16-letter words containing t, o, p, u, y
- speech community — the aggregate of all the people who use a given language or dialect.
- start-up company — new business
- to bite your lip — If you bite your lip or your tongue, you stop yourself from saying something that you want to say, because it would be the wrong thing to say in the circumstances.
- to blow your top — If someone blows their top, they become very angry about something.
- to dip your toes — If you dip your toes into something or dip your toes into the waters of something, you start doing that thing slowly and carefully, because you are not sure whether it will be successful or whether you will like it.
- to put it mildly — to state it with or as if with restraint
- trucking company — a company that transports goods by lorry
- typhoid bacillus — the bacterium Salmonella typhosa, causing typhoid fever.
- unapologetically — containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury, etc.: An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.
- under-employment — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
- unproportionally — having due proportion; corresponding.
- up to one's eyes — extremely busy (with)
- ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
- voluntary helper — a person who aids or assists in a specified function of one's own accord and without compulsion or promise of remuneration