"no term for" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to express the absence of a specific word or concept to describe something. Example: There is no term for the feeling of nostalgia mixed with regret for a past that never actually existed.
Lord Overstone had no term for it.
There was no term for date rape.
Only there is no term for the practice in the Japanese language.
According to Zachary Leader's 1991 "Writer's Block," the best book on the subject (much of my historical information comes from it), the French and the Germans have no term for writer's block.
Mr. Potts, who came here as a conscientious objector in the 70's, said, "There was no term for 'yes in my backyard.' " What Caspar is saying "no" to lies five miles down the road, in Mendocino, itself a former lumber town with charming architecture now inhabited by T-shirt shops and $300-a-night 300-a-night 300-a-night bed-and-breakfasts bed-and-breakfasts bed-and-breakfasts
There may be no term for Murphy's Law in Arabic, but at the dedication on Saturday for a new turbine generator at a power plant here, Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and Iraq's electricity minister, Ayham al-Samaraie, encountered it in its purest form.
They had no terms for a corporation or a legal person.
The snippets of language anomalies are fascinating: I love the remote tribe that has no terms for "in front" or "behind", instead using cardinal points.
By contrast, there are no terms for men who do the same actions as mentioned above.
Moreover, there are no terms for the results of laboratory tests such as light transmission aggregation or dense granule secretion.
We had postulated that the confusion of terminology in our study was due to there being no terms for COPD in local languages.
