16-letter words containing t, o, m, e, y
- stonecrop family — the plant family Crassulaceae, characterized by succulent herbaceous plants and shrubs with simple, fleshy leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, dehiscent fruit, and including hen-and-chickens, houseleek, kalanchoe, live-forever, orpine, sedum, and stonecrop.
- syncategorematic — Traditional Logic. of or relating to a word that is part of a categorical proposition but is not a term, as all, some, is.
- system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
- systematic error — a persistent error that cannot be attributed to chance.
- systems software — Computers. a collection of system programs for use with a particular computer system.
- terms of payment — The terms of payment of a sale state how and when an invoice is to be paid.
- territorial army — The Territorial Army is a British armed force whose members are not professional soldiers but train as soldiers in their spare time.
- thalidomide baby — a baby that has physical abnormalities due to the drug thalidomide being taken by the mother while the baby was still a developing fetus
- the honor system — a reliance on people to behave properly without supervision
- the human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
- the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
- the story of mel — The story of Mel, a Real Programmer
- thermoplasticity — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
- time sovereignty — control by an employee of the use of his or her time, involving flexibility of working hours
- to play for time — If you play for time, you try to make something happen more slowly, because you do not want it to happen or because you need time to think about what to do if it happens.
- top drive system — A top drive system is a system which includes a motor that turns the drill string, used instead of the kelly.
- transfer company — a company that transports people or luggage for a relatively short distance, as between terminals of two railroad lines.
- transmethylation — the transfer of a methyl group from one compound to another.
- two-body problem — the problem of calculating the motions of two bodies in space moving solely under the influence of their mutual gravitational attraction.
- two-family house — a house designed for occupation by two families in contiguous apartments, as on separate floors.
- two-party system — a political system consisting chiefly of two major parties, more or less equal in strength.
- under-employment — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
- ureterolithotomy — incision of a ureter for removal of a calculus.
- voluntary muscle — muscle whose action is normally controlled by an individual's will; mainly skeletal muscle, composed of parallel bundles of striated, multinucleate fibers.
- without ceremony — in a casual or informal manner