22-letter words containing s, e, o, d, u, r
- to twiddle your thumbs — If you say that someone is twiddling their thumbs, you mean that they do not have anything to do and are waiting for something to happen.
- turn one's hand to sth — If you turn your hand to something such as a practical activity, you learn about it and do it for the first time.
- unconditioned response — a reflex action innately elicited by a stimulus without the intervention of any learning process
- under no circumstances — not for any reason
- under starter's orders — (of horses in a race) awaiting the start signal
- underground combustion — Underground combustion is the process of heating oil to allow it to flow more easily and make it easier to recover.
- united empire loyalist — any of the American colonists who settled in Canada during or after the War of American Independence because of loyalty to the British Crown
- universal product code — a bar code that indicates price, product classification, etc., and can be read electronically, as at checkout counters in supermarkets. Abbreviation: UPC.
- unprofessional conduct — activity that is contrary to the accepted code of conduct of a profession
- unsaturated production — Unsaturated production is the production of smaller, unsaturated hydrocarbons from saturated hydrocarbons, for example producing alkenes such as ethane and propene.
- user datagram protocol — (protocol) (UDP) Internet standard network layer, transport layer and session layer protocols which provide simple but unreliable datagram services. UDP is defined in STD 6, RFC 768. It adds a checksum and additional process-to-process addressing information [to what?]. UDP is a connectionless protocol which, like TCP, is layered on top of IP. UDP neither guarantees delivery nor does it require a connection. As a result it is lightweight and efficient, but all error processing and retransmission must be taken care of by the application program.
- van der waals equation — an equation of state relating the pressure, volume, and absolute temperature of a gas, taking into account the finite size of the molecules and the attractive force between them.
- volume of distribution — A volume of distribution is the hypothetical volume of body fluid that would be required to dissolve the amount of drug needed to achieve the same concentration in the blood.
- wardour street english — affectedly archaic speech or writing
- would sooner/'d sooner — If you say that you would sooner do something or you'd sooner do it, you mean that you would prefer to do it.
- your neck of the woods — Someone or something that is from your neck of the woods is from the same part of the country as you are.