lacuna
- n a blank gap or missing part
- n an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome
- This lacuna in liberal education is both lamentable and inexcusable .
- The intensification of German propaganda inside Switzerland led many Swiss to believe that Germany might like to fill the last lacuna in this Pan-Germanic ideal sooner rather than .
- The phrase masks what may be a legal lacuna in which the more than 10,000 mercenaries operating as "security contractors" in Iraq operate.