17-letter words containing a, n, g, s, t, r
- separation energy — binding energy (def 1).
- sexual generation — the gametophyte generation in the alternation of generations in plants that produces a zygote from male and female gametes.
- shipping articles — articles of agreement.
- shoestring tackle — a tackle made around the ankles of the ball carrier.
- shooting practice — practice in shooting for soldiers or other people who shoot guns
- significant other — Sociology. a person, as a parent or peer, who has great influence on one's behavior and self-esteem.
- similar triangles — triangles that are similar due to the equality of corresponding angles and the proportional similarity of the corresponding sides
- single-track road — a road that is only wide enough for one vehicle
- sleeping quarters — the rooms where people sleep in a large building or complex or on a boat etc
- 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
- software engineer — a person who writes computer programs
- 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.
- sound spectrogram — a graphic representation, produced by a sound spectrograph, of the frequency, intensity, duration, and variation with time of the resonance of a sound or series of sounds.
- south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
- southern triangle — the constellation Triangulum Australe.
- spaghetti western — a low-budget western movie shot in Italy or Spain, usually with Italian actors and an American star.
- spiritual healing — faith healing
- split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
- squeegee merchant — a person who attempts to make money by squeegeeing the windscreens of cars that are stopped at traffic lights and then asking for payment
- stag's-horn coral — staghorn coral.
- stage-door johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
- stand your ground — relating to or denoting a legal principle or law that eliminates the duty to retreat by allowing, as a first response, self-defense by deadly force: We’re proud to represent Florida, the first stand your ground state.
- stationary engine — an engine mounted in a fixed position, as one used for driving generators, compressors, etc.
- statutory meeting — company shareholders' discussion
- steamboat springs — a town in NW Colorado: ski resort.
- stolen generation — Aboriginal children removed from their families and placed in institutions or fostered by White families between 1910 and 1970
- strange attractor — Physics. a stable, nonperiodic state or behavior exhibited by some dynamic systems, especially turbulent ones, that can be represented as a nonrepeating pattern in the system's phase space.
- strange interlude — a play (1928) by Eugene O'Neill.
- stress management — coping with psychological pressure
- substantive right — a right, as life, liberty, or property, recognized for its own sake and as part of the natural legal order of society.
- superregeneration — regeneration in which a signal is alternately amplified and quenched at a frequency slightly above the audible range to achieve high sensitivity with a single tube.
- sweet mock orange — the syringa, Philadelphus coronarius.
- teaching software — computer software for use in providing online education
- the age of reason — the 18th century in W Europe
- threshing machine — a machine for removing grains and seeds from straw and chaff.
- thuringian forest — a forested mountain region in central Germany: a resort area.
- trading standards — consumer organization
- transignification — (in the Eucharist) a change in the significance of the bread and wine to symbolize the body and blood of Christ.
- transition region — a thin and very irregular layer of the sun's atmosphere that separates the hot corona from the much cooler chromosphere.
- transverse engine — an engine which is fitted side-to-side across the axis of a vehicle
- trigger mechanism — a physiological or psychological process caused by a stimulus and resulting in a usually severe reaction.
- turbinado (sugar) — a partially refined, granulated, pale-brown sugar obtained by washing raw sugar in a centrifuge until most of the molasses is removed
- 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.
- urogenital system — the urinary tract and reproductive organs
- vinaigrette sauce — a tart sauce of oil, vinegar, and seasonings, sometimes including chopped capers, pickles, etc., usually served cold with salads.
- visitation rights — the legal right granted to a divorced or separated parent to visit a child in the custody of the other parent.
- 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.