17-letter words containing y, e, n, t, a
- stand on ceremony — to insist on or act with excessive formality
- stationary engine — an engine mounted in a fixed position, as one used for driving generators, compressors, etc.
- statutory meeting — company shareholders' discussion
- statutory offense — a wrong punishable under a statute, rather than at common law.
- stay of execution — If you are given a stay of execution, you are legally allowed to delay obeying an order of a court of law.
- steamship company — a company which has a fleet of steamships
- strawberry blonde — woman: with reddish fair hair
- stray capacitance — undesired capacitance in equipment, occurring between the wiring, between the wiring and the chassis, or between components and the chassis
- subclavian artery — either of a pair of arteries, one on each side of the body, that carry the main supply of blood to the arms.
- sunbury-on-thames — a town in SE England, in N Surrey. Pop: 27 415 (2001)
- 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.
- supply management — business purchasing
- take into custody — to arrest
- temporary account — A temporary account is an account which is closed out at the end of the year.
- tenancy agreement — property rental contract
- tenancy in common — a holding of property, usually real, by two or more persons with each owning an undivided share and with no right of survivorship.
- terminal capacity — The terminal capacity is the volume which can be stored in a terminal (= building or area with tanks).
- terminal velocity — Physics. the velocity at which a falling body moves through a medium, as air, when the force of resistance of the medium is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the force of gravity. the maximum velocity of a body falling through a viscous fluid.
- ternary operation — an operation in a mathematical system by which three elements are combined to yield a single result.
- tertiary consumer — a carnivore at the topmost level in a food chain that feeds on other carnivores; an animal that feeds only on secondary consumers.
- thabana-ntlenyana — a mountain in Lesotho: the highest peak of the Drakensberg Mountains. Height: 3482 m (11 425 ft)
- the alpine valley — a straight fracture on the moon that cuts the Alps in two
- the black country — the formerly heavily industrialized region of central England, northwest of Birmingham
- the death penalty — capital punishment
- the pennsylvanian — the Pennsylvanian period or rock system, equivalent to the Upper Carboniferous of Europe
- three-day eventer — a rider or horse that takes part in three-day eventing
- thyestean banquet — a banquet at which human flesh is served
- to have it in you — If you have it in you, you have abilities and skills which you do not usually use and which only show themselves in a difficult situation.
- tridimensionality — having three dimensions.
- try one's hand at — to attempt (to do something), esp. for the first time
- tympanic membrane — eardrum.
- tyrant flycatcher — flycatcher (def 2).
- uncompassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
- unconventionality — disregard for convention; the state or quality of being inconsistent with customs, rules, etc.; originality.
- understandability — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- undulatory theory — wave theory (def 1).
- unemployment rate — percentage of population without jobs
- unproportionately — proportioned; being in due proportion; proportional.
- unsympathetically — in a manner that is not characterized by feeling or showing sympathy
- urogenital system — the urinary tract and reproductive organs
- vertical analysis — the conversion of an organization's profits and losses into overall percentages
- village community — an early form of community organization in which land belonged to the village, the arable land being allotted to the members or households of the community by more or less permanent arrangements and the waste or excess land remaining undivided.
- westminster abbey — a Gothic church in London, England.
- with a heavy hand — in a heavy manner; without delicacy or grace
- x-ray examination — an examination of part of the body, using an X-ray machine
- year in, year out — a period of 365 or 366 days, in the Gregorian calendar, divided into 12 calendar months, now reckoned as beginning Jan. 1 and ending Dec. 31 (calendar year or civil year) Compare common year, leap year.
- yellowstone falls — a waterfall in NW Wyoming, in Yellowstone National Park on the Yellowstone River
- yesterday evening — during the evening of the day preceding today
- yesterday morning — during the morning of the day preceding today
- youth-and-old-age — a stiff-growing, erect composite plant, Zinnia elegans, of Mexico, having large, solitary flowers with yellow-to-purple disks and usually red rays.