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17-letter words containing t, h, e, s, l

  • shoestring tackle — a tackle made around the ankles of the ball carrier.
  • shorthold tenancy — letting of a dwelling for between one and five years at a fair rent
  • shuttle diplomacy — diplomatic negotiations carried out by a mediator who travels back and forth between the negotiating parties.
  • simulated leather — fake leather that is an imitation of real leather and is usually made from a cheaper material
  • sinbad the sailor — a merchant in The Arabian Nights who makes seven adventurous voyages
  • single-sheet feed — a mechanism for feeding or taking single sheets of paper into a printer
  • slap on the wrist — a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
  • socratic elenchus — the drawing out of the consequences of a position in order to show them to be contrary to some accepted position
  • south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • south lanarkshire — a council area of S Scotland, comprising the S part of the historical county of Lanarkshire: included within Strathclyde Region from 1975 to 1996: has uplands in the S and part of the Glasgow conurbation in the N: mainly agricultural. Administrative centre: Hamilton. Pop: 303 010 (2003 est). Area: 1771 sq km (684 sq miles)
  • south sea islands — the islands in the S Pacific that constitute Oceania
  • southern triangle — the constellation Triangulum Australe.
  • spectroheliograph — an apparatus for making photographs of the sun with a monochromatic light to show the details of the sun's surface and surroundings as they would appear if the sun emitted only that light.
  • spectrohelioscope — a spectroheliograph.
  • speech difficulty — a problem encountered in speaking
  • spinal anesthesia — interruption of conduction of nerve impulses by the injection of an anesthetic into the spinal canal that reduces sensitivity to pain without loss of consciousness.
  • spiritual healing — faith healing
  • spondylolisthesis — the forward displacement of a vertebra.
  • spore mother cell — a cell from which a spore is produced
  • square the circle — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
  • stannous chloride — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, SnCl 2 ⋅2H 2 O, used chiefly as a reducing and tinning agent, and as a mordant in dyeing with cochineal.
  • star of bethlehem — the star that is supposed to have appeared above Bethlehem at the birth of Christ
  • star-of-bethlehem — any of several plants belonging to the genus Ornithogalum, of the lily family, having grasslike leaves and clusters of white flowers.
  • stenothermophilic — growing best within a narrow temperature range.
  • 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.
  • sting in the tail — an unexpected and unpleasant ending
  • stretch limousine — a limousine that has been lengthened to provide extra seating accommodation and more legroom
  • striped killifish — a killifish, Fundulus majalis, of the Atlantic coast of the U.S., the female of which is marked with black stripes.
  • sulfurated potash — a yellowish-brown mixture consisting mainly of potassium polysulfides and potassium thiosulfate, used in treating mange.
  • sulphur butterfly — sulfur butterfly.
  • swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
  • 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
  • synthetic biology — the application of computer science techniques to create artificial biological systems
  • 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 hospital — a hospital associated with a medical college and offering clinical and other facilities to those in various areas of medical study, as students, interns, and residents.
  • 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 message — a message that is transmitted by telephone
  • 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
  • television rights — the rights to televise something, such as a sporting event
  • tertiary syphilis — the third stage of syphilis, characterized by involvement of the internal organs, especially the brain, spinal cord, heart, and liver.
  • the bright lights — places of entertainment in a city
  • the cold shoulder — a show of indifference; slight
  • the establishment — a group or class of people having institutional authority within a society, esp those who control the civil service, the government, the armed forces, and the Church: usually identified with a conservative outlook
  • the facts of life — the details of sexual behaviour and reproduction, esp as told to children
  • the final whistle — a blast on a referee's whistle to indicate that a game is over
  • 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 good old days — When people refer to the good old days, they are referring to a time in the past when they think that life was better than it is now.
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