17-letter words containing l, a, d, y, s
- split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
- statutory holiday — a public holiday; a holiday all workers are entitled to
- strawberry blonde — woman: with reddish fair hair
- stymphalian birds — a flock of predacious birds of Arcadia that were driven away and killed by Hercules as one of his labors.
- subsidiary ledger — (in accounting) a ledger containing a group of detailed and related accounts the total of which is summarized in the control account.
- sunday supplement — a special section incorporated in the Sunday editions of many newspapers, often containing features on books, celebrities, home entertainment, gardening, and the like.
- supply and demand — economy: basic market theory
- the good old days — When people refer to the good old days, they are referring to a time in the past when they think that life was better than it is now.
- the lord's prayer — the, the prayer given by Jesus to His disciples, and beginning with the words Our Father. Matt. 6:9–13; Luke 11:2–4.
- tolpuddle martyrs — six farm workers sentenced to transportation for seven years in 1834 for administering an unlawful oath to form a trade union in the village of Tolpuddle, Dorset
- tridimensionality — having three dimensions.
- understandability — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- vascular cylinder — stele (sense 3)
- video disk player — a device that reads the information on a video disc
- visually impaired — (of a person) having reduced vision so severe as to constitute a handicap.
- wade-giles system — a system of Romanization of Chinese, devised by Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818–95) and adapted by Herbert Allen Giles (1845–1935), widely used in representing Chinese words and names in English, especially before the adoption of pinyin.
- williams syndrome — an abnormality in the genes involved in calcium metabolism, resulting in learning difficulties