16-letter words containing o, y, s, t, e
- the roaring days — the period of the Australian goldrushes
- the story of mel — The story of Mel, a Real Programmer
- the west country — the southwest of England, esp Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset
- the years of sth — the period when sth happened or existed
- the yellow press — (formerly) popular newspapers publishing sensational stories
- there's no hurry — If you say to someone 'There's no hurry' or 'I'm in no hurry' you are telling them that there is no need for them to do something immediately.
- thermoplasticity — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- time sovereignty — control by an employee of the use of his or her time, involving flexibility of working hours
- to dip your toes — If you dip your toes into something or dip your toes into the waters of something, you start doing that thing slowly and carefully, because you are not sure whether it will be successful or whether you will like it.
- to get your oats — to have sexual intercourse regularly
- to pay dividends — If something pays dividends, it brings advantages at a later date.
- to say the least — at the minimum
- to spend a penny — If someone says that they are going to spend a penny, they mean that they are going to go to the toilet.
- tokugawa iyeyasu — Tokugawa [taw-koo-gah-wah] /ˈtɔ kuˈgɑ wɑ/ (Show IPA), 1542–1616, Japanese general and public servant.
- top drive system — A top drive system is a system which includes a motor that turns the drill string, used instead of the kelly.
- transfer company — a company that transports people or luggage for a relatively short distance, as between terminals of two railroad lines.
- transmethylation — the transfer of a methyl group from one compound to another.
- twenty questions — an oral game in which one player selects a word or object whose identity the other players attempt to guess by asking up to twenty questions that can be answered with a yes or a no.
- two-family house — a house designed for occupation by two families in contiguous apartments, as on separate floors.
- two-party system — a political system consisting chiefly of two major parties, more or less equal in strength.
- two-stroke cycle — See under two-cycle.
- unostentatiously — (of a person) in a manner that is not trying to impress people with one's wealth or importance
- up to one's eyes — extremely busy (with)
- utility software — system software that manages and optimizes the performance of hardware
- vegetable oyster — salsify.
- voluntary muscle — muscle whose action is normally controlled by an individual's will; mainly skeletal muscle, composed of parallel bundles of striated, multinucleate fibers.
- voluntary sector — the part of the economy that consists of non-profit-making organizations, as opposed to the public and private sectors
- way of the cross — stations of the cross.
- weather advisory — advisory (def 5).
- windows registry — (operating system) The database used by Microsoft Windows 95 and later to store all sorts of configuration information such as which program should be used to open a .doc file, DLL registration information, application-specific settings and much more. The Registry is stored in .dat files, one in the user's profile containing their per-user settings and one in the Windows directory containing settings that are global to all users. These are loaded into memory at login. The loaded data appears as a tree with five main branches: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, HKEY_USERS, HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT defines file types and actions, HKEY_CURRENT_USER is an alias for one of the sub-trees of HKEY_USERS and contains user settings that override the global defaults in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. The branches of the tree are called "keys" and are identified by paths like HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion. Any node in the tree can have zero or more "values" which are actually bindings of a name and a value, e.g. "Logon User Name" = "Denis". The value can be of type string, binary, dword (long integer), multi-string value or expandable string value. Windows includes a Registry Editor (regedit.exe).
- woody nightshade — bittersweet (def 3).
- worcester oyster — a drink consisting of raw unbeaten egg, Worcester sauce, salt, and pepper: a supposed cure for a hangover
- yellowstone lake — a lake in NW Wyoming, in Yellowstone National Park. 20 miles (32 km) long; 140 sq. mi. (363 sq. km).