17-letter words containing o, n, p, r, e, s
- telephone numbers — extremely large numbers, esp in reference to salaries or prices
- telephone service — a company or public utility that provides a telephone-operating service
- the past anterior — a French tense: the pluperfect
- the upper regions — the sky; heavens
- thermal expansion — expansion caused by heat
- to know the ropes — If you know the ropes, you know how a particular job or task should be done.
- to open your eyes — If something opens your eyes, it makes you aware that something is different from the way that you thought it was.
- top-security wing — a wing of a prison, mental hospital, etc that has a very high level of precautions against escape
- 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.
- war correspondent — a reporter or commentator assigned to send news or opinions directly from battle areas.
- 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.
- weston-super-mare — a town and resort in SW England, in North Somerset unitary authority, Somerset, on the Bristol Channel. Pop: 78 044 (2001)
- 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.
- zero-coupon bonds — Zero-coupon bonds are bonds with no coupons that do not pay interest, and are sold at a large discount from their face value.