17-letter words containing d, i, r, t, y, p
- serendipity berry — miracle fruit (def 2).
- shipping industry — the industry concerned with transporting freight, esp by ship
- sodium pyroborate — borax1 .
- split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
- st. crispin's day — October 25: anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt (1415).
- stymphalian birds — a flock of predacious birds of Arcadia that were driven away and killed by Hercules as one of his labors.
- superconductivity — the phenomenon of almost perfect conductivity shown by certain substances at temperatures approaching absolute zero. The recent discovery of materials that are superconductive at temperatures hundreds of degrees above absolute zero raises the possibility of revolutionary developments in the production and transmission of electrical energy.
- thermoperiodicity — the effect on an organism of rhythmic fluctuations in temperature.
- to open your mind — If something opens your mind to new ideas or experiences, it makes you more willing to accept them or try them.
- to slip your mind — If something slips your mind, you forget it.