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17-letter words containing a, r, g, h, o

  • montagu's harrier — a brownish European bird of prey, Circus pygargus, with long narrow wings and a long tail: family Accipitridae (hawks, harriers, etc)
  • mother of vinegar — mother2 .
  • national heritage — country's cultural legacy
  • natural logarithm — a logarithm having e as a base. Symbol: ln.
  • neuropathological — (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or arising from neuropathology, the pathology of nerve tissue.
  • neuropharmacology — the branch of pharmacology concerned with the effects of drugs on the nervous system.
  • normal orthogonal — orthonormal.
  • northeast passage — a ship route along the N coast of Europe and Asia, between the North Sea and the Pacific.
  • northern michigan — the peninsula between lakes Superior and Michigan constituting the N part of Michigan. Abbreviation: U.P.
  • northwest passage — a ship route along the Arctic coast of Canada and Alaska, joining the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
  • nothing more than — merely, solely
  • oceanographically — In terms of oceanography.
  • on the wrong tack — a short, sharp-pointed nail, usually with a flat, broad head.
  • operating theatre — An operating theatre is a special room in a hospital where surgeons carry out medical operations.
  • organic chemistry — the branch of chemistry, originally limited to substances found only in living organisms, dealing with the compounds of carbon.
  • organic psychosis — a severe mental illness produced by damage to the brain, as a result of poisoning, alcoholism, disease, etc
  • organophosphorous — Misspelling of organophosphorus.
  • orifice discharge — Orifice discharge is a model for calculating how quickly a fluid will come out of a punctured vessel or pipe.
  • orthogonal matrix — a matrix that is the inverse of its transpose so that any two rows or any two columns are orthogonal vectors
  • orthogonalization — (mathematics) The process of converting a set of functions or vectors into orthogonal ones.
  • overhead lighting — lighting which throws light downwards by being situated on the ceiling or having a downward shade, etc
  • palaeoarchaeology — the branch of archaeology concerned with the earliest fossil remains
  • paleoanthropology — the study of the origins and predecessors of the present human species, using fossils and other remains.
  • paleobiogeography — the study of the distribution of ancient plants and animals and their relation to ancient geographic features.
  • parathyroid gland — any of several small oval glands usually lying near or embedded in the thyroid gland.
  • pastoral theology — the branch of theology dealing with the responsibilities of members of the clergy to the people under their care.
  • pathological liar — a person who tells lies frequently, with no rational motive for doing so.
  • phantom pregnancy — the occurrence of signs of pregnancy, such as enlarged abdomen and absence of menstruation, when no embryo is present, due to hormonal imbalance
  • pharmacologically — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
  • phonological rule — an operation in generative phonology that substitutes one sound or class of sounds for another in a phonological derivation.
  • photofluorography — photography of images produced by a fluoroscopic examination, used in x-ray examination of the lungs of large groups of people.
  • pitching rotation — the regular, scheduled succession of starting pitchers designated by a manager: a four-man pitching rotation in September.
  • pre-technological — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • prothoracic gland — either of a pair of endocrine glands in the anterior thorax of some insects, functioning to promote the series of molts from hatching to adulthood.
  • psychographically — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
  • pythagorean scale — the major scale as derived acoustically by Pythagoras from the perfect fifth.
  • radiometeorograph — a device for the automatic transmission by radio of the data from a set of meteorological instruments
  • receding forehead — a forehead which slopes backwards
  • regent honeyeater — a large brightly-coloured Australian honeyeater, Zanthomiza phrygia
  • revealed theology — theology based on the doctrine that all religious truth is derived exclusively from the revelations of God to humans.
  • right off the bat — Sports. the wooden club used in certain games, as baseball and cricket, to strike the ball. a racket, especially one used in badminton or table tennis. a whip used by a jockey. the act of using a club or racket in a game. the right or turn to use a club or racket.
  • right-to-work law — a state law making it illegal to refuse employment to a person for the sole reason that he or she is not a union member.
  • rough puff pastry — a rich flaky pastry made with butter and used for pie-crusts, flans, etc
  • rough-legged hawk — a large hawk, Buteo lagopus, of the Northern Hemisphere, that feeds chiefly on small rodents.
  • rub the wrong way — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
  • sandringham house — a residence of the royal family, in Sandringham, a village in E England, in Norfolk near the E shore of the Wash
  • saxe-coburg-gotha — a member of the present British royal family, from the establishment of the house in 1901 until 1917 when the family name was changed to Windsor.
  • school playground — school's outdoor recreation area
  • semi-biographical — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
  • shoestring tackle — a tackle made around the ankles of the ball carrier.
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