17-letter words containing d, i, s, g, e, t
- south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
- south frigid zone — the part of the earth's surface between the Antarctic Circle and the South Pole.
- spitting distance — a short space or distance
- split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
- standing expenses — fixed or flat expenses or charges
- strange interlude — a play (1928) by Eugene O'Neill.
- stuttgart disease — an often fatal intestinal disease in dogs, caused by any of several spirochetes of the genus Leptospira.
- swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
- the right side of — in favour with
- tibetan highlands — Tibet, Plateau of.
- tungsten trioxide — a heavy, canary-yellow, water-insoluble powder, WO 3 , used in the manufacture of tungstates.
- under the sign of — during that portion of the year when the sun is passing through and thus subject to the influence of (a specified sign of the zodiac)
- undistinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- unique id listing — (messaging) (UIDL) A system used by POP3 electronic mail servers to uniquely identify a mail message. Normally, a message is identified by its position in the list of messages but this will change when an earlier message is deleted. The UIDL is a fixed string of characters which is unique to the message. The UIDL of a message never changes and will never be reused, even when the message has been deleted from the user's mailbox.
- university degree — an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study
- unlisted building — a building that is not amongst those buildings officially recognized as having special historical or architectural interest and therefore protected from demolition or alteration
- 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.
- wade-giles system — a system of Romanization of Chinese, devised by Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818–95) and adapted by Herbert Allen Giles (1845–1935), widely used in representing Chinese words and names in English, especially before the adoption of pinyin.
- wedding breakfast — meal served at wedding reception
- well-investigated — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- wheatstone bridge — a circuit for measuring an unknown resistance by comparing it with known resistances.
- winding staircase — long set of spiral stairs
- wings of the dove — a novel (1902) by Henry James.
- yesterday evening — during the evening of the day preceding today
- yesterday morning — during the morning of the day preceding today