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17-letter words containing t, y, d, e

  • scentless mayweed — a similar and related plant, Matricaria maritima, with scentless leaves
  • seaweed marquetry — marquetry having the form of symmetrical, foliate scrolls, as on English cabinetwork of the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
  • secondary battery — storage battery.
  • secondary boycott — a boycott by union members against their employer in order to induce the employer to bring pressure on another company involved in a labor dispute with the union.
  • secondary contact — communication or relationship between people characterized by impersonal and detached interest on the part of those involved.
  • secondary product — a product that is not the main product of an industry; a by-product
  • secondary quality — one of the qualities attributed by the mind to an object perceived, such as color, temperature, or taste.
  • serendipity berry — miracle fruit (def 2).
  • shorthold tenancy — letting of a dwelling for between one and five years at a fair rent
  • shuttle diplomacy — diplomatic negotiations carried out by a mediator who travels back and forth between the negotiating parties.
  • sodium pyroborate — borax1 .
  • sodium salicylate — a white, crystalline compound, C 7 H 5 NaO 3 , soluble in water, alcohol, and glycerol: used in medicine as an analgesic, antipyretic, and anti-inflammatory, and as a preservative.
  • specific humidity — the ratio of the mass of water vapor in air to the total mass of the mixture of air and water vapor.
  • speech difficulty — a problem encountered in speaking
  • split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
  • spondylolisthesis — the forward displacement of a vertebra.
  • stage-door johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
  • stand on ceremony — to insist on or act with excessive formality
  • strawberry blonde — woman: with reddish fair hair
  • sunday supplement — a special section incorporated in the Sunday editions of many newspapers, often containing features on books, celebrities, home entertainment, gardening, and the like.
  • superconductivity — the phenomenon of almost perfect conductivity shown by certain substances at temperatures approaching absolute zero. The recent discovery of materials that are superconductive at temperatures hundreds of degrees above absolute zero raises the possibility of revolutionary developments in the production and transmission of electrical energy.
  • take into custody — to arrest
  • tay-sachs disease — a rare fatal hereditary disease, occurring chiefly in infants and children, especially of eastern European Jewish origin, characterized by a red spot on the retina, gradual blindness, and paralysis.
  • the death penalty — capital punishment
  • the evil day/hour — If someone is putting off the evil day or the evil hour, they have to do something unpleasant and are trying to avoid doing it for as long as possible.
  • the good old days — When people refer to the good old days, they are referring to a time in the past when they think that life was better than it is now.
  • the lord's prayer — the, the prayer given by Jesus to His disciples, and beginning with the words Our Father. Matt. 6:9–13; Luke 11:2–4.
  • the penny dropped — If you say the penny dropped, you mean that someone suddenly understood or realized something.
  • the underemployed — underemployed people
  • thermoperiodicity — the effect on an organism of rhythmic fluctuations in temperature.
  • three-day eventer — a rider or horse that takes part in three-day eventing
  • to drag your feet — If you drag your feet or drag your heels, you delay doing something or do it very slowly because you do not want to do it.
  • to get psyched up — to prepare mentally
  • to keep your head — If you keep your head, you remain calm in a difficult situation. If you lose your head, you panic or do not remain calm in a difficult situation.
  • 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 play the field — If someone plays the field, they have a number of different romantic or sexual relationships.
  • tolpuddle martyrs — six farm workers sentenced to transportation for seven years in 1834 for administering an unlawful oath to form a trade union in the village of Tolpuddle, Dorset
  • tourette syndrome — a neurological disorder characterized by recurrent involuntary movements, including multiple neck jerks and sometimes vocal tics, as grunts, barks, or words, especially obscenities.
  • tridimensionality — having three dimensions.
  • try one's hand at — to attempt (to do something), esp. for the first time
  • turbidity current — a turbid, dense current of sediments in suspension moving along the slope and bottom of a lake or ocean.
  • turner's syndrome — an abnormal congenital condition resulting from a defect on or absence of the second sex chromosome, characterized by retarded growth of the gonads.
  • understandability — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
  • undulatory theory — wave theory (def 1).
  • university degree — an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study
  • wade-giles system — a system of Romanization of Chinese, devised by Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818–95) and adapted by Herbert Allen Giles (1845–1935), widely used in representing Chinese words and names in English, especially before the adoption of pinyin.
  • with a heavy hand — in a heavy manner; without delicacy or grace
  • yesterday evening — during the evening of the day preceding today
  • yesterday morning — during the morning of the day preceding today
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