17-letter words containing y, u, r, t, s
- absolute majority — If a political party wins an absolute majority, they obtain more seats or votes than the total number of seats or votes gained by their opponents in an election.
- absolute monarchy — a monarchy without constitutional limits
- angry fruit salad — (abuse) A bad visual-interface design that uses too many colours. (This term derives, of course, from the bizarre day-glo colours found in canned fruit salad). Too often one sees similar effects from interface designers using colour window systems such as X; there is a tendency to create displays that are flashy and attention-getting but uncomfortable for long-term use.
- ashton-under-lyne — a town in NW England, in Tameside unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 43 236 (2001)
- auxiliary storage — secondary storage.
- aviation industry — a collective term for the companies involved in air transport
- bankruptcy estate — all of the interests that a debtor has at the start of a bankruptcy case
- blue dot syndrome — (graphics, jargon) The inability to display an image file or text embedded in an image file on your monitor.
- blue sky software — eHelp Corporation
- bluegrass country — region in central Ky. where there is much bluegrass
- building industry — the economic sector comprising all companies involved in construction
- butterfly closure — an adhesive bandage resembling the shape of a butterfly's outstretched wings, used for closing minor cuts.
- buyers' inflation — inflation in which rising demand results in a rise in prices.
- by return of post — by the next mail in the opposite direction
- campus university — a university in which the buildings, often including shops and cafés, are all on one site
- cast/run your eye — If you cast your eye or run your eye over something, you look at it or read it quickly.
- causality paradox — the hypothetical cause-and-effect of time travel and making changes in the past that would affect current actions.
- circumscriptively — In a circumscriptive manner.
- circumstantiality — the quality of being circumstantial
- community service — Community service is unpaid work that criminals sometimes do as a punishment instead of being sent to prison.
- computer security — security
- contemporaneously — living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
- costume jewellery — Costume jewellery is jewellery made from cheap materials.
- counterinsurgency — action taken by a government to counter the activities of rebels, guerrillas, etc
- counterparty risk — the risk that a person who is a party to a contract will default on their obligations under that contract
- courtship display — behaviour that is aimed at attracting a mate
- cover your tracks — If someone covers their tracks, they hide or destroy evidence of their identity or their actions, because they want to keep them secret.
- cytomegaloviruses — Plural form of cytomegalovirus.
- delay instruction — delayed control-transfer
- four-stroke cycle — A four-stroke cycle is the cycle of engine operation which requires four strokes of the piston: for induction, compression, ignition, and exhaust.
- gamma-ray burster — a source of gamma-ray bursts
- gastrojejunostomy — See under gastroenterostomy.
- glastonbury chair — a folding chair having legs crossed front-to-back and having arms connected to the back and to the front seat rail.
- globus hystericus — the sensation of having a lump in the throat or difficulty in swallowing for which no medical cause can be found.
- heritage industry — an industry that manages the historical sites, buildings, and museums in a particular place, with the aim of encouraging tourism
- heterochlamydeous — (of a plant) having a perianth consisting of distinct sepals and petals
- homeland security — national defence
- how's-your-father — sexual intercourse
- hydrotherapeutics — hydrotherapy.
- indestructibility — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
- industrial injury — an injury sustained by an employee of an industrial company during the course of their work
- industry standard — an established standard, norm, or requirement in a particular area of business
- instrument flying — the control and navigation of an aircraft by reference to its gauges, with no or only limited visual reference outside the cockpit.
- insurmountability — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- intersubjectively — (philosophy) In an intersubjective way; between or among multiple subjects.
- intersubjectivity — The state or condition of being intersubjective.
- it's your funeral — If someone says to you 'It's your funeral', they think your decision or your actions will have bad consequences for you, but they are unwilling to interfere.
- jurisprudentially — In terms of jurisprudence.
- lance of courtesy — a lance having a blunt head to prevent serious injury by a jouster to an opponent.
- mesembryanthemums — Plural form of mesembryanthemum.
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