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17-letter words containing a, s, y, n, t

  • scentless mayweed — a similar and related plant, Matricaria maritima, with scentless leaves
  • secondary battery — storage battery.
  • secondary boycott — a boycott by union members against their employer in order to induce the employer to bring pressure on another company involved in a labor dispute with the union.
  • secondary contact — communication or relationship between people characterized by impersonal and detached interest on the part of those involved.
  • secondary product — a product that is not the main product of an industry; a by-product
  • secondary quality — one of the qualities attributed by the mind to an object perceived, such as color, temperature, or taste.
  • secretary-general — the head or chief administrative officer of a secretariat.
  • separation energy — binding energy (def 1).
  • shake one's booty — to dance
  • shorthold tenancy — letting of a dwelling for between one and five years at a fair rent
  • situational irony — irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected.
  • south sea company — a British joint stock company that traded in South America in the 18th century. The South Sea Company took over the national debt in return for a monopoly of trade with the South Seas, causing feverish speculation in their stocks, and a financial crash in 1720 (the South Sea Bubble)
  • spatial frequency — the measure of fine detail in an optical image in terms of cycles per millimetre
  • 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.
  • split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
  • split personality — multiple personality.
  • st. crispin's day — October 25: anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt (1415).
  • st. swithin's day — July 15, superstitiously regarded as a day that, should it rain or be fair, will be followed by 40 consecutive days of like weather.
  • stage-door johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
  • stand on ceremony — to insist on or act with excessive formality
  • stand your ground — relating to or denoting a legal principle or law that eliminates the duty to retreat by allowing, as a first response, self-defense by deadly force: We’re proud to represent Florida, the first stand your ground state.
  • stationary engine — an engine mounted in a fixed position, as one used for driving generators, compressors, etc.
  • statutory meeting — company shareholders' discussion
  • statutory offense — a wrong punishable under a statute, rather than at common law.
  • stay of execution — If you are given a stay of execution, you are legally allowed to delay obeying an order of a court of law.
  • steamship company — a company which has a fleet of steamships
  • strawberry blonde — woman: with reddish fair hair
  • stray capacitance — undesired capacitance in equipment, occurring between the wiring, between the wiring and the chassis, or between components and the chassis
  • stymphalian birds — a flock of predacious birds of Arcadia that were driven away and killed by Hercules as one of his labors.
  • subclavian artery — either of a pair of arteries, one on each side of the body, that carry the main supply of blood to the arms.
  • 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
  • synchronistically — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
  • take into custody — to arrest
  • 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 pennsylvanian — the Pennsylvanian period or rock system, equivalent to the Upper Carboniferous of Europe
  • thyestean banquet — a banquet at which human flesh is served
  • to say nothing of — You use to say nothing of when you mention an additional thing which gives even more strength to the point you are making.
  • transatlantically — crossing or reaching across the Atlantic: a transatlantic liner.
  • transitory action — an action that can be brought in any country regardless of where it originated
  • tridimensionality — having three dimensions.
  • try one's hand at — to attempt (to do something), esp. for the first time
  • uncompassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
  • understandability — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
  • unsympathetically — in a manner that is not characterized by feeling or showing sympathy
  • urogenital system — the urinary tract and reproductive organs
  • utagawa kuniyoshi — original name Igusa Magosabwo. 1797–1861, Japanese painter and printmaker of the ukiyo-e school, best known for his prints of warriors and landscapes
  • vanity publishing — the practice of the author of a book paying all or most of the costs of its publication
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