17-letter words containing a, s, y, m, e, t
- spectrum analyser — an instrument that splits an input waveform into its frequency components, which are then displayed
- spectrum analysis — the determination of the constitution or condition of bodies and substances by means of the spectra they produce.
- stand on ceremony — to insist on or act with excessive formality
- statutory meeting — company shareholders' discussion
- steamship company — a company which has a fleet of steamships
- strawberry tomato — the small, edible, tomato-like fruit of the plant Physalis pruinosa, of the nightshade family.
- sunbury-on-thames — a town in SE England, in N Surrey. Pop: 27 415 (2001)
- sunday supplement — a special section incorporated in the Sunday editions of many newspapers, often containing features on books, celebrities, home entertainment, gardening, and the like.
- supply management — business purchasing
- sympathetic magic — magic predicated on the belief that one thing or event can affect another at a distance as a consequence of a sympathetic connection between them.
- take sth by storm — If someone or something takes a place by storm, they are extremely successful.
- tertiary consumer — a carnivore at the topmost level in a food chain that feeds on other carnivores; an animal that feeds only on secondary consumers.
- the varsity match — a sporting fixture between Oxford and Cambridge university rugby teams
- tolpuddle martyrs — six farm workers sentenced to transportation for seven years in 1834 for administering an unlawful oath to form a trade union in the village of Tolpuddle, Dorset
- tridimensionality — having three dimensions.
- uncompassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
- unsympathetically — in a manner that is not characterized by feeling or showing sympathy
- urogenital system — the urinary tract and reproductive organs
- vestibular system — the sensory mechanism in the inner ear that detects movement of the head and helps to control balance
- wade-giles system — a system of Romanization of Chinese, devised by Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818–95) and adapted by Herbert Allen Giles (1845–1935), widely used in representing Chinese words and names in English, especially before the adoption of pinyin.
- westminster abbey — a Gothic church in London, England.
- yesterday morning — during the morning of the day preceding today
- zygomatic process — any of several bony processes that articulate with the cheekbone.