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17-letter words containing a, g, l, e, t, s

  • elastic stockings — something made of elastic which you wear on your legs to aid circulation
  • elliptical spring — An elliptical spring is a spring that is made from two springs in the shape of elongated ovals laid cut in half and back-to-back.
  • english breakfast — An English breakfast is a breakfast consisting of cooked food such as bacon, eggs, sausages, and tomatoes. It also includes toast and tea or coffee.
  • enlarged prostate — disorder of male reproductive gland
  • epistemologically — In a manner that pertains to epistemology.
  • establishing shot — Cinema
  • facsimile catalog — a catalog that includes small reproductions of the items listed, as paintings, slides, designs, or the like.
  • footmen's gallery — the rearmost section of seats in the balcony of an English theater, especially in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
  • foreign relations — (used with a singular verb) the field of foreign affairs: an expert in foreign relations.
  • four-star general — high-ranking military officer
  • frostbite sailing — the sport of sailing in temperate latitudes during the winter despite cold weather.
  • fulgencio batista — Fulgencio [fool-hen-syaw] /fulˈhɛn syɔ/ (Show IPA), (Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar) 1901–73, Cuban military leader: dictator of Cuba 1934–40; president 1940–44, 1952–59.
  • general sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.
  • general secretary — the chief administrator of an organization
  • general semantics — a philosophical approach to language, developed by Alfred Korzybski, exploring the relationship between the form of language and its use and attempting to improve the capacity to express ideas.
  • gentleman-at-arms — (in England) one of a guard of 40 gentlemen who attend the sovereign on state occasions.
  • gestatorial chair — a ceremonial chair on which the pope is carried
  • get above oneself — If you say that someone is getting above themself, you disapprove of them because they think they are better than everyone else.
  • glass box testing — white box testing
  • glymphatic system — Anatomy. the system or process by which cerebrospinal fluid moves through channels formed by glia, cleansing the mammalian brain of harmful waste.
  • go like hot cakes — to be sold very quickly or in large quantities
  • goldbeater's skin — the prepared outside membrane of the large intestine of the ox, used by goldbeaters to lay between the leaves of the metal while they beat it into gold leaf.
  • great vowel shift — a series of changes in the quality of the long vowels between Middle and Modern English as a result of which all were raised, while the high vowels (ē) and (o̅o̅), already at the upper limit, underwent breaking to become the diphthongs (ī) and (ou).
  • ground angle shot — a photograph or film shot in which the lens is near the ground, usually pointing up somewhat
  • high-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.5 and 1.5 per cent carbon
  • hospital gangrene — Pathology. a contagious, often fatal gangrene, especially involving amputation stumps and war wounds, occurring usually in crowded, ill-kept hospitals, and caused by putrefactive bacteria.
  • indefatigableness — The state of being indefatigable.
  • indistinguishable — not distinguishable.
  • industrial design — the art that deals with the design problems of manufactured objects, including problems of designing such objects with consideration for available materials and means of production, of designing packages, bottles, etc., for manufactured goods, and of graphic design for manufactured objects, packages, etc.
  • inspector general — a comedy (1836) by Gogol.
  • inspector-general — a comedy (1836) by Gogol.
  • intangible assets — intellectual property, etc.
  • integral calculus — the branch of mathematics that deals with integrals, especially the methods of ascertaining indefinite integrals and applying them to the solution of differential equations and the determining of areas, volumes, and lengths.
  • integrated school — (in New Zealand) a private or church school that has joined the state school system
  • intellectualising — Give an intellectual character to.
  • kensington palace — a royal residence in Kensington Gardens, in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea; dating from the 17th century, it was improved and extended by Sir Cristopher Wren
  • ladies-in-waiting — plural of lady-in-waiting.
  • lagrange's method — a procedure for finding maximum and minimum values of a function of several variables when the variables are restricted by additional conditions.
  • langerhans islets — islets of Langerhans
  • langmuir isotherm — A Langmuir isotherm is a classical relationship between the concentrations of a solid and a fluid, used to describe a state of no change in the sorption process.
  • language transfer — transfer (def 20).
  • league of nations — an international organization to promote world peace and cooperation that was created by the Treaty of Versailles (1919): dissolved April 1946.
  • lebesgue integral — an integral obtained by application of the theory of measure and more general than the Riemann integral.
  • legal aid society — an organization providing free legal guidance and service to persons who cannot afford a lawyer.
  • linear assignment — assignment problem
  • listings magazine — a magazine with lists of TV and radio schedules
  • livingstone daisy — a gardener's name for various species of Mesembryanthemum, esp M. criniflorum, grown as garden annuals (though several are perennial) for their brightly coloured showy flowers: family Aizoaceae
  • lose the exchange — to lose a rook in return for a bishop or knight
  • louisiana tanager — western tanager.
  • magnesium sulfate — a white, water-soluble salt, MgSO 4 , used chiefly in medicine and in the processing of leather and textiles.
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