17-letter words containing lu
- radioluminescence — luminescence induced by nuclear radiation.
- replacement value — insurance: sum required to replace sth
- revolutionary war — American Revolution.
- ringer's solution — an aqueous solution of the chlorides of sodium, potassium, and calcium in the same concentrations as normal body fluids, used chiefly in the laboratory for sustaining tissue.
- sentimental value — personal, emotional significance
- silent revolution — a social or political revolution that takes place with little warning and without great fuss or unrest
- socially excluded — suffering from social exclusion
- socially included — benefiting from social inclusion
- spanish influenza — the pandemic respiratory infection that spread throughout the world during 1917–18.
- spot-illustration — a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- stannous fluoride — a white, crystalline powder, SnF 2 , slightly soluble in water: used as a source of fluorine in the prevention of dental caries, especially as a toothpaste additive.
- stellar evolution — the sequence of changes that occurs in a star as it ages
- strange interlude — a play (1928) by Eugene O'Neill.
- supercolumniation — the placing of one order of columns above another.
- tetrafluoroethene — a dense colourless gas that is polymerized to make polytetrafluorethene (PTFE). Formula: F2C:CF2
- thermal pollution — a rise in the temperature of rivers or lakes that is injurious to water-dwelling life and is caused by the disposal of heated industrial waste water or water from the cooling towers of nuclear power plants.
- to push your luck — If you say that someone is pushing their luck, you think they are taking a bigger risk than is sensible, and may get into trouble.
- triboluminescence — luminescence produced by friction, usually within a crystalline substance.
- troilus butterfly — spicebush swallowtail.
- tubercle bacillus — the bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, causing tuberculosis.
- velvet revolution — the peaceful overthrow of Czechoslovakia's communist government in late 1989
- vibrofluidization — Vibrofluidization is when vibration is used to make particles move in a fluidized bed.