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17-letter words containing a, r, g, e, n

  • single-name paper — commercial paper bearing only the signature of the maker.
  • 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
  • smarandache logic — neutrosophic logic
  • social networking — the development of social and professional contacts; the sharing of information and services among people with a common interest.
  • 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.
  • special messenger — a postal worker who delivers mail by special delivery
  • spherical polygon — a closed figure formed by arcs of great circles on a spherical surface.
  • spiritual healing — faith healing
  • split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
  • spongy parenchyma — the lower layer of the ground tissue of a leaf, characteristically containing irregularly shaped cells with relatively few chloroplasts and large intercellular spaces.
  • spread your wings — if you spread your wings, you do something new and rather difficult or move to a new place, because you feel more confident in your abilities than you used to and you want to gain wider experience
  • spring cankerworm — the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
  • 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
  • stage-door johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • surgical dressing — a dressing made of cotton, used for incisions made during surgery
  • sweet mock orange — the syringa, Philadelphus coronarius.
  • 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
  • take in good part — to respond to (teasing) with good humour
  • teaching practice — Teaching practice is a period that a student teacher spends teaching at a school as part of his or her training.
  • teaching software — computer software for use in providing online 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
  • tenancy agreement — property rental contract
  • the age of reason — the 18th century in W Europe
  • the morning after — the aftereffects of excess, esp a hangover
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • to a large extent — greatly
  • 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
  • trailing geranium — an ivy-leaved variety of geranium, Pelargonium peltatum
  • 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
  • travelling people — Gypsies or other itinerant people: a term used esp by such people of themselves
  • trifoliate orange — a spiny, Chinese orange tree, Poncirus trifoliata, used as a stock in grafting and for hedges.
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