18-letter words containing t, e, r, i, f, y
- safety regulations — regulations or rules that are put in place to ensure a product, event, etc, is safe and not dangerous
- security of tenure — (in Britain) the right of a tenant to continue to occupy a dwelling or site unless the landlord obtains a court order for possession of the property or termination of the tenancy agreement
- self-contradictory — an act or instance of contradicting oneself or itself.
- self-deprecatingly — in a self-deprecating manner
- six-finger country — an isolated area considered as being inhabited by people who practise inbreeding
- society of friends — a Christian denomination, founded in England c. 1650 by George Fox, that has no formal creed, liturgy, or priesthood and rejects violence in human relations, esp. warfare
- symmetric function — a polynomial in several indeterminates that stays the same under any permutation of the indeterminates.
- territory of papua — a former territory of Australia, consisting of SE New Guinea and adjacent islands: now part of Papua New Guinea
- thermal efficiency — the ratio of the work output of a heat engine to the heat input expressed in the same units of energy.
- to play favourites — to display favouritism
- treasury of merits — the superabundant store of merits and satisfactions, comprising those of Christ, the Virgin Mary, and the saints.
- treaty of rijswijk — a treaty signed at Rijswijk in the Netherlands in 1697, ending the War of the Grand Alliance
- treaty of waitangi — a treaty signed in 1840 by Māori chiefs and a representative of the British Government, providing the basis for the British annexation of New Zealand
- university faculty — a division within a university comprising one subject area, or a number of related subject areas
- water of hydration — the portion of a hydrate that is represented as, or can be expelled as, water: now usually regarded as being in true molecular combination with the other atoms of the compound, and not existing in the compound as water.
- wildlife sanctuary — an area where wild animals and plants are protected