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20-letter words containing u, n, a, i, d, e

  • in-service education — training and education given to employed teachers throughout their career
  • indian cucumber root — a North American plant, Medeola virginiana, of the lily family, having whorled leaves, nodding, greenish-yellow flowers, and an edible root.
  • inductive statistics — the branch of statistics dealing with conclusions, generalizations, predictions, and estimations based on data from samples.
  • industrial democracy — control of an organization by the people who work for it, esp by workers holding positions on its board of directors
  • industrial espionage — the stealing of technological or commercial research data, blueprints, plans, etc., as by a person in the hire of a competing company.
  • industrial insurance — industrial life insurance.
  • industrial relations — (used with a plural verb) the dealings or relations of an industrial concern with its employees, with labor in general, with the public, etc.
  • information builders — Distributors of LEVEL5 OBJECT. Telephone +1 800 969 INFO.
  • inland revenue stamp — a certificate issued by the Inland Revenue to acknowledge payment of tax
  • intestinal fortitude — courage; resoluteness; endurance; guts: to have intestinal fortitude.
  • intravenous drug use — the injection of drugs intravenously
  • inventory adjustment — Inventory adjustments are increases or decreases made in inventory to account for theft, loss, breakages, and errors in the amount or number of items received.
  • judicial proceedings — any action involving or carried out by a court of law
  • labour-saving device — a machine, gadget, etc, that reduces (human) effort, hard work or labour
  • land-office business — a lively, booming, expanding, or very profitable business.
  • languedoc-roussillon — a region of S France, on the Gulf of Lions: consists of the departments of Lozère, Gard, Hérault, Aude, and Pyrénées-Orientales; mainly mountainous with a coastal plain
  • law-and-order issues — issues concerning law and social conventions
  • lieutenant commander — a commissioned officer ranking next below a commander and next above a lieutenant.
  • longitude by account — the longitude of the position of a vessel as estimated by dead reckoning.
  • longitudinal section — the representation of an object as it would appear if cut by the vertical plane passing through the longest axis of the object.
  • macular degeneration — degeneration of the central portion of the retina, resulting in a loss of sharp vision.
  • maintenance and cure — the right of an injured sailor to support and medical treatment.
  • medical underwriting — Medical underwriting is the use of medical or health status information in the evaluation of an applicant for life or health insurance.
  • microwave background — a background of microwave electromagnetic radiation with a black-body spectrum discovered in 1965, understood to be the thermal remnant of the big bang with which the universe began
  • minimum lending rate — the official interest rate charged by the Bank of England and below which it will refrain from lending money.
  • monosodium glutamate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 5 H 8 NNaO 4 ⋅H 2 O, used to intensify the flavor of foods.
  • motor neuron disease — Motor neuron disease is a disease which destroys the part of a person's nervous system that controls movement.
  • multicast addressing — Ethernet addressing scheme used to send packets to devices of a certain type or for broadcasting to all nodes. The least significant bit of the most significant byte of a multi-cast address is one.
  • multimedia extension — Matrix Math eXtensions
  • multistep hydroplane — a motorship having a flat bottom built as a series of planes inclined forward, the ship planing on each from stem to stern as its speed increases.
  • mum-and-dad investor — a small-scale non-professional investor
  • neighbourhood warden — a person employed by a local authority to patrol residential areas and deal with antisocial behaviour
  • net national product — the gross national product less allowance for depreciation of capital goods. Abbreviation: NNP.
  • nodding acquaintance — a slight, incomplete, or superficial knowledge (of something or someone): He had only a nodding acquaintance with Italian and didn't trust it to get him through the tour. Although we were neighbors for several years, we had only a nodding acquaintance.
  • nonaccidental injury — damage, such as a bruise, burn, or fracture, deliberately inflicted on a child or an old person
  • noninstitutionalized — Not institutionalized.
  • nostalgie de la boue — a desire for or attraction to crudity, vulgarity, depravity, etc.
  • notre dame mountains — a mountain range in E Quebec, Canada, an extension of the Green Mountains in Vermont and a portion of the Appalachian Mountains: about 500 miles (800 km) long, rising about 2000 feet (610 meters).
  • occupational disease — Also called industrial disease. a disease caused by the conditions or hazards of a particular occupation.
  • ode on a grecian urn — a poem (1819) by Keats.
  • pappus of alexandria — 3rd century bc, Greek mathematician, whose eight-volume Synagoge is a valuable source of information about Greek mathematics
  • pentobarbital sodium — a barbiturate drug used in medicine as a sedative and hypnotic. Formula: C11H17N2O3Na
  • pentose nucleic acid — a nucleic acid containing a pentose.
  • permonosulfuric acid — persulfuric acid (def 1).
  • perpendicular gothic — the style of Gothic architecture in England during the 14th and 15th centuries, characterized by tracery having vertical lines, a four-centred arch, and fan vaulting
  • physiologic jaundice — a transitory jaundice that affects some infants for the first few days after birth.
  • pound cost averaging — a method of accumulating capital by investing a fixed sum in a particular security at regular intervals, in order to achieve an average purchase price below the arithmetic average of the market prices on the purchase dates
  • prince william sound — a sound in the Gulf of Alaska, on the S coast of Alaska: S end of Trans-Alaska oil pipeline at port of Valdez.
  • production agreement — a contract concerning the production or manufacture of something
  • prohibited substance — a substance, such as a drug, etc, that is banned or forbidden by law or other authority
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