17-letter words containing t, i, u

to have it in you — If you have it in you, you have abilities and skills which you do not usually use and which only show themselves in a difficult situation.
to knit your brow — If you knit your brows or knit your eyebrows, you frown because you are angry or worried.
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 little purpose — with little (or no) result or effect; pointlessly
to lose your grip — If you lose your grip, you become less efficient and less confident, and less able to deal with things.
to lose your mind — If you say that someone is losing their mind, you mean that they are becoming mad.
to open your mind — If something opens your mind to new ideas or experiences, it makes you more willing to accept them or try them.
to prime the pump — To prime the pump means to do something to encourage the success or growth of something, especially the economy.
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.
to run its course — If something runs its course or takes its course, it develops naturally and comes to a natural end.
to slip your mind — If something slips your mind, you forget it.
to take your time — If you take your time doing something, you do it quite slowly and do not hurry.
to the lighthouse — a novel (1927) by Virginia Woolf.
top-security wing — a wing of a prison, mental hospital, etc that has a very high level of precautions against escape
topological group — a set that is a group and a topological space and for which the group operation and the map of an element to its inverse are continuous functions.
torricellian tube — a vertical glass tube partly evacuated and partly filled with mercury, the height of which is used as a measure of atmospheric pressure
trailing geranium — an ivy-leaved variety of geranium, Pelargonium peltatum
transfer function — The transfer function of a circuit is the ratio of the response to the input.
trapdoor function — a function defined from data by means of a mathematical procedure in such a way that it is easy to obtain the function when the data are known, but when the procedure and data are not known it becomes very difficult to determine the original data: used in cryptography, where the data are the characters of the plain text, or message, and the trapdoor function is the cryptogram.
triangular matrix — a square matrix in which either all the entries above the principal diagonal, or all the entries below the principal diagonal, are zero.
triboluminescence — luminescence produced by friction, usually within a crystalline substance.
troilus butterfly — spicebush swallowtail.
tropical aquarium — an aquarium designed for the maintenance and breeding of tropical fish and kept at a suitably warm temperature.
trucial sheikdoms — an independent federation in E Arabia, formed in 1971, now comprising seven emirates on the S coast (formerly, Pirate Coast or Trucial Coast) of the Persian Gulf, formerly under British protection: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Qaiwain, Ras al-Khaimah (joined 1972), and Fujairah. About 32,300 sq. mi. (83,657 sq. km). Capital: Abu Dhabi. Abbreviation: U.A.E.
ts'ao hsueh-ch'in — (Ts'ao Chan) c1717–63, Chinese novelist: author of The Dream of the Red Chamber.
tubercle bacillus — the bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, causing tuberculosis.
tuberculin-tested — (of milk) produced by cows that have been certified as free of tuberculosis
tungsten trioxide — a heavy, canary-yellow, water-insoluble powder, WO 3 , used in the manufacture of tungstates.
turbidity current — a turbid, dense current of sediments in suspension moving along the slope and bottom of a lake or ocean.
turbinado (sugar) — a partially refined, granulated, pale-brown sugar obtained by washing raw sugar in a centrifuge until most of the molasses is removed
turkish towelling — woven cloth which is used to make towels, wash cloths, etc
turn-down service — In a hotel, a turn-down service is the preparation of a room for a guest to sleep in by slightly turning back the comforter on the bed, turning down the lights, and so on.
ultimate strength — the quantity of the utmost tensile, compressive, or shearing stress that a given unit area of a certain material is expected to bear without failing.
ultraconservative — extremely conservative, especially in politics.
ultrametamorphism — metamorphism during which the temperature of a rock exceeds its melting point.
ultramicrobalance — a balance for weighing precisely, to a hundredth of a microgram or less, minute quantities of material.
uncle tom's cabin — an antislavery novel (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
uncompassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
unconformity trap — An unconformity trap is a hydrocarbon trap where the closure is made by an unconformity (= a formation of rock layers which represents a gap in the geological record).
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.
unconventionalist — not conventional; not bound by or conforming to convention, rule, or precedent; free from conventionality: an unconventional artist; an unconventional use of material.
unconventionality — disregard for convention; the state or quality of being inconsistent with customs, rules, etc.; originality.
uncooperativeness — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
under the sign of — during that portion of the year when the sun is passing through and thus subject to the influence of (a specified sign of the zodiac)
undercompensation — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
understandability — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
undistinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
unemployment line — When people talk about the unemployment line, they are talking about the state of being unemployed, especially when saying how many people are unemployed.
uniformitarianism — supporting, conforming to, or derived from a theory or doctrine about uniformity, especially on the subject of geology.
unify corporation — (company) Developers of the Unify relational database. At one time, before Sybase, they were a competitor of Oracle, et al.

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