17-letter words containing f, s, y, t
- rough puff pastry — a rich flaky pastry made with butter and used for pie-crusts, flans, etc
- safety in numbers — If you say that there is safety in numbers, you mean that you are safer doing something if there are a lot of people doing it rather than doing it alone.
- safety inspection — an inspection of a place carried out to ensure that it is safe and not dangerous
- safety precaution — a precaution that is taken in order to ensure that something is safe and not dangerous
- sanitary landfill — landfill.
- scientific theory — a coherent group of propositions formulated to explain a group of facts or phenomena in the natural world and repeatedly confirmed through experiment or observation: the scientific theory of evolution.
- simplicity itself — If you say that something is simplicity itself, you are emphasizing that it is very simple or easy.
- sister of charity — a member of one of several congregations of sisters founded in 1634 by St. Vincent de Paul.
- sixty-fourth note — a note having one sixty-fourth of the time value of a whole note; hemidemisemiquaver.
- sixty-fourth rest — a rest equal in time value to a sixty-fourth note.
- soft-rock geology — geology dealing with sedimentary rocks.
- softvelocity inc. — (company) The distributors of the Clarion family of application development systems.
- spatial frequency — the measure of fine detail in an optical image in terms of cycles per millimetre
- 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
- statue of liberty — a large copper statue, on Liberty Island, in New York harbor, depicting a woman holding a burning torch: designed by F. A. Bartholdi and presented to the U.S. by France; unveiled 1886.
- statutory offense — a wrong punishable under a statute, rather than at common law.
- stay of execution — If you are given a stay of execution, you are legally allowed to delay obeying an order of a court of law.
- stereospecificity — (of a reaction) producing a simple stereoisomer.
- suffice it to say — Suffice it to say or suffice to say is used at the beginning of a statement to indicate that what you are saying is obvious, or that you will only give a short explanation.
- sulphur butterfly — sulfur butterfly.
- take years off sb — If you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has taken years off someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much younger.
- theory of numbers — number theory.
- thistle butterfly — any nymphalid butterfly of the genus Vanessa, as the red admiral or painted lady.
- to feel your oats — to feel exuberant or high-spirited
- to say nothing of — You use to say nothing of when you mention an additional thing which gives even more strength to the point you are making.
- to show your face — If you show your face somewhere, you go there and see people, although you are not welcome, are rather unwilling to go, or have not been there for some time.
- troilus butterfly — spicebush swallowtail.
- twenty four seven — continually; constantly: They're together 24/7.
- twenty-four hours — the time taken by the Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis; a whole day
- twenty-four seven — continually; constantly: They're together 24/7.
- twenty-four-seven — continually; constantly: They're together 24/7.
- unity of interest — the equal interest in property held by joint tenants
- yellowstone falls — a waterfall in NW Wyoming, in Yellowstone National Park on the Yellowstone River