17-letter words containing c, i, t, y, s
- synthetic phonics — a method of teaching people to read by training them to pronounce sounds associated with particular letters in isolation and then blend them together
- take into custody — to arrest
- tay-sachs disease — a rare fatal hereditary disease, occurring chiefly in infants and children, especially of eastern European Jewish origin, characterized by a red spot on the retina, gradual blindness, and paralysis.
- 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
- to lick your lips — If you lick your lips, you move your tongue across your lips as you think about or taste something pleasant.
- to risk your neck — If you say that someone is risking their neck, you mean they are doing something very dangerous, often in order to achieve something.
- top-security wing — a wing of a prison, mental hospital, etc that has a very high level of precautions against escape
- 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
- uncompassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
- unconscientiously — governed by conscience; controlled by or done according to one's inner sense of what is right; principled: She's a conscientious judge, who does not let personal prejudices influence her decisions.
- unsympathetically — in a manner that is not characterized by feeling or showing sympathy
- varix lymphaticus — a similar condition affecting an artery or lymphatic vessel
- vertical analysis — the conversion of an organization's profits and losses into overall percentages
- voice synthesizer — a computer system that is used to artificially produce the human voice
- zygomatic process — any of several bony processes that articulate with the cheekbone.