circulatory system in general.
  • the day of judgement — a Christian term for the ending of the world
  • 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.
  • thioantimonious acid — any of a group of hypothetical acids, H3SbS3, HSbS2, and H4Sb2S5, known only in the forms of their salts in solution
  • 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.
  • too much information — I don't want to hear any more
  • 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.
  • 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
  • uniform crime report — an annual report issued by the FBI that presents data on selected categories of crimes reported to the police. Abbreviation: UCR.
  • university of durham — (body, education)   A busy research and teaching community in the historic cathedral city of Durham, UK (population 61000). Its work covers key branches of science and technology and traditional areas of scholarship. Durham graduates are in great demand among employers and the University helps to attract investment into the region. It provides training, short courses, and expertise for industry. Through its cultural events, conferences, tourist business and as a major employer, the University contributes in a wide social and economic sense to the community. Founded in 1832, the University developed in Durham and Newcastle until 1963 when the independent University of Newcastle upon Tyne came into being. Durham is a collegiate body, with 14 Colleges or Societies which are a social and domestic focus for students. In 1992, the Universities of Durham and Teesside launched University College, Stockton-on-Tees, which has 190 students in the first year.
  • upper income bracket — a grouping of the highest earning tax payers
  • wardrobe malfunction — an embarrassing situation caused by the clothes a person is wearing
  • western mountain ash — a mountain ash, Sorbus sitchensis, of western North America.
  • without detriment to — If something happens without detriment to a person or thing, it does not harm or damage them.
  • woman of easy virtue — a sexually available woman, esp a prostitute
  • you know what i mean — You can use expressions such as you know what I mean and if you know what I mean to suggest that the person listening to you understands what you are trying to say, and so you do not have to explain any more.
  • zone of accumulation — B horizon.
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