17-letter words containing c, h, i, g, e, t
- significant other — Sociology. a person, as a parent or peer, who has great influence on one's behavior and self-esteem.
- 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.
- stretching course — (in brickwork) a course of stretchers.
- swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
- 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.
- synthetic biology — the application of computer science techniques to create artificial biological systems
- 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 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 college — school of further and vocational 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
- the bag of tricks — every device; everything
- the glacial epoch — the Pleistocene Epoch
- the neolithic age — the last part of the Stone Age, where metal tools became widespread
- the witching hour — the hour at which witches are supposed to appear, usually midnight
- 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.
- three-ring circus — a circus having three adjacent rings in which performances take place simultaneously.
- threshing machine — a machine for removing grains and seeds from straw and chaff.
- trigger mechanism — a physiological or psychological process caused by a stimulus and resulting in a usually severe reaction.
- vulcan death grip — (jargon) A variant of Vulcan nerve pinch derived from a Star Trek classic epsisode where a non-existant "Vulcan death grip" was used to fool Romulans that Spock had killed Kirk.
- warehousing costs — the costs involved in storing goods in a warehouse
- zola technologies — (company) Producers of the Z simulation language.