17-letter words containing tor
- sanctum sanctorum — the holy of holies of the Biblical tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem.
- scheme repository — A collection of free Scheme programs.
- short short story — a very short piece of prose fiction, much more condensed than the average short story.
- solicitor general — a law officer who maintains the rights of the state in suits affecting the public interest, next in rank to the attorney general.
- statutory holiday — a public holiday; a holiday all workers are entitled to
- statutory meeting — company shareholders' discussion
- statutory offense — a wrong punishable under a statute, rather than at common law.
- store and forward — to store (information) in a computer for later forward transmission through a telecommunication network
- storm in a teacup — a violent fuss or disturbance over a trivial matter
- strange attractor — Physics. a stable, nonperiodic state or behavior exhibited by some dynamic systems, especially turbulent ones, that can be represented as a nonrepeating pattern in the system's phase space.
- swash plate motor — a collar or face plate on a shaft that is inclined at an oblique angle to the axis of rotation and converts reciprocating motion to rotation
- synchronous motor — a synchronous machine that acts as a motor.
- take sth by storm — If someone or something takes a place by storm, they are extremely successful.
- terminal operator — A terminal operator is a company that manages a place where oil or petrochemical products are stored.
- territorial court — a court established in U.S. territories that is empowered to hear local and federal cases.
- the electoral map — a map showing the distribution of constituencies over a country
- the factory floor — all the workers in a factory
- the olympic torch — a torch that is symbolically lit at the site of the ancient Olympics in Olympia and transported by relay to the place where the Olympic Games are to be held. It is used to ignite a fire in a cauldron that will burn throughout the Games
- 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
- tortoiseshell cat — a domestic cat, especially a female one, of variegated black, yellow, and white coloring.
- transitory action — an action that can be brought in any country regardless of where it originated
- undulatory theory — wave theory (def 1).
- victor emmanuel i — 1759–1824, king of Sardinia 1802–21.
- victoriano huerta — Victoriano [beek-taw-ryah-naw] /ˌbik tɔˈryɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1854–1916, Mexican general: provisional president of Mexico 1913–14.
- visitors' gallery — a balcony in a building such as a parliament or court where members of the public can sit
- vittore carpaccio — Vittore [veet-taw-re] /vitˈtɔ rɛ/ (Show IPA), c1450–1525, Venetian painter.
- voltage regulator — a device that controls or maintains the voltage of an electrical circuit. Abbreviation: VR.
- wang laboratories — (body) Computer manufacturer, known for their office automation products and the Wang PC. Quarterly sales $208M, profits $3M (Aug 1994).
- weapons inspector — a person who inspects a country's weapons
- wind chill factor — A wind chill factor is a measure of the cooling effect of the wind on the temperature of the air.
- wind-chill factor — the apparent temperature felt on the exposed human body owing to the combination of temperature and wind speed.
- wireless operator — a radio operator