17-letter words containing e, d, r, y
- the penny dropped — If you say the penny dropped, you mean that someone suddenly understood or realized something.
- the underemployed — underemployed people
- thermoperiodicity — the effect on an organism of rhythmic fluctuations in temperature.
- three-day eventer — a rider or horse that takes part in three-day eventing
- to drag your feet — If you drag your feet or drag your heels, you delay doing something or do it very slowly because you do not want to do it.
- to keep your head — If you keep your head, you remain calm in a difficult situation. If you lose your head, you panic or do not remain calm in a difficult situation.
- to lose your mind — If you say that someone is losing their mind, you mean that they are becoming mad.
- 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.
- 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
- turbidity current — a turbid, dense current of sediments in suspension moving along the slope and bottom of a lake or ocean.
- 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.
- uncomprehendingly — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
- understandability — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- undulatory theory — wave theory (def 1).
- 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.
- 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
- yesterday morning — during the morning of the day preceding today
- yield to maturity — The yield to maturity of a bond is the rate of return on the bond if it is held to its maturity date.
- yorkshire pudding — a pudding made of an unsweetened batter of flour, salt, eggs, and milk, baked under meat as it roasts to catch the drippings or baked separately with a small amount of meat drippings.
- youthful offender — a young delinquent, especially a first offender, usually from 14 to 21 years old, whom the court tries to correct and guide rather than to punish as a criminal.