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17-letter words containing o, y, s, t, e

  • testimony meeting — a meeting at which persons give testimonies of religious faith and related religious experiences.
  • the barbary coast — a historic name for the Mediterranean coast of North Africa: a centre of piracy against European shipping from the 16th to the 19th centuries
  • the good old days — When people refer to the good old days, they are referring to a time in the past when they think that life was better than it is now.
  • the lord's prayerthe, the prayer given by Jesus to His disciples, and beginning with the words Our Father. Matt. 6:9–13; Luke 11:2–4.
  • theory of numbers — number theory.
  • to feel your oats — to feel exuberant or high-spirited
  • to get psyched up — to prepare mentally
  • 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 open your eyes — If something opens your eyes, it makes you aware that something is different from the way that you thought it was.
  • to risk your neck — If you say that someone is risking their neck, you mean they are doing something very dangerous, often in order to achieve something.
  • to see eye to eye — If you see eye to eye with someone, you agree with them and have the same opinions and views.
  • to show your face — If you show your face somewhere, you go there and see people, although you are not welcome, are rather unwilling to go, or have not been there for some time.
  • 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
  • top-security wing — a wing of a prison, mental hospital, etc that has a very high level of precautions against escape
  • tourette syndrome — a neurological disorder characterized by recurrent involuntary movements, including multiple neck jerks and sometimes vocal tics, as grunts, barks, or words, especially obscenities.
  • trackless trolley — trolley bus.
  • tridimensionality — having three dimensions.
  • troilus butterfly — spicebush swallowtail.
  • try one's hand at — to attempt (to do something), esp. for the first time
  • turner's syndrome — an abnormal congenital condition resulting from a defect on or absence of the second sex chromosome, characterized by retarded growth of the gonads.
  • twenty four seven — continually; constantly: They're together 24/7.
  • twenty-four hours — the time taken by the Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis; a whole day
  • twenty-four seven — continually; constantly: They're together 24/7.
  • twenty-four-seven — continually; constantly: They're together 24/7.
  • 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.
  • unity of interest — the equal interest in property held by joint tenants
  • urogenital system — the urinary tract and reproductive organs
  • visitors' gallery — a balcony in a building such as a parliament or court where members of the public can sit
  • voice synthesizer — a computer system that is used to artificially produce the human voice
  • yellowstone falls — a waterfall in NW Wyoming, in Yellowstone National Park on the Yellowstone River
  • yellowstone river — river flowing from NW Wyo. through Mont. into the Missouri River: 671 mi (1,080 km)
  • yesterday morning — during the morning of the day preceding today
  • yorkshire terrier — one of an English breed of toy terriers having a long, silky, straight coat that is dark steel blue from the back of the skull to the tail and tan on the head, chest, and legs.
  • zygomatic process — any of several bony processes that articulate with the cheekbone.
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