17-letter words containing p, u, t, y, o, r
- to keep your head — If you keep your head, you remain calm in a difficult situation. If you lose your head, you panic or do not remain calm in a difficult situation.
- 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 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 open your mind — If something opens your mind to new ideas or experiences, it makes you more willing to accept them or try them.
- 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
- top-security wing — a wing of a prison, mental hospital, etc that has a very high level of precautions against escape
- unconformity trap — An unconformity trap is a hydrocarbon trap where the closure is made by an unconformity (= a formation of rock layers which represents a gap in the geological record).
- unemployment rate — percentage of population without jobs
- unify corporation — (company) Developers of the Unify relational database. At one time, before Sybase, they were a competitor of Oracle, et al.
- unproportionately — proportioned; being in due proportion; proportional.
- youth programming — the creation and scheduling of television programmes specifically aimed at young people