0%

17-letter words containing r, o, y, a, l, t

  • statutory holiday — a public holiday; a holiday all workers are entitled to
  • stereolithography — a process for creating three-dimensional objects using a computer-controlled laser to build up the required structure, layer by layer, from a liquid photopolymer that solidifies.
  • strawberry blonde — woman: with reddish fair hair
  • synchronistically — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
  • terminal velocity — Physics. the velocity at which a falling body moves through a medium, as air, when the force of resistance of the medium is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the force of gravity. the maximum velocity of a body falling through a viscous fluid.
  • 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 factory floor — all the workers in a factory
  • 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.
  • to feel your oats — to feel exuberant or high-spirited
  • to play it by ear — If you play it by ear, you decide what to say or do in a situation by responding to events rather than by following a plan which you have decided on in advance.
  • to play with fire — If you say that someone is playing with fire, you mean that they are doing something dangerous that may result in great harm for them and cause many problems.
  • 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
  • trackless trolley — trolley bus.
  • tridimensionality — having three dimensions.
  • undulatory theory — wave theory (def 1).
  • unemployment rate — percentage of population without jobs
  • unproportionately — proportioned; being in due proportion; proportional.
  • urogenital system — the urinary tract and reproductive organs
  • variable-geometry — denoting an aircraft in which the wings are hinged to give the variable aspect ratio colloquially known as a swing-wing
  • vertical mobility — movement from one social level to a higher one (upward mobility) or a lower one (downward mobility) as by changing jobs or marrying.
  • visitors' gallery — a balcony in a building such as a parliament or court where members of the public can sit
  • willow flycatcher — a North American flycatcher, Empidonax alnorum, of alder thickets and other moist areas, that has greenish-brown upper parts and whitish underparts and is almost indistinguishable except by voice from E. traillii (willow flycatcher)
  • yellow water lily — any of several water lilies, as the spatterdock, Nuphar luteum, having yellow flowers.
  • 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.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?