16-letter words containing t, r, y, l
- social secretary — a personal secretary employed to make social appointments and handle personal correspondence.
- software library — a collection of programs that are used to develop software
- southerly buster — a sudden violent cold wind on the SE coast of Australia causing a rapid drop in temperature
- sprinkler system — apparatus for automatically extinguishing fires in a building, consisting of a system of water pipes in or below the ceilings, with valves or sprinklers usually made to open automatically at a certain temperature.
- st. lucie cherry — mahaleb.
- stereoregularity — (of a polymer) the degree to which successive configurations in space along the chain follow a simple rule. Also called tacticity. Compare configuration (def 4).
- 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.
- strawberry blite — a plant, Chenopodium capitatum, having dense, rounded clusters of minute reddish flowers.
- strawberry blond — reddish blond.
- strict liability — responsibility for damage or loss regardless of intention or culpability
- strongyloidiasis — an intestinal disease caused by infection with the nematode worm Strongyloides stercoralis
- styralyl acetate — methylphenylcarbinyl acetate.
- sulfur butterfly — any of various yellow or orange butterflies of the family Pieridae.
- symmetry element — any of four points, lines, or planes of a crystal: a center of symmetry, a reflection plane, a rotation axis, or a rotation-inversion axis.
- synchrocyclotron — a type of cyclotron that synchronizes its accelerating voltage with particle velocity in order to compensate for the relativistic mass increase of the particle as it approaches the speed of light.
- taft-hartley act — an act of the U.S. Congress (1947) that supersedes but continues most of the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act and that, in addition, provides for an eighty-day injunction against strikes that endanger public health and safety and bans closed shops, featherbedding, secondary boycotts, jurisdictional strikes, and certain other union practices.
- taimyr peninsula — a peninsula in the N Russian Federation in Asia, between the Kara and Laptev seas.
- take holy orders — to become ordained
- take the liberty — do sth without permission
- tephrochronology — a geochronologic technique based on the dating of layers of volcanic ash.
- territorial army — The Territorial Army is a British armed force whose members are not professional soldiers but train as soldiers in their spare time.
- tertiary college — a college system incorporating the secondary school sixth form and vocational courses
- tetrahydrozoline — a compound, C 13 H 16 N 2 , used in the treatment of nasal congestion and certain conditions of eye irritation.
- the early church — the Christian church in the centuries immediately following Christ's death
- the eternal city — Rome
- the first family — a President's family
- the hitler youth — a Nazi paramilitary youth organization (1922-45)
- the holy trinity — God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit
- the oil industry — the industry that produces and delivers petroleum and petroleum products
- the story of mel — The story of Mel, a Real Programmer
- the yellow press — (formerly) popular newspapers publishing sensational stories
- the-card-players — a painting (1892) by Paul Cézanne.
- thermal analysis — any analysis of materials in which properties relating to heat, such as freezing and boiling temperatures, the heat of fusion, the heat of vaporization, etc., are measured.
- thermoplasticity — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- thick-tailed ray — Ichthyology. any ray of the order Rajiformes, having a relatively thick, fleshy tail, including the guitarfishes and the skates.
- thionyl chloride — a clear, pale yellow or red, fuming, corrosive liquid, SOCl 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- three-point play — a play in which a player sinks the free throw that was awarded when the player was fouled while scoring a basket.
- 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 hold your own — If you hold your own, you are able to resist someone who is attacking or opposing you.
- 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.
- to try your luck — If someone tries their luck at something, they try to succeed at it, often when it is very difficult or there is little chance of success.
- transcendentally — transcendent, surpassing, or superior.
- transcrystalline — situated within or passing through the crystals of a substance.
- transmethylation — the transfer of a methyl group from one compound to another.
- transmissibility — capable of being transmitted.
- tray agriculture — hydroponics.
- triboelectricity — electricity generated by friction.
- trimethylglycine — betaine.
- trinitroglycerin — nitroglycerin.