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17-letter words containing d, y, s

  • socially included — benefiting from social inclusion
  • sodium pyroborate — borax1 .
  • sodium salicylate — a white, crystalline compound, C 7 H 5 NaO 3 , soluble in water, alcohol, and glycerol: used in medicine as an analgesic, antipyretic, and anti-inflammatory, and as a preservative.
  • sorolla y bastida — Joaquín [hwah-keen] /ʰwɑˈkin/ (Show IPA), 1863–1923, Spanish painter.
  • specific humidity — the ratio of the mass of water vapor in air to the total mass of the mixture of air and water vapor.
  • speech difficulty — a problem encountered in speaking
  • spiny-headed worm — any of a small group of endoparasites of the phylum Acanthocephala, as larvae parasitic in insects and crustaceans and as adults in various vertebrates.
  • split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
  • spondylolisthesis — the forward displacement of a vertebra.
  • spread your wings — if you spread your wings, you do something new and rather difficult or move to a new place, because you feel more confident in your abilities than you used to and you want to gain wider experience
  • st. crispin's day — October 25: anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt (1415).
  • st. swithin's day — July 15, superstitiously regarded as a day that, should it rain or be fair, will be followed by 40 consecutive days of like weather.
  • stage-door johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
  • stand on ceremony — to insist on or act with excessive formality
  • stand your ground — relating to or denoting a legal principle or law that eliminates the duty to retreat by allowing, as a first response, self-defense by deadly force: We’re proud to represent Florida, the first stand your ground state.
  • statutory holiday — a public holiday; a holiday all workers are entitled to
  • strawberry blonde — woman: with reddish fair hair
  • stymphalian birds — a flock of predacious birds of Arcadia that were driven away and killed by Hercules as one of his labors.
  • subsidiary ledger — (in accounting) a ledger containing a group of detailed and related accounts the total of which is summarized in the control account.
  • sulfonyl chloride — a colorless liquid, SO 2 Cl 2 , having a very pungent odor and corrosive to the skin and mucous membranes: used as a chlorinating or sulfonating agent.
  • sunday observance — the fact of keeping Sunday as a special day when people go to church
  • sunday supplement — a special section incorporated in the Sunday editions of many newspapers, often containing features on books, celebrities, home entertainment, gardening, and the like.
  • superaerodynamics — the branch of aerodynamics that deals with gases at very low densities.
  • 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.
  • supervisory board — a board of management of which nonmanagerial workers are members, having supervisory powers over some aspects of management decision-making
  • supply and demand — economy: basic market theory
  • survivor syndrome — a characteristic group of symptoms, including recurrent images of death, depression, persistent anxiety, and emotional numbness, occurring in survivors of disaster.
  • sword and sorcery — a genre of literature and film, usually set in days of old with magic as well as sword fighting
  • sydenham's chorea — a form of chorea affecting children, often associated with rheumatic fever
  • synchronous speed — the speed at which an alternating-current machine must operate to generate electromotive force at a given frequency.
  • 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.
  • the good old days — When people refer to the good old days, they are referring to a time in the past when they think that life was better than it is now.
  • the lord's prayer — the, the prayer given by Jesus to His disciples, and beginning with the words Our Father. Matt. 6:9–13; Luke 11:2–4.
  • to get psyched up — to prepare mentally
  • to lose your mind — If you say that someone is losing their mind, you mean that they are becoming mad.
  • to slip your mind — If something slips your mind, you forget it.
  • tolpuddle martyrs — six farm workers sentenced to transportation for seven years in 1834 for administering an unlawful oath to form a trade union in the village of Tolpuddle, Dorset
  • tourette syndrome — a neurological disorder characterized by recurrent involuntary movements, including multiple neck jerks and sometimes vocal tics, as grunts, barks, or words, especially obscenities.
  • tridimensionality — having three dimensions.
  • try one's hand at — to attempt (to do something), esp. for the first time
  • turner's syndrome — an abnormal congenital condition resulting from a defect on or absence of the second sex chromosome, characterized by retarded growth of the gonads.
  • understandability — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
  • university degree — an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study
  • vascular cylinder — stele (sense 3)
  • video disk player — a device that reads the information on a video disc
  • visually impaired — (of a person) having reduced vision so severe as to constitute a handicap.
  • wade-giles system — a system of Romanization of Chinese, devised by Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818–95) and adapted by Herbert Allen Giles (1845–1935), widely used in representing Chinese words and names in English, especially before the adoption of pinyin.
  • williams syndrome — an abnormality in the genes involved in calcium metabolism, resulting in learning difficulties
  • yesterday evening — during the evening of the day preceding today
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