17-letter words containing ice
- road-fund licence — a licence showing that the tax payable in respect of a motor vehicle has been paid
- sacrifice paddock — a grassed area allowed to be grazed completely, to be cultivated and resown later
- sandro botticelli — Sandro [san-droh,, sahn-;; Italian sahn-draw] /ˈsæn droʊ,, ˈsɑn-;; Italian ˈsɑn drɔ/ (Show IPA), (Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi) 1444?–1510, Italian painter.
- seaman apprentice — a noncommissioned enlisted person ranking above seaman recruit and below seaman. Abbreviation: SA.
- selective service — compulsory military service.
- self-belay device — (in climbing) a device used to pay out a safety rope as required
- septicemic plague — an especially dangerous form of plague in which the infecting organisms invade the bloodstream. Compare plague (def 2).
- shooting practice — practice in shooting for soldiers or other people who shoot guns
- skate on thin ice — to place oneself in a dangerous or delicate situation
- suffice it to say — Suffice it to say or suffice to say is used at the beginning of a statement to indicate that what you are saying is obvious, or that you will only give a short explanation.
- supreme sacrifice — the sacrifice of one's own life: Many made the supreme sacrifice during the war.
- take no notice of — pay no attention to, disregard
- teaching practice — Teaching practice is a period that a student teacher spends teaching at a school as part of his or her training.
- telephone service — a company or public utility that provides a telephone-operating service
- torricellian tube — a vertical glass tube partly evacuated and partly filled with mercury, the height of which is used as a measure of atmospheric pressure
- traffic policeman — a policeman controlling traffic, esp while stationed at an intersection, or enforcing traffic regulations
- turn-down service — In a hotel, a turn-down service is the preparation of a room for a guest to sleep in by slightly turning back the comforter on the bed, turning down the lights, and so on.
- vice-presidential — relating to a person who ranks immediately below the chief executive or head of state of a republic
- voice recognition — the control of a computer system by a voice or voices that the computer has been instructed to accept
- voice synthesizer — a computer system that is used to artificially produce the human voice
- wage-price spiral — a situation in which wage and price increases drive each other upward and cause inflation
- wild service tree — either of two European trees, Sorbus domestica, bearing a small, acid fruit that is edible when overripe, or S. torminalis (wild service tree) bearing a similar fruit.
- without prejudice — fairly