18-letter words containing s, y, t, l
- super royal octavo — a book size, 63⁄4 by 101⁄4 inches
- super royal quarto — a book size, 101⁄4 by 131⁄2 inches
- symbolist movement — a movement beginning in French and Belgian poetry towards the end of the 19th century with the verse of Mallarmé, Valéry, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Maeterlinck, and others, and seeking to express states of mind rather than objective reality by making use of the power of words and images to suggest as well as denote
- take sth literally — If you take something literally, you think that a word or expression is being used with its most simple or basic meaning.
- television company — a company that broadcasts programmes by television
- the encyclopedists — the writers of the French Encyclopedia (1751-72) edited by Diderot and d'Alembert, which contained the advanced ideas of the period
- the hotel industry — the branch of the services industry which provides hotels
- the same old story — the familiar or regular course of events
- the welsh assembly — the elected assembly for Wales, based in Cardiff, that has certain powers devolved from the UK government
- to close your mind — If you close your mind to something, you deliberately do not think about it or pay attention to it.
- to cool your heels — If you are cooling your heels, someone is deliberately keeping you waiting, so that you get bored or impatient.
- to gird your loins — If you gird your loins, you prepare to do something difficult or dangerous.
- to lose your nerve — If you lose your nerve, you suddenly panic and become too afraid to do something that you were about to do.
- to play favourites — to display favouritism
- to spill your guts — if someone spills their guts, they tell you everything about something secret or private
- translation agency — an organization that provide people to translate speech or writing into a different language
- transylvanian alps — a mountain range in S Romania; a SW extension of the Carpathian Mountains. Highest peak: Mount Negoiu, 2548 m (8360 ft)
- treaty obligations — obligations or duties that must be carried out by a party as according to a treaty they have entered into
- unconstitutionally — not constitutional; unauthorized by or inconsistent with the constitution, as of a country.
- unenthusiastically — full of or characterized by enthusiasm; ardent: He seems very enthusiastic about his role in the play.
- universalizability — the thesis that any moral judgment must be equally applicable to every relevantly identical situation
- university faculty — a division within a university comprising one subject area, or a number of related subject areas
- up to the eyeballs — You use up to the eyeballs to emphasize that someone is in an undesirable state to a very great degree.
- visible panty line — the line of someone's underwear which can be seen through trousers
- wesleyan methodist — a member of any of the churches founded on the evangelical principles of John Wesley.
- west puente valley — a town in SW California.
- western isles pony — a breed of large pony, typically grey, with a dense waterproof coat. The only surviving variety is the Eriskay pony
- white-spotted hyla — a type of tree frog (H. leucophyllata) of tropical America
- wildlife sanctuary — an area where wild animals and plants are protected
- wireless telephony — Now Rare. radiotelephony.
- with flying colors — with flying colors, with an overwhelming victory, triumph, or success: He passed the test with flying colors.
- withdrawal symptom — effects of stopping a drug
- yeast nucleic acid — RNA.
- yves saint laurent — Louis Stephen [lwee ste-fen] /lwi stɛˈfɛn/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, prime minister of Canada 1948–57.
- zermelo set theory — (mathematics) A set theory with the following set of axioms: Extensionality: two sets are equal if and only if they have the same elements. Union: If U is a set, so is the union of all its elements. Pair-set: If a and b are sets, so is {a, b}. Foundation: Every set contains a set disjoint from itself. Comprehension (or Restriction): If P is a formula with one free variable and X a set then {x: x is in X and P(x)}. is a set. Infinity: There exists an infinite set. Power-set: If X is a set, so is its power set. Zermelo set theory avoids Russell's paradox by excluding sets of elements with arbitrary properties - the Comprehension axiom only allows a property to be used to select elements of an existing set.