17-letter words containing tt
- school attendance — a measure of the number of children who attend school and the amount of time they are present
- sea-island cotton — a long-staple cotton, Gossypium barbadense, raised originally in the Sea Islands and now grown chiefly in the West Indies.
- secondary battery — storage battery.
- secondary boycott — a boycott by union members against their employer in order to induce the employer to bring pressure on another company involved in a labor dispute with the union.
- settlement houses — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
- settlement option — any of the options, other than immediate payment in a lump sum, by which the policyholder or beneficiary may choose to have the benefits of a policy paid.
- settlement worker — a person who works with underprivileged people in a settlement house.
- shower attachment — a device fixed to taps to make a shower
- shutter-preferred — of or relating to a semiautomatic exposure system in which the photographer presets the shutter speed and the camera selects the aperture.
- shuttle diplomacy — diplomatic negotiations carried out by a mediator who travels back and forth between the negotiating parties.
- sister of loretto — a member of a congregation of sisters founded at Loretto, Kentucky, in 1812 and engaged in educational and missionary works.
- social settlement — settlement (def 14).
- spaghetti western — a low-budget western movie shot in Italy or Spain, usually with Italian actors and an American star.
- spaghettification — the theoretical stretching of an object as it encounters extreme differences in gravitational forces, especially those associated with a black hole.
- span of attention — attention span.
- spark transmitter — a transmitting set that generates electromagnetic waves by the oscillatory discharge from a capacitor through an inductor and a spark gap.
- special committee — a committee, as of a legislative body, that is formed to examine and report on a specific bill or issue.
- spitting distance — a short space or distance
- spotted sandpiper — a North American sandpiper, Actitis macularia, that has brownish-gray upper parts and white underparts, and is spotted with black in the summer.
- squatter's rights — the rights to a property claimed by someone who has occupied it in the owner's absence
- 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.
- stuttgart disease — an often fatal intestinal disease in dogs, caused by any of several spirochetes of the genus Leptospira.
- sulphur butterfly — sulfur butterfly.
- the little dipper — a small faint constellation, the brightest star of which is the Pole Star, lying 1° from the true celestial pole
- the rail-splitter — Lincoln2
- the unwritten law — the tradition that a person may avenge any insult to family integrity, as used to justify criminal acts of vengeance
- thistle butterfly — any nymphalid butterfly of the genus Vanessa, as the red admiral or painted lady.
- to hit the bottle — If someone hits the bottle, they drink a lot of alcohol.
- to little purpose — with little (or no) result or effect; pointlessly
- to settle a score — If you settle a score or settle an old score with someone, you take revenge on them for something they have done in the past.
- to the bitter end — If you say that you will continue doing something to the bitter end, especially something difficult or unpleasant, you are emphasizing that you will continue doing it until it is completely finished.
- tourette syndrome — a neurological disorder characterized by recurrent involuntary movements, including multiple neck jerks and sometimes vocal tics, as grunts, barks, or words, especially obscenities.
- troilus butterfly — spicebush swallowtail.
- vinaigrette sauce — a tart sauce of oil, vinegar, and seasonings, sometimes including chopped capers, pickles, etc., usually served cold with salads.
- vittore carpaccio — Vittore [veet-taw-re] /vitˈtɔ rɛ/ (Show IPA), c1450–1525, Venetian painter.
- welshman's button — an angler's name for a species of caddis fly, Sericostoma personatum