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16-letter words containing y, e, n, t

  • the honor system — a reliance on people to behave properly without supervision
  • the human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
  • the king country — an area in the centre of North Island, New Zealand: home of the King Movement, a nineteenth-century Māori separatist movement
  • the leonine city — a district of Rome on the right bank of the Tiber fortified by Pope Leo IV
  • the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
  • the nitty-gritty — the basic facts of a matter, situation, etc; the core
  • the oil industry — the industry that produces and delivers petroleum and petroleum products
  • the one and only — incomparable and unique
  • the roaring days — the period of the Australian goldrushes
  • the sex industry — a commercial sector that employs sex workers in prostitution, pornography, etc.
  • the west country — the southwest of England, esp Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset
  • there's no hurry — If you say to someone 'There's no hurry' or 'I'm in no hurry' you are telling them that there is no need for them to do something immediately.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
  • time sovereignty — control by an employee of the use of his or her time, involving flexibility of working hours
  • tinnevelly senna — any plant, shrub, or tree belonging to the genus Cassia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves and large clusters of flowers.
  • to carry the can — If you have to carry the can, you have to take all the blame for something.
  • to pay dividends — If something pays dividends, it brings advantages at a later date.
  • to spend a penny — If someone says that they are going to spend a penny, they mean that they are going to go to the toilet.
  • transcendentally — transcendent, surpassing, or superior.
  • transcrystalline — situated within or passing through the crystals of a substance.
  • transfer company — a company that transports people or luggage for a relatively short distance, as between terminals of two railroad lines.
  • transfer payment — any payment made by a government for a purpose other than that of purchasing goods or services, as for welfare benefits.
  • transmethylation — the transfer of a methyl group from one compound to another.
  • treaty of verdun — an agreement reached in 843 ad by three grandsons of Charlemagne, dividing his empire into an E kingdom (later Germany), a W kingdom (later France), and a middle kingdom (containing what became the Low Countries, Lorraine, Burgundy, and N Italy)
  • triiodothyronine — Biochemistry. a thyroid hormone, C 15 H 12 I 3 NO 4 , similar to thyroxine but several times more potent.
  • trimethylglycine — betaine.
  • trinitroglycerin — nitroglycerin.
  • trinity brethren — the members of Trinity House
  • triphenylmethane — a colorless, crystalline, solid compound containing three benzene rings, C 19 H 16 , from which many dyes are derived.
  • tropical cyclone — a cyclone that originates over a tropical ocean area and can develop into the destructive storm known in the U.S. as a hurricane, in the western Pacific region as a typhoon, and elsewhere by other names. Compare extratropical cyclone, hurricane (def 1), willy-willy.
  • turn a blind eye — pretend not to see sth
  • twelvepenny nail — a nail that is 3 1/4 inches (8.25 cm) long.
  • twenty questions — an oral game in which one player selects a word or object whose identity the other players attempt to guess by asking up to twenty questions that can be answered with a yes or a no.
  • twenty-four-hour — lasting for twenty-four hours
  • unapologetically — containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury, etc.: An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.
  • uncoincidentally — happening by or resulting from coincidence; by chance: a coincidental meeting.
  • unconventionally — not conventional; not bound by or conforming to convention, rule, or precedent; free from conventionality: an unconventional artist; an unconventional use of material.
  • under-employment — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
  • unenforceability — to put or keep in force; compel obedience to: to enforce a rule; Traffic laws will be strictly enforced.
  • unostentatiously — (of a person) in a manner that is not trying to impress people with one's wealth or importance
  • unpredictability — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
  • unsystematically — having, showing, or involving a system, method, or plan: a systematic course of reading; systematic efforts.
  • up to one's eyes — extremely busy (with)
  • valency electron — an electron in the outer shell of an atom, responsible for forming chemical bonds
  • variable annuity — an annuity in which the premiums are invested chiefly in common stocks or other securities, the annuitant receiving payments based on the yield of the investments instead of in fixed amounts.
  • ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
  • virgin territory — place never visited
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