17-letter words containing a, s, i, g, h, t
- shit on a shingle — creamed chipped beef or ground beef in a sauce, served on toast.
- 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
- shouting distance — hailing distance.
- significant other — Sociology. a person, as a parent or peer, who has great influence on one's behavior and self-esteem.
- 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.
- spaghettification — the theoretical stretching of an object as it encounters extreme differences in gravitational forces, especially those associated with a black hole.
- spectroheliograph — an apparatus for making photographs of the sun with a monochromatic light to show the details of the sun's surface and surroundings as they would appear if the sun emitted only that light.
- spiritual healing — faith healing
- squatter's rights — the rights to a property claimed by someone who has occupied it in the owner's absence
- stereolithography — a process for creating three-dimensional objects using a computer-controlled laser to build up the required structure, layer by layer, from a liquid photopolymer that solidifies.
- sting in the tail — an unexpected and unpleasant ending
- straight arm lift — a wrestling attack, in which a wrestler twists the opponent's arm against the joint and lifts him or her by it, often using the shoulder as a fulcrum
- substantive right — a right, as life, liberty, or property, recognized for its own sake and as part of the natural legal order of society.
- swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
- switching station — A switching station is equipment used to tie together two or more electric circuits through switches.
- sympathetic magic — magic predicated on the belief that one thing or event can affect another at a distance as a consequence of a sympathetic connection between them.
- 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.
- teaching software — computer software for use in providing online education
- the bag of tricks — every device; everything
- the night's a pup — it's early yet
- 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.
- tibetan highlands — Tibet, Plateau of.
- tiglath-pileser i — died 1102? b.c, king of Assyria c1115–1102?.
- to say nothing of — You use to say nothing of when you mention an additional thing which gives even more strength to the point you are making.
- trigger mechanism — a physiological or psychological process caused by a stimulus and resulting in a usually severe reaction.
- 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.
- utagawa kuniyoshi — original name Igusa Magosabwo. 1797–1861, Japanese painter and printmaker of the ukiyo-e school, best known for his prints of warriors and landscapes
- utmost good faith — a principle used in insurance contracts, legally obliging all parties to reveal to the others any information that might influence the others' decision to enter into the contract
- vanity publishing — the practice of the author of a book paying all or most of the costs of its publication
- veiltail goldfish — an artificially bred, indoor variety of goldfish, usually golden or calico and of a spheroid shape, having a fully divided, drooping tail fin exceeding the body in length.
- visitation rights — the legal right granted to a divorced or separated parent to visit a child in the custody of the other parent.
- warehousing costs — the costs involved in storing goods in a warehouse
- washington island — an island off the Door Peninsula, NE Wisconsin, in NW Lake Michigan. 20 sq. mi. (50 sq. km).
- washington square — a short novel (1881) by Henry James.
- wheatstone bridge — a circuit for measuring an unknown resistance by comparing it with known resistances.
- with guns blazing — If you come out with guns blazing or with all guns blazing, you put all your effort and energy into trying to achieve something.
- zola technologies — (company) Producers of the Z simulation language.