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17-letter words containing i, s, t, r

  • television rights — the rights to televise something, such as a sporting event
  • television screen — the flat vertical surface in a television set on which pictures are shown
  • temple of artemis — the temple at Ephesus dedicated to Artemis.
  • terrestrial globe — the planet Earth (usually preceded by the).
  • terrorist bombing — the bombing of a place carried out in order to achieve some goal
  • tertiary consumer — a carnivore at the topmost level in a food chain that feeds on other carnivores; an animal that feeds only on secondary consumers.
  • tertiary syphilis — the third stage of syphilis, characterized by involvement of the internal organs, especially the brain, spinal cord, heart, and liver.
  • texas instruments — (company)   (TI) A US electronics company. A TI engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958. Three TI employees left the company in 1982 to start Compaq. The COOL and OATH C++ class libraries were developed at TI, as were PDL2 and the ASC computer, PC-Scheme and Texas Instruments Pascal.
  • textual criticism — lower criticism.
  • the bag of tricks — every device; everything
  • the bright lights — places of entertainment in a city
  • the carboniferous — the Carboniferous period or rock system
  • the driver's seat — the position of control or dominance
  • the first line of — If you refer to a method as the first line of, for example, defence or treatment, you mean that it is the first or most important method to be used in dealing with a problem.
  • the lower animals — relatively simple or primitive animals and not mammals or vertebrates
  • the lower regions — hell
  • the metamorphosis — a short story (1915) by Franz Kafka.
  • the outside world — You can use the outside world to refer to all the people who do not live in a particular place or who are not involved in a particular situation.
  • the past anterior — a French tense: the pluperfect
  • the prairie state — a nickname for the state of Illinois in the U.S.
  • the primrose path — a pleasurable way of life
  • the rail-splitter — Lincoln2
  • the right side of — in favour with
  • the seven sisters — a group of seven liberal arts colleges in the north-eastern United States, comprised of Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar, and Wellesley Colleges; they were all founded as institutions for women, although Radclife and Vassar are no longer solely for female students.
  • the silent screen — silent films, considered as a whole
  • the silken ladder — a one-act opera by Rossini, telling the story of Giulia, who is secretly married to Dorvil; he visits her bedroom every night by climbing up a ladder made of silk. Giulia's guardian, Dormont, expects her to marry Blansac, but she introduces Blansac to her cousin Lucilla; after much confusion, the two couples are joyfully united
  • the tabloid press — (considered as a whole) newspapers with pages about 30 cm (12 inches) by 40 cm (16 inches), usually characterized by an emphasis on photographs and a concise and often sensational style
  • the upper regions — the sky; heavens
  • the varsity match — a sporting fixture between Oxford and Cambridge university rugby teams
  • the winter season — the season of the year that covers the winter months
  • the-metamorphosis — a short story (1915) by Franz Kafka.
  • thermal diffusion — the separation of constituents, often isotopes, of a fluid under the influence of a temperature gradient.
  • thermal expansion — expansion caused by heat
  • think in terms of — If you say that you are thinking in terms of doing a particular thing, you mean that you are considering it.
  • thiosulfuric acid — an acid, H 2 S 2 O 3 , that may be regarded as sulfuric acid with one oxygen atom replaced by sulfur.
  • thirty years' war — the war, often regarded as a series of wars (1618–48), in central Europe, initially involving a conflict between German Protestants and Catholics and later including political rivalries with France, Sweden, and Denmark opposing the Holy Roman Empire and Spain.
  • thistle butterfly — any nymphalid butterfly of the genus Vanessa, as the red admiral or painted lady.
  • three mile island — an island in the Susquehanna River, near Middletown, Pennsylvania, SE of Harrisburg: scene of a near-disastrous accident at a nuclear plant in 1979 that raised the issue of nuclear-energy safety.
  • three-dimensional — having, or seeming to have, the dimension of depth as well as width and height.
  • three-piece suite — a set of three matching pieces of furniture, usually a combination of a sofa and chairs
  • three-ring circus — a circus having three adjacent rings in which performances take place simultaneously.
  • three-strikes law — a law that mandates a life sentence to a felon convicted for the third time.
  • threshing machine — a machine for removing grains and seeds from straw and chaff.
  • thuringian forest — a forested mountain region in central Germany: a resort area.
  • tiger swallowtail — a yellow swallowtail butterfly, Papilio glaucus, of eastern North America, having the forewings striped with black.
  • tiglath-pileser i — died 1102? b.c, king of Assyria c1115–1102?.
  • 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 lose your mind — If you say that someone is losing their mind, you mean that they are becoming mad.
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