17-letter words containing c, a, r, y, s
- 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 varsity match — a sporting fixture between Oxford and Cambridge university rugby teams
- to show your face — If you show your face somewhere, you go there and see people, although you are not welcome, are rather unwilling to go, or have not been there for some time.
- trackless trolley — trolley bus.
- 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
- varix lymphaticus — a similar condition affecting an artery or lymphatic vessel
- vascular cylinder — stele (sense 3)
- vertical analysis — the conversion of an organization's profits and losses into overall percentages
- walleye surfperch — a common black and silvery surfperch (Hyperprosopon argenteum) found off the coast of California
- year of confusion — (in ancient Rome) the year of 445 days preceding the introduction, in 46 b.c., of the Julian calendar: lengthened to compensate for the cumulative errors of the Roman calendar.
- zygomatic process — any of several bony processes that articulate with the cheekbone.