17-letter words containing i, s, o, p
- the upper regions — the sky; heavens
- the-metamorphosis — a short story (1915) by Franz Kafka.
- thermal expansion — expansion caused by heat
- thiopental sodium — a barbiturate, C 11 H 18 N 2 NaO 2 S, used as an anesthetic in surgery and, in psychiatry, for narcoanalysis and to stimulate recall of past events.
- to lick your lips — If you lick your lips, you move your tongue across your lips as you think about or taste something pleasant.
- to little purpose — with little (or no) result or effect; pointlessly
- to lose your grip — If you lose your grip, you become less efficient and less confident, and less able to deal with things.
- to slip your mind — If something slips your mind, you forget it.
- top-security wing — a wing of a prison, mental hospital, etc that has a very high level of precautions against escape
- topological space — a set with a collection of subsets or open sets satisfying the properties that the union of open sets is an open set, the intersection of two open sets is an open set, and the given set and the empty set are open sets.
- triskaidekaphobia — fear or a phobia concerning the number 13.
- ultrametamorphism — metamorphism during which the temperature of a rock exceeds its melting point.
- uncompassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
- uncooperativeness — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
- undercompensation — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
- unprofessionalism — not professional; not pertaining to or characteristic of a profession.
- utopian socialism — (sometimes initial capital letter) an economic system based on the premise that if capital voluntarily surrendered its ownership of the means of production to the state or the workers, unemployment and poverty would be abolished.
- vacant possession — ownership of an unoccupied house or property, any previous owner or tenant having departed
- vacuum aspiration — menstrual extraction.
- vermiform process — vermiform appendix.
- video disk player — a device that reads the information on a video disc
- warehouse receipt — a receipt for goods placed in a warehouse.
- weapons inspector — a person who inspects a country's weapons
- weeping lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
- well-accomplished — completed; done; effected: an accomplished fact.
- wild sweet potato — man-of-the-earth.
- wireless operator — a radio operator
- wood preservative — a coating applied to timber as a protection against decay, insects, weather, etc
- 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.
- zygomatic process — any of several bony processes that articulate with the cheekbone.