17-letter words containing b, a, y, s, t
- northeast by east — a point on the compass 11°15′ east of northeast. Abbreviation: NEbE.
- paleobiochemistry — the study of biochemical processes that occurred in fossil life forms.
- safety in numbers — If you say that there is safety in numbers, you mean that you are safer doing something if there are a lot of people doing it rather than doing it alone.
- saved by the bell — a hollow instrument of cast metal, typically cup-shaped with a flaring mouth, suspended from the vertex and rung by the strokes of a clapper, hammer, or the like.
- say the unsayable — to express an opinion thought to be too controversial to mention
- 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.
- semi-permeability — permeable only to certain small molecules: a semipermeable membrane.
- shake one's booty — to dance
- sodium pyroborate — borax1 .
- sorolla y bastida — Joaquín [hwah-keen] /ʰwɑˈkin/ (Show IPA), 1863–1923, Spanish painter.
- southeast by east — a point on the compass 11°15′ east of southeast. Abbreviation: SEbE.
- split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
- statue of liberty — a large copper statue, on Liberty Island, in New York harbor, depicting a woman holding a burning torch: designed by F. A. Bartholdi and presented to the U.S. by France; unveiled 1886.
- strawberry blonde — woman: with reddish fair hair
- strawberry tomato — the small, edible, tomato-like fruit of the plant Physalis pruinosa, of the nightshade family.
- 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)
- take sth by storm — If someone or something takes a place by storm, they are extremely successful.
- take years off sb — If you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has taken years off someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much younger.
- tapestry brussels — a carpet made with three-ply or four-ply worsted yarn drawn up in uncut loops to form a pattern over the entire surface (body Brussels) or made of worsted or woolen yarns on which a pattern is printed (tapestry Brussels)
- the barbary coast — a historic name for the Mediterranean coast of North Africa: a centre of piracy against European shipping from the 16th to the 19th centuries
- the buckeye state — a nickname for Ohio
- thyestean banquet — a banquet at which human flesh is served
- understandability — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- vanity publishing — the practice of the author of a book paying all or most of the costs of its publication
- vestibular system — the sensory mechanism in the inner ear that detects movement of the head and helps to control balance
- westminster abbey — a Gothic church in London, England.