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17-letter words containing a, l, n, i, g

  • smarandache logic — neutrosophic logic
  • social accounting — the analysis of the economy by sectors leading to the calculation and publication of economic statistics, such as gross national product and national income
  • social networking — the development of social and professional contacts; the sharing of information and services among people with a common interest.
  • social notworking — the practice of spending time unproductively on social networking websites, esp when one should be working
  • solicitor general — a law officer who maintains the rights of the state in suits affecting the public interest, next in rank to the attorney general.
  • south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • southern triangle — the constellation Triangulum Australe.
  • special messenger — a postal worker who delivers mail by special delivery
  • special schooling — the system of educating children with special needs in schools designed to meet their needs
  • spherical polygon — a closed figure formed by arcs of great circles on a spherical surface.
  • spinal meningitis — infection of spinal membrane
  • spiritual healing — faith healing
  • split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
  • sting in the tail — an unexpected and unpleasant ending
  • stolen generation — Aboriginal children removed from their families and placed in institutions or fostered by White families between 1910 and 1970
  • strange interlude — a play (1928) by Eugene O'Neill.
  • subclavian groove — either of two grooves in the first rib, one for the main artery (subclavian artery) and the other for the main vein (subclavian vein) of the arm
  • surgical dressing — a dressing made of cotton, used for incisions made during surgery
  • swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
  • symbolic language — a specialized language dependent upon the use of symbols for communication and created for the purpose of achieving greater exactitude, as in symbolic logic or mathematics.
  • taiping rebellion — a movement of religious mysticism and agrarian unrest in China between 1850 and 1864 which weakened the Manchu dynasty but was eventually suppressed with foreign aid
  • tangential motion — the component of the linear motion of a star with respect to the sun, measured along a line perpendicular to its line of sight and expressed in miles or kilometers per second.
  • teaching hospital — a hospital associated with a medical college and offering clinical and other facilities to those in various areas of medical study, as students, interns, and residents.
  • technical college — school of further and vocational education
  • 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
  • telecommunicating — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
  • telephone banking — a facility enabling customers to make use of banking services, such as oral payment instructions, account movements, raising loans, etc, over the telephone rather than by personal visit
  • the neolithic age — the last part of the Stone Age, where metal tools became widespread
  • thermocoagulation — the coagulation of tissue by heat-producing high-frequency electric currents, used therapeutically to remove small growths or to create specific lesions in the brain.
  • tibetan highlands — Tibet, Plateau of.
  • traditional logic — formal logic based on syllogistic formulas, especially as developed by Aristotle.
  • trailing geranium — an ivy-leaved variety of geranium, Pelargonium peltatum
  • travelling people — Gypsies or other itinerant people: a term used esp by such people of themselves
  • triangular matrix — a square matrix in which either all the entries above the principal diagonal, or all the entries below the principal diagonal, are zero.
  • trifoliate orange — a spiny, Chinese orange tree, Poncirus trifoliata, used as a stock in grafting and for hedges.
  • ultimate strength — the quantity of the utmost tensile, compressive, or shearing stress that a given unit area of a certain material is expected to bear without failing.
  • undistinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • unipalm group plc — (company)   A company floated in March 1994.
  • universal algebra — (logic)   The model theory of first-order equational logic.
  • universal grammar — a grammar that attempts to establish the properties and constraints common to all possible human languages.
  • unlawful wounding — an offence committed when a person maliciously wounds another person
  • urogenital system — the urinary tract and reproductive organs
  • vaginal discharge — emission from the female genitalia
  • vanity publishing — the practice of the author of a book paying all or most of the costs of its publication
  • vegetable tanning — the act or process of tanning hide by the infusion of plant extract.
  • vertical planning — the planning of education delivered in schools discussed between teachers of different classes or grades
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
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