17-letter words containing o, u, t, l, y
- psycholinguistics — the study of the relationship between language and the cognitive or behavioral characteristics of those who use it.
- publicity officer — a person who is employed to get publicity for an organization, or to provide information about it
- reticulate python — a python, Python reticulatus, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, sometimes growing to a length of 32 feet (10 meters): usually considered to be the largest snake in the world.
- revolutionary war — American Revolution.
- rotary cultivator — a machine for breaking up and tilling soil, consisting of a series of blades mounted on a revolving power-driven shaft
- royal institution — a British society founded in 1799 for the dissemination of scientific knowledge
- secondary quality — one of the qualities attributed by the mind to an object perceived, such as color, temperature, or taste.
- shuttle diplomacy — diplomatic negotiations carried out by a mediator who travels back and forth between the negotiating parties.
- situational irony — irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected.
- slowly but surely — If you say that something is happening slowly but surely, you mean that it is happening gradually but it is definitely happening.
- sodium salicylate — a white, crystalline compound, C 7 H 5 NaO 3 , soluble in water, alcohol, and glycerol: used in medicine as an analgesic, antipyretic, and anti-inflammatory, and as a preservative.
- 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 holiday — a public holiday; a holiday all workers are entitled to
- suction lipectomy — the removal of fatty tissue by making a small incision in the skin, loosening the fat layer, and withdrawing it by suction.
- tell your fortune — When someone tells your fortune, they tell you what they think will happen to you in the future, which they say is shown, for example, by the lines on your hand.
- the black country — the formerly heavily industrialized region of central England, northwest of Birmingham
- the evil day/hour — If someone is putting off the evil day or the evil hour, they have to do something unpleasant and are trying to avoid doing it for as long as possible.
- the underemployed — underemployed people
- to feel your oats — to feel exuberant or high-spirited
- 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 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.
- to push your luck — If you say that someone is pushing their luck, you think they are taking a bigger risk than is sensible, and may get into trouble.
- to slip your mind — If something slips your mind, you forget it.
- 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
- troilus butterfly — spicebush swallowtail.
- uncompassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
- unconscientiously — governed by conscience; controlled by or done according to one's inner sense of what is right; principled: She's a conscientious judge, who does not let personal prejudices influence her decisions.
- unconventionality — disregard for convention; the state or quality of being inconsistent with customs, rules, etc.; originality.
- undulatory theory — wave theory (def 1).
- unemployment line — When people talk about the unemployment line, they are talking about the state of being unemployed, especially when saying how many people are unemployed.
- unemployment rate — percentage of population without jobs
- unproportionately — proportioned; being in due proportion; proportional.
- urogenital system — the urinary tract and reproductive organs
- village community — an early form of community organization in which land belonged to the village, the arable land being allotted to the members or households of the community by more or less permanent arrangements and the waste or excess land remaining undivided.
- yellow-eye mullet — an edible mullet, Aldrichetta forsteri, found in coastal waters of New Zealand and Australia
- 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.
- you're telling me — I know, I'm well aware
- youth-and-old-age — a stiff-growing, erect composite plant, Zinnia elegans, of Mexico, having large, solitary flowers with yellow-to-purple disks and usually red rays.
- 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.