17-letter words containing ser
- soil conservation — any of various methods to achieve the maximum utilization of the land and preserve its resources through such controls as crop rotation, prevention of soil erosion, etc.
- spectrum analyser — an instrument that splits an input waveform into its frequency components, which are then displayed
- spenserian sonnet — a sonnet employing the rhyme scheme abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee.
- spenserian stanza — the stanza used by Spenser in his Faerie Queene and employed since by other poets, consisting of eight iambic pentameter lines and a final Alexandrine, with a rhyme scheme of ababbcbcc.
- sunday observance — the fact of keeping Sunday as a special day when people go to church
- surface condenser — a device condensing steam or vapor by passing it over a cool surface.
- sybase sql server — Adaptive Server Enterprise
- telephone service — a company or public utility that provides a telephone-operating service
- tiglath-pileser i — died 1102? b.c, king of Assyria c1115–1102?.
- 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.
- ultraconservative — extremely conservative, especially in politics.
- user brain damage — (humour) (UBD) A description (usually abbreviated) used to close a trouble report obviously due to utter cluelessness on the user's part. Compare pilot error; opposite: PBD; see also brain-damaged, PEBCAK.
- wear the trousers — to have control, esp in a marriage
- 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.
- wood preservative — a coating applied to timber as a protection against decay, insects, weather, etc