An impacted wisdom tooth is one that fails to completely rise through the gums -- the term is erupt.

VOA: special.2011.08.10

So far,DNA testing has cleared the term is exonerated more than two hundred forty people in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.10.03

But the term "exquisite corpse" comes from a game in which a group of people collectively write a story.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

On Tuesday voters in Massachusetts elected a Republican to finish the term of Ted Kennedy who died in August.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

He was first elected in 1989 to complete the term of Harold Washington, the city's first black mayor, who died in office.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

American writer Alice Kahn is said to have invented the term to describe young people who spend a lot of time using computers.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

You may have heard the term laissez-faire to describe a kind of economic or political policy.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

Media Relations Director Jeffrey Hiday says the term "think tank" dates back to that time.

VOA: special.2010.09.27

Ellen Parlapiano and Patricia Cobe started using the term "mompreneurs" in the late nineteen nineties.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

Several years later, he listed the term as a trademark with the United States government.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

Robert Armstrong, an artist from California, developed the term couch potato in nineteen seventy-six.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

Most dictionaries say the term "eighty-six" comes from employees in the restaurant industry.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

But biologists use the term "natural selection" to describe the evolutionary process.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

But students usually lose access after the end of the term.

VOA: special.2009.09.03