17-letter words containing rs
- transverse engine — an engine which is fitted side-to-side across the axis of a vehicle
- twenty-four hours — the time taken by the Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis; a whole day
- understandability — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- universal algebra — (logic) The model theory of first-order equational logic.
- universal grammar — a grammar that attempts to establish the properties and constraints common to all possible human languages.
- university degree — an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study
- velaric airstream — a current of mouth air produced by the action of the tongue, operant in forming click sounds.
- visitors' gallery — a balcony in a building such as a parliament or court where members of the public can sit
- wars of the roses — the civil struggle between the royal house of Lancaster, whose emblem was a red rose, and the royal house of York, whose emblem was a white rose, beginning in 1455 and ending with the accession of Henry VII in 1485 and the union of the two houses.
- warsaw convention — a multilateral treaty on aviation set up chiefly to limit air carriers' liability to passengers and shippers on international flights in the event of an accident.
- wear the trousers — to have control, esp in a marriage
- west three rivers — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- wild sarsaparilla — a low plant, Aralia nudicaulis, of the ginseng family, native to eastern North America, having a single, long-stalked, compound leaf and a ball-like cluster of greenish-yellow flowers.
- wimshurst machine — a device for the production of electric charge by electrostatic induction, consisting of two oppositely rotating glass or mica disks carrying metal strips upon which charges are induced and subsequently removed by contact with metallic combs.