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18-letter words containing u, n, t, e, l, i

  • the black mountain — a mountain range in S Wales, in E Carmarthenshire and W Powys. Highest peak: Carmarthen Van, 802 m (2632 ft)
  • the final solution — the code name used by the Nazis to refer to the plan of mass murder of the Jews
  • the general public — the people in a society; people in general
  • the hotel industry — the branch of the services industry which provides hotels
  • the masurian lakes — a group of lakes in Masuria in NE Poland: scene of Russian defeats by the Germans (1914, 1915) during World War I
  • the south atlantic — the part of the Atlantic Ocean that lies to the south of the equator
  • the sun also rises — a novel (1926) by Ernest Hemingway.
  • thermoluminescence — phosphorescence produced by the heating of a substance.
  • to close your mind — If you close your mind to something, you deliberately do not think about it or pay attention to it.
  • touch-in-goal line — either of the two touchlines at each end of the field between the goal line and the dead-ball line.
  • tranquillizer dart — a dart filled with a tranquillizer that is shot from a gun in order to temporarily sedate an animal so that it may be handled safely
  • tristan und isolde — a music drama (composed, 1857–59; première, 1865) by Richard Wagner.
  • turbine ventilator — a ventilator, usually mounted on the roof of a building, deck of a ship, etc., having at its head a globular, vaned rotor that is rotated by the wind, conveying air through a duct to and from a chamber below.
  • turn in on oneself — to withdraw or cause to withdraw from contact with others and become preoccupied with one's own problems
  • ultrasonic testing — the scanning of material with an ultrasonic beam, during which reflections from faults in the material can be detected: a powerful nondestructive test method
  • ultrasonic welding — the use of high-energy vibration of ultrasonic frequency to produce a weld between two components which are held in close contact
  • unenthusiastically — full of or characterized by enthusiasm; ardent: He seems very enthusiastic about his role in the play.
  • unilateral neglect — a symptom of brain damage in which a person is unaware of one side of his or her body and of anything in the external world on the same side
  • unit magnetic pole — the unit of magnetic pole strength equal to the strength of a magnetic pole that repels a similar pole with a force of one dyne, the two poles being placed in a vacuum and separated by a distance of one centimeter.
  • unit-linked policy — a life-assurance policy, the investment benefits of which are directly in proportion to the number of units in a unit trust purchased on the policyholder's behalf
  • universal negative — a proposition of the form “No S is P.” Symbol: E, e.
  • universalizability — the thesis that any moral judgment must be equally applicable to every relevantly identical situation
  • university faculty — a division within a university comprising one subject area, or a number of related subject areas
  • unix international — (body)   (UI) A consortium including Sun, AT&T and others formed to promote an open environment based on Unix System V, including the Open Look windowing system.
  • upper partial tone — overtone (def 1).
  • uriniferous tubule — a urine-bearing tubule in a nephron of a kidney.
  • venture capitalist — funds invested or available for investment in a new or unproven business enterprise.
  • victor emmanuel ii — 1820–78, king of Sardinia 1849–78; first king of Italy 1861–78.
  • widemouth blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
  • wildlife sanctuary — an area where wild animals and plants are protected
  • wrangell mountains — a mountain range in SE Alaska, extending into the Yukon, Canada. Highest peak: Mount Blackburn, 5037 m (16 523 ft)
  • yeast nucleic acid — RNA.
  • yves saint laurent — Louis Stephen [lwee ste-fen] /lwi stɛˈfɛn/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, prime minister of Canada 1948–57.
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