17-letter words containing s, y, c, o, i
- take into custody — to arrest
- 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.
- 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 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.
- top-security wing — a wing of a prison, mental hospital, etc that has a very high level of precautions against escape
- transitory action — an action that can be brought in any country regardless of where it originated
- 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.
- unselfconsciously — in an unselfconscious manner
- voice synthesizer — a computer system that is used to artificially produce the human voice
- woolly rhinoceros — an extinct rhinoceros; Coelodonta antiquitatis
- year of confusion — (in ancient Rome) the year of 445 days preceding the introduction, in 46 b.c., of the Julian calendar: lengthened to compensate for the cumulative errors of the Roman calendar.
- zygomatic process — any of several bony processes that articulate with the cheekbone.