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17-letter words containing a, s, p, r, g

  • housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
  • hypoglossal nerve — either one of the twelfth pair of cranial nerves, consisting of motor fibers that innervate the muscles of the tongue.
  • inspector general — a comedy (1836) by Gogol.
  • inspector-general — a comedy (1836) by Gogol.
  • integer specratio — SPECint92
  • integrated optics — an assembly of miniature optical elements of a size comparable to those used in electronic integrated circuits.
  • judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
  • king philip's war — the war (1675–76) between New England colonists and a confederation of Indians under their leader, King Philip.
  • landscaped garden — a garden that has been artistically designed
  • legal proceedings — court case
  • lithostratigraphy — the study or character of stratified rocks based solely on their physical and petrographic features.
  • malagasy republic — former name of Madagascar.
  • mass spectrograph — a mass spectroscope for recording a mass spectrum on a photographic plate.
  • massage therapist — sb who gives body rubs
  • merchant shipping — shipping which is involved in commerce (rather than defence, etc)
  • middle-age spread — an increase in bulk, especially in the waist and buttocks, associated with the onset of middle age and the body's decreasing ability to metabolize calories efficiently.
  • modular sb-prolog — Modular Prolog
  • newspaper cutting — clipping from a news publication
  • northeast passage — a ship route along the N coast of Europe and Asia, between the North Sea and the Pacific.
  • northwest passage — a ship route along the Arctic coast of Canada and Alaska, joining the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
  • old age pensioner — An old age pensioner is a person who is old enough to receive an pension from their employer or the government.
  • on speaking terms — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
  • on-street parking — parking (of a car, vehicle, etc) that is or is allowed to be done on a street
  • opening arguments — the statements or arguments provided by lawyers at the beginning of a trial
  • organ-pipe cactus — a treelike or columnar cactus, Lemaireocereus marginatus, of Mexico, having a central, erect spine surrounded by spreading spines in clusters of five to eight, and funnel-shaped, brownish-purple flowers.
  • organic psychosis — a severe mental illness produced by damage to the brain, as a result of poisoning, alcoholism, disease, etc
  • organophosphorous — Misspelling of organophosphorus.
  • paradise regained — an epic poem (1671) by John Milton.
  • paralysis agitans — Parkinson's disease
  • paratungstic acid — an oxyacid acid of tungsten. Formula: H10W12O14
  • partially sighted — unable to see properly so that even with corrective aids normal activities are prevented or seriously hindered
  • pascal's triangle — a triangular arrangement of the binomial coefficients of the expansion (x + y) n for positive integral values of n.
  • passenger station — a station used by passengers
  • passenger traffic — number of passengers
  • pastoral theology — the branch of theology dealing with the responsibilities of members of the clergy to the people under their care.
  • pate de foie gras — See under foie gras.
  • paymaster general — a government minister responsible for making payments by government departments
  • performance drugs — the drugs that are taken illegally by athletes to enhance their sporting performance
  • persona non grata — a person who is not welcome: He has become persona non grata in our club since his angry outburst.
  • personnel manager — head of Human Resources department
  • physical training — fitness coaching
  • picture messaging — Picture messaging is the sending of photographs or pictures from one mobile phone to another.
  • pillion passenger — a person who travels in a seat or place behind the rider of a motorcycle, scooter, horse, etc
  • pittsburg landing — a village in SW Tennessee, on the Tennessee River: battle of Shiloh in 1862.
  • plug and feathers — an apparatus for splitting stone, consisting of two tapered bars (feathers) inserted into a hole drilled into the stone, between which a narrow wedge (plug) is hammered to spread them.
  • poison-arrow frog — a small, bright-colored terrestrial frog of the family Dendrobatidae, of Central and South American rain forests, that secretes a virulent poison from its skin, once used on the tips of Indian hunting arrows.
  • poor man's orange — a grapefruit
  • portuguese guinea — former name of Guinea-Bissau.
  • postural drainage — a therapy for clearing congested lungs by placing the patient in a position for drainage by gravity, often accompanied by percussion with hollowed hands.
  • pre-investigation — the act or process of investigating or the condition of being investigated.
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