21-letter words containing o, n, i, u, m
- consummatory behavior — a behavior pattern that occurs in response to a stimulus and that achieves the satisfaction of a specific drive, as the eating of captured prey by a hungry predator (distinguished from appetitive behavior).
- continuous assessment — If pupils or students undergo continuous assessment, they get qualifications partly or entirely based on the work they do during the year, rather than on exam results.
- coordination compound — complex (def 10).
- cosmological argument — one of the arguments that purport to prove the existence of God from empirical facts about the universe, esp the argument to the existence of a first cause
- count of monte cristo — a novel (1844–45) by Alexandre Dumas père.
- counterdemonstrations — Plural form of counterdemonstration.
- cross-cousin marriage — marriage between the children of a brother and sister.
- customer satisfaction — When customers are pleased with the goods or services they have bought, you can refer to customer satisfaction.
- cyclical unemployment — unemployment caused by fluctuations in the level of economic activity inherent in trade cycles
- demand-pull inflation — inflation in which rising demand results in a rise in prices.
- department of justice — the department of the U.S. federal government charged with the responsibility for the enforcement of federal laws. Abbreviation: DOJ.
- development education — an area of study that aims to give pupils an understanding of their involvement in world affairs
- dew-point temperature — the temperature to which air must be cooled, at a given pressure and water-vapor content, for it to reach saturation; the temperature at which dew begins to form.
- discriminant function — a linear function of measurements of different properties of an object or event that is used to assign the object or event to one population or another (discriminant analysis)
- dumfries and galloway — a region in S Scotland. 2460 sq. mi. (6371 sq. km).
- earthmoving equipment — machines, such as bulldozers, that are used for excavating and moving large quantities of earth
- eastern european time — a standard time used by some countries in Eastern Europe, such as Finland, Romania, etc and also some countries of the Middle East and North Africa
- electromagnetic pulse — a surge of electromagnetic radiation, esp one resulting from a nuclear explosion, which can disrupt electronic devices and, occasionally, larger structures and equipment
- employee contribution — money contributed by an employee to his or her employer's pension fund
- employer contribution — money contributed by an employer to his or her employee's pension fund
- endoplasmic reticulum — an extensive intracellular membrane system whose functions include synthesis and transport of lipids and, in regions where ribosomes are attached, of proteins
- enharmonic modulation — a change of key achieved by regarding a note in one key as an equivalent note in another. Thus E flat in the key of A flat could be regarded as D sharp in the key of B major
- environmental studies — a university course studying the environment and related issues
- exposure compensation — the act of overriding a camera's automatic exposure in order to achieve a particular effect or due to difficult lighting conditions
- faculty board meeting — a meeting of the governing body of a faculty
- finite state automata — Finite State Machine
- foot-in-mouth disease — the habit of making inappropriate, insensitive, or imprudent statements.
- functional imperative — a requirement for the survival of any social system, as communication, control of conflict, or socialization.
- gastrohepatic omentum — lesser omentum.
- geiger-muller counter — an instrument for detecting ionizing radiations, consisting of a gas-filled tube in which electric-current pulses are produced when the gas is ionized by radiation, and of a device to register these pulses: used chiefly to measure radioactivity.
- general court-martial — a court-martial having the authority to try any offense against military law and to impose a sentence of dishonorable discharge or of death when provided by law.
- give someone a leg up — to help someone to climb an obstacle by pushing upwards
- government securities — securities issued by the US Government
- great smoky mountains — the W part of the Appalachians, in W North Carolina and E Tennessee. Highest peak: Clingman's Dome, 2024 m (6642 ft)
- ground-effect machine — ACV (def 2).
- homogeneous catalysis — Homogeneous catalysis is catalysis in which the catalyst takes part in the reaction that it increases.
- hop, skip, and a jump — a short distance: The laundry is just a hop, skip, and a jump away.
- human papilloma virus — a species of virus that causes genital warts. Abbreviation: HPV.
- humanistic psychology — an approach to psychology that emphasizes emotions and the better understanding of the self in terms of observation of oneself and one's relations with others
- hypogammaglobulinemia — A type of immune disorder characterised by a reduction in all types of gamma globulins.
- ibm customer engineer — (job) (CE) A hardware guy from IBM.
- immaculate conception — the dogma of the unique privilege by which the Virgin Mary was conceived in her mother's womb without the stain of original sin through the anticipated merits of Jesus Christ. Compare virgin birth (def 1).
- immediate constituent — one of the usually two largest constituents of a construction: The immediate constituents of He ate his dinner are he and ate his dinner; of ate his dinner are ate and his dinner; etc. Abbreviation: IC.
- immunoelectrophoresis — a technique for the separation and identification of mixtures of proteins, consisting of electrophoresis followed by immunodiffusion.
- immunoelectrophoretic — a technique for the separation and identification of mixtures of proteins, consisting of electrophoresis followed by immunodiffusion.
- immunohistochemically — By means of or in regard to immunohistochemistry.
- in good circumstances — (of a person) in a good financial situation
- in no uncertain terms — If you say that someone tells a person something in no uncertain terms, you are emphasizing that they say it strongly and clearly so that there is no doubt about what they mean.
- in saecula saeculorum — for ever and ever.
- in someone's judgment — in someone's opinion