17-letter words containing t, o, n, e, y
- elementary school — primary school
- emergency rations — food and drink that is designated for use in an emergency: for example, in a famine, after a plane crash, when hill-walkers or mountaineers are stranded, etc.
- employee benefits — benefits, such as health insurance, pension payments, or childcare, given to employees in addition to their usual salary or wage
- employee discount — When the employees of a store or other retail business are entitled to an employee discount, they do not have to pay the full price for goods they buy in the store.
- employment agency — company: finds jobs
- employment equity — a policy or programme designed to reserve jobs for people formerly disadvantaged under apartheid
- employment office — any of a number of government offices established to collect and supply to the unemployed information about job vacancies and to employers information about availability of prospective workers
- encephalomyelitic — Relating to encephalomyelitis.
- encephalomyelitis — Inflammation of the brain and spinal cord, typically due to acute viral infection.
- entry examination — the examination people wishing to enter an organization, university, etc, have to take
- equal opportunity — policies that bar discrimination
- ethinyloestradiol — Alternative form of ethinylestradiol.
- ethnopharmacology — The scientific study correlating ethnic groups, their health, and how it relates to their physical habits and methodology in creating and using medicines.
- ethylmethylketone — (organic compound) The industrial solvent butanone.
- excess employment — excessive numbers of employees for the amount of work available
- extraordinary ray — the plane-polarized ray of light that does not obey the laws of refraction in a doubly refracting crystal
- factory inspector — a person who inspects factories
- fellow countryman — sb of same nationality
- floating currency — a currency that is free to fluctuate against other currencies in accordance with market forces
- footmen's gallery — the rearmost section of seats in the balcony of an English theater, especially in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
- foreign secretary — foreign minister.
- fraternal society — a club or other association, usually of men, having a limited membership and devoted to professional, religious, charitable, or social activities.
- friend of dorothy — a male homosexual
- front-end payment — a payment required or incurred in advance of a project in order to get it under way
- front-line player — a regular player on a sports team or one who plays in the farthest forward position
- gastroenterostomy — the making of a new passage between the stomach and the duodenum (gastroduodenostomy) or, especially, the jejunum (gastrojejunostomy)
- gastrojejunostomy — See under gastroenterostomy.
- geothermal energy — Geothermal energy is energy from temperature differences inside the earth's crust.
- glory-of-the-snow — any of several plants belonging to the genus Chionodoxa, of the lily family, native to the Old World, having showy, blue, white, or pink flowers that bloom early in the spring.
- go to the country — If a head of government or a government goes to the country, they hold a general election.
- guilty conscience — Your conscience is the part of your mind that tells you whether what you are doing is right or wrong. If you have a guilty conscience, you feel guilty about something because you know it was wrong. If you have a clear conscience, you do not feel guilty because you know you have done nothing wrong.
- haematocrystallin — Alternative form of hematocrystallin.
- haemoglobinopathy — (medicine) Any of a group of inherited disorders in which haemoglobin does not function properly.
- hamiltonian cycle — Hamiltonian problem
- henry cabot lodge — Henry Cabot, 1850–1924, U.S. public servant and author: senator 1893–1924.
- henry of portugal — ("the Navigator") 1394–1460, prince of Portugal: sponsor of geographic explorations.
- heteronormativity — The view that all human beings are either male or female, both in sex and in gender, and that sexual and romantic thoughts and relations are normal only when between people of different sexes.
- homeland security — national defence
- hydrothermal vent — an opening on the floor of the sea from which hot, mineral-rich solutions issue. Compare vent1 (def 2).
- hydroxytryptamine — (organic compound) Any hydroxy derivative of tryptamine, but especially 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin).
- hyperalimentation — overfeeding.
- hyperbolic secant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of cosh; sech
- hyperchlorination — Chemistry. to combine or treat with chlorine. to introduce chlorine atoms into an organic compound by an addition or substitution reaction.
- hyperconnectivity — Hyperconnectivity is the use of many systems and devices so that you are always connected to social networks and other sources of information.
- hyperinflationary — (economics) Having very high levels of inflation.
- hyperpigmentation — coloration, especially of the skin.
- hyperpolarisation — Alternative spelling of hyperpolarization.
- hyperpolarization — The act or process of hyperpolarizing.
- hyposensitization — The state or process of being reduced in sensitivity especially to an allergen.
- hysteron proteron — a figure of speech in which the logical order of two elements in discourse is reversed, as in “bred and born” for “born and bred.”.