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

  • swash plate motor — a collar or face plate on a shaft that is inclined at an oblique angle to the axis of rotation and converts reciprocating motion to rotation
  • sweet mock orange — the syringa, Philadelphus coronarius.
  • tactile corpuscle — an oval sense organ made of flattened cells and encapsulated nerve endings, occurring in hairless skin, as the tips of the fingers and toes, and functioning as a touch receptor.
  • take no prisoners — to be uncompromising and resolute in one's actions
  • take sth by storm — If someone or something takes a place by storm, they are extremely successful.
  • take sth on trust — If you take something on trust after having heard or read it, you believe it completely without checking it.
  • take sth to heart — If you take something to heart, for example someone's behaviour, you are deeply affected and upset by it.
  • take years off sb — If you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has taken years off someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much younger.
  • take-no-prisoners — wholeheartedly aggressive; zealous; gung-ho: a businessman with a take-no-prisoners attitude toward dealmaking.
  • teachers' college — a college, usually having a four-year curriculum and granting a bachelor's degree, for training teachers for elementary and secondary schools
  • teaching software — computer software for use in providing online education
  • technical support — an advising and troubleshooting service provided by a manufacturer, typically a software or hardware developer, to its customers, often online or on the telephone.
  • teething problems — If a project or new product has teething problems, it has problems in its early stages or when it first becomes available.
  • teething troubles — Teething troubles are the same as teething problems.
  • telephone numbers — extremely large numbers, esp in reference to salaries or prices
  • telephone service — a company or public utility that provides a telephone-operating service
  • telescopic damper — a device with telescopic parts that reduce vibration in a motor vehicle
  • television rights — the rights to televise something, such as a sporting event
  • television screen — the flat vertical surface in a television set on which pictures are shown
  • temple of artemis — the temple at Ephesus dedicated to Artemis.
  • terrestrial globe — the planet Earth (usually preceded by the).
  • terrorist bombing — the bombing of a place carried out in order to achieve some goal
  • tertiary consumer — a carnivore at the topmost level in a food chain that feeds on other carnivores; an animal that feeds only on secondary consumers.
  • the age of reason — the 18th century in W Europe
  • the bag of tricks — every device; everything
  • 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 carboniferous — the Carboniferous period or rock system
  • the cold shoulder — a show of indifference; slight
  • the first line of — If you refer to a method as the first line of, for example, defence or treatment, you mean that it is the first or most important method to be used in dealing with a problem.
  • the horse's mouth — the most reliable source
  • the lord's prayer — the, the prayer given by Jesus to His disciples, and beginning with the words Our Father. Matt. 6:9–13; Luke 11:2–4.
  • the lower animals — relatively simple or primitive animals and not mammals or vertebrates
  • the lower mammals — relatively simple or primitive mammals
  • the lower regions — hell
  • the major leagues — the two main leagues of professional baseball clubs in the U.S., the National League and the American League
  • the metamorphosis — a short story (1915) by Franz Kafka.
  • the outside world — You can use the outside world to refer to all the people who do not live in a particular place or who are not involved in a particular situation.
  • the past anterior — a French tense: the pluperfect
  • the peace process — negotiations (between governments, countries, ect) towards peace or the resolution of a conflict
  • the popular press — cheap newspapers with a mass circulation; the tabloid press
  • the primrose path — a pleasurable way of life
  • the right side of — in favour with
  • the smallest room — a euphemistic way of referring to the room the lavatory
  • the tabloid press — (considered as a whole) newspapers with pages about 30 cm (12 inches) by 40 cm (16 inches), usually characterized by an emphasis on photographs and a concise and often sensational style
  • the upper regions — the sky; heavens
  • the winter season — the season of the year that covers the winter months
  • the-metamorphosis — a short story (1915) by Franz Kafka.
  • theodore sturgeon — Theodore (Hamilton) 1918–85, U.S. science-fiction writer.
  • theory of numbers — number theory.
  • thermal diffusion — the separation of constituents, often isotopes, of a fluid under the influence of a temperature gradient.
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