16-letter words containing d, u, t, y
- sunrise industry — any of the high-technology industries, such as electronics, that hold promise of future development
- the human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
- the oil industry — the industry that produces and delivers petroleum and petroleum products
- the sex industry — a commercial sector that employs sex workers in prostitution, pornography, etc.
- to dip your toes — If you dip your toes into something or dip your toes into the waters of something, you start doing that thing slowly and carefully, because you are not sure whether it will be successful or whether you will like it.
- to hold your own — If you hold your own, you are able to resist someone who is attacking or opposing you.
- to put it mildly — to state it with or as if with restraint
- to try your hand — If you try your hand at an activity, you attempt to do it, usually for the first time.
- tobacco industry — business of selling smoking products
- tourist industry — the people, activities, and organizations involved in providing services for people on holiday, for example hotels, restaurants, and tour guides
- treaty of verdun — an agreement reached in 843 ad by three grandsons of Charlemagne, dividing his empire into an E kingdom (later Germany), a W kingdom (later France), and a middle kingdom (containing what became the Low Countries, Lorraine, Burgundy, and N Italy)
- turn a blind eye — pretend not to see sth
- typhoid bacillus — the bacterium Salmonella typhosa, causing typhoid fever.
- un-contradictory — asserting the contrary or opposite; contradicting; inconsistent; logically opposite: contradictory statements.
- uncoincidentally — happening by or resulting from coincidence; by chance: a coincidental meeting.
- under-employment — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
- undiscriminatory — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
- unpredictability — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
- what do you know — People sometimes say 'What do you know!' when they are very surprised about something.