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17-letter words containing a, e, g

  • vegetable tanning — the act or process of tanning hide by the infusion of plant extract.
  • 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.
  • verkhoyansk range — a mountain range in the Sakha Republic, in E Siberia, Russia. About 600 miles (970 km) long.
  • vertical planning — the planning of education delivered in schools discussed between teachers of different classes or grades
  • very large memory — (architecture)   (VLM) A processor and operating system that can use more than 4GB of RAM, which is the limit for systems using 32-bit addresses. VLM architectures allow application programs and Very Large Databases with more than 4GB of data to be placed entirely in physical memory, with large performance enhancements. Some recent processors like the DEC Alpha can process 64 bits of data at a time and use addresses wider than 32 bits. (Solaris http://sun.com/solaris/64bit.html). (SGI http://sgi.com/Technology/standard/faq.html). (Unix 98 http://UNIX-systems.org/version2/whatsnew/login_64bit.html).
  • vila nova de gaia — a city in NW Portugal.
  • village community — an early form of community organization in which land belonged to the village, the arable land being allotted to the members or households of the community by more or less permanent arrangements and the waste or excess land remaining undivided.
  • vinaigrette sauce — a tart sauce of oil, vinegar, and seasonings, sometimes including chopped capers, pickles, etc., usually served cold with salads.
  • visitors' gallery — a balcony in a building such as a parliament or court where members of the public can sit
  • voltage regulator — a device that controls or maintains the voltage of an electrical circuit. Abbreviation: VR.
  • 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
  • wage negotiations — talks between workers and employers over rates of pay
  • wage-price spiral — a situation in which wage and price increases drive each other upward and cause inflation
  • walk on eggshells — to be very cautious or diplomatic for fear of upsetting someone
  • wang laboratories — (body)   Computer manufacturer, known for their office automation products and the Wang PC. Quarterly sales $208M, profits $3M (Aug 1994).
  • warehousing costs — the costs involved in storing goods in a warehouse
  • washington square — a short novel (1881) by Henry James.
  • wedding breakfast — meal served at wedding reception
  • weeping lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
  • 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.
  • wire entanglement — a barbed-wire obstacle, usually mounted on posts and zigzagged back and forth along a front, designed to channel, delay, or halt an advance by enemy foot soldiers.
  • without regard to — with no concern for
  • wood meadow grass — a coarse, spreading grass, Poa nemoralis, of Eurasia, having flowers in long, narrow clusters.
  • working substance — a substance, usually a fluid, that undergoes changes in pressure, temperature, volume, or form as part of a process for accomplishing work.
  • wrangell-mountain — Mount, an active volcano in SE Alaska, in the Wrangell Mountains. 14,006 feet (4269 meters).
  • 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.
  • x image extension — (XIE) Extensions to the X protocol to handle images.
  • 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.
  • zola technologies — (company)   Producers of the Z simulation language.
  • zonal pelargonium — a pelargonium whose leaves are marked with concentric circles of a different colour to the rest of the leaf
  • zoogeographically — In a zoogeographical way.
  • zoological garden — zoo (def 1).
  • zygomatic process — any of several bony processes that articulate with the cheekbone.
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