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17-letter words containing a, e, d, g

  • 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
  • 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 last judgment — the occasion, after the resurrection of the dead at the end of the world, when, according to biblical tradition, God will decree the final destinies of all men according to the good and evil in their earthly lives
  • the old gentleman — a jocular name for Satan
  • thread-legged bug — any of certain insects of the family Reduviidae, characterized by an elongated, slender body and long frail legs, the front pair of which are raptorial.
  • three-legged race — a race among a number of paired contestants, each contestant having one leg tied to the adjacent leg of his or her partner.
  • tibetan highlands — Tibet, Plateau of.
  • to best advantage — If something is shown to good advantage or to best advantage, it is shown in a way that reveals its best features.
  • to drag your feet — If you drag your feet or drag your heels, you delay doing something or do it very slowly because you do not want to do it.
  • to make good time — If you say that you made good time on a journey, you mean it did not take you very long compared to the length of time you expected it to take.
  • tongue-and-groove — the technique of making a joint between two boards by means of a tongue along the edge of one board that fits into a groove along the edge of the other board
  • undistinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • unix brain damage — Something that has to be done to break a network program (typically a mailer) on a non-Unix system so that it will interoperate with Unix systems. The hack may qualify as "Unix brain damage" if the program conforms to published standards and the Unix program in question does not. Unix brain damage happens because it is much easier for other (minority) systems to change their ways to match non-conforming behaviour than it is to change all the hundreds of thousands of Unix systems out there. An example of Unix brain damage is a kluge in a mail server to recognise bare line feed (the Unix newline) as an equivalent form to the Internet standard newline, which is a carriage return followed by a line feed. Such things can make even a hardened jock weep.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • wedding breakfast — meal served at wedding reception
  • well-acknowledged — widely recognized; generally accepted: an acknowledged authority on Chinese art.
  • well-investigated — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
  • well-photographed — a picture produced by photography.
  • wheatstone bridge — a circuit for measuring an unknown resistance by comparing it with known resistances.
  • winding staircase — long set of spiral stairs
  • windowglass shell — capiz.
  • windows messaging — (messaging)   Microsoft's Internet electronic mail application, formerly called Microsoft Exchange.
  • without regard to — with no concern for
  • wood meadow grass — a coarse, spreading grass, Poa nemoralis, of Eurasia, having flowers in long, narrow clusters.
  • wring one's hands — If someone wrings their hands, they hold them together and twist and turn them, usually because they are very worried or upset about something. You can also say that someone is wringing their hands when they are expressing sorrow that a situation is so bad but are saying that they are unable to change it.
  • yesterday evening — during the evening of the day preceding today
  • yesterday morning — during the morning of the day preceding today
  • youth-and-old-age — a stiff-growing, erect composite plant, Zinnia elegans, of Mexico, having large, solitary flowers with yellow-to-purple disks and usually red rays.
  • zoological garden — zoo (def 1).
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