17-letter words containing a, d, g, i, l
- swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
- technical drawing — the study and practice, esp as a subject taught in school, of the basic techniques of draughtsmanship, as employed in mechanical drawing, architecture, etc
- tibetan highlands — Tibet, Plateau of.
- traditional logic — formal logic based on syllogistic formulas, especially as developed by Aristotle.
- undistinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- unlawful wounding — an offence committed when a person maliciously wounds another person
- vaginal discharge — emission from the female genitalia
- veiltail goldfish — an artificially bred, indoor variety of goldfish, usually golden or calico and of a spheroid shape, having a fully divided, drooping tail fin exceeding the body in length.
- vila nova de gaia — a city in NW Portugal.
- vulcan death grip — (jargon) A variant of Vulcan nerve pinch derived from a Star Trek classic epsisode where a non-existant "Vulcan death grip" was used to fool Romulans that Spock had killed Kirk.
- 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.
- wage differential — the difference in wages between workers with different skills in the same industry or between those with comparable skills in different industries or localities
- washing-up liquid — Washing-up liquid is a thick soapy liquid which you add to hot water to clean dirty dishes.
- washington island — an island off the Door Peninsula, NE Wisconsin, in NW Lake Michigan. 20 sq. mi. (50 sq. km).
- well-investigated — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- windowglass shell — capiz.
- zoological garden — zoo (def 1).