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20-letter words containing u, n, w, e, t

  • absent without leave — absent from duty without official permission but with no intention of deserting
  • anti-corn law league — an organization founded in 1839 by Richard Cobden and John Bright to oppose the Corn Laws, which were repealed in 1846
  • at two hours' notice — with notification only two hours in advance
  • auxiliary power unit — an additional engine fitted to an aircraft to operate when the main engines are not in use
  • bloodied but unbowed — wounded but not defeated
  • bring down the house — to receive enthusiastic applause from the audience
  • bring the house down — to win great applause
  • by their own account — If you say that something concerning a particular person is true by his or her own account, you mean that you believe it because that person has said it is true.
  • come out in the wash — If you say that something will come out in the wash, you mean that people will eventually find out the truth about it.
  • commune with oneself — to think; ponder
  • cut one's own throat — to be the means of one's own ruin
  • discounted cash flow — a technique for appraising an investment that takes into account the different values of future returns according to when they will be received
  • full to the gunwales — completely full; full to overflowing
  • greatest lower bound — a lower bound that is greater than or equal to all the lower bounds of a given set: 1 is the greatest lower bound of the set consisting of 1, 2, 3. Abbreviation: glb.
  • group of twenty-four — a group of twenty-four rich and industrialized countries of the world, whose heads of government meet regularly to coordinate the position of developing countries on monetary and development issues
  • helmeted guinea fowl — the common guinea fowl in its wild state.
  • how about something? — what is your wish, opinion, or information concerning something (or someone)?
  • human growth hormone — somatotropin. Abbreviation: hGH.
  • imported currantworm — the larva of any of several insects, as a sawfly, Nematus ribesii (imported currantworm) which infests and feeds on the leaves and fruit of currants.
  • junior featherweight — a boxer weighing up to 122 pounds (54.9 kg), between bantamweight and featherweight.
  • law of superposition — Geology. a basic law of geochronology, stating that in any undisturbed sequence of rocks deposited in layers, the youngest layer is on top and the oldest on bottom, each layer being younger than the one beneath it and older than the one above it.
  • medical underwriting — Medical underwriting is the use of medical or health status information in the evaluation of an applicant for life or health insurance.
  • metric hundredweight — a unit of weight equivalent to 50 kilograms.
  • newcastle-under-lyme — a town in W central England, in Staffordshire. Pop: 74 427 (2001)
  • not mince your words — If you say that someone does not mince their words, you mean that they speak in a forceful and direct way, especially when saying something unpleasant to someone.
  • not out of the woods — If something or someone is not out of the woods yet, they are still having difficulties or problems.
  • on one's own account — If you take part in a business activity on your own account, you do it for yourself, and not as a representative or employee of a company.
  • pale western cutworm — the larva of a noctuid moth, Agrotis orthogonia, of the western U.S. and Canada, that seriously damages grains, beets, potatoes, alfalfa, etc., by feeding underground on roots and stems.
  • put the hard word on — to ask or demand something from
  • queensland arrowroot — a South American and West Indian herb, Canna edulis, having large sheathing leaves, red flowers, and edible rhizomes.
  • rub up the wrong way — to arouse anger (in); annoy
  • ruby-crowned kinglet — an olive-gray, American kinglet, Regulus calendula, the male of which has an erectile, ruby crest.
  • settle accounts with — to pay or receive a balance due
  • size-weight illusion — a standard sense illusion that a small object is heavier than a large object of the same weight
  • snow-on-the-mountain — a North American euphorbiaceous plant, Euphorbia marginata, having white-edged leaves and showy white bracts surrounding small flowers
  • sweat one's guts out — to work very hard
  • the (great) unwashed — The unwashed or the great unwashed is a way of referring to poor or ordinary people.
  • the other way around — reversed
  • throw up one's hands — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • to get your own back — If you get your own back on someone, you have your revenge on them because of something bad that they have done to you.
  • to spread your wings — If you spread your wings, you do something new and rather difficult or move to a new place, because you feel more confident in your abilities than you used to and you want to gain wider experience.
  • tomb of the unknowns — See under Unknown Soldier.
  • travelling-wave tube — an electronic tube in which an electron beam interacts with a distributed high-frequency magnetic field so that energy is transferred from the beam to the field
  • triple witching hour — the last hour of trading on the New York Stock Exchange on the four Fridays each year when stock options, stock index futures, and options on such futures simultaneously expire: regarded as a time of extreme volatility in trading.
  • turn over a new leaf — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
  • twelve-string guitar — an acoustic guitar having twelve strings instead of six, with each pair tuned an octave apart, and more difficult to play than the standard guitar.
  • twiddle one's thumbs — to turn about or play with lightly or idly, especially with the fingers; twirl.
  • under/below strength — If an army or team is under strength or below strength, it does not have all the members that it needs or usually has.
  • unified screw thread — a screw thread system introduced for defence equipment (1939–44), in which the thread form and pitch were a compromise between British Standard Whitworth and American Standard Sellers: adopted by the International Standards Organization
  • university of hawaii — (body, education)   A University spread over 10 campuses on 4 islands throughout the state. See also Aloha, Aloha Net.

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