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17-letter words containing e, n, t, h, o, g

  • rocket technology — the technology of the design, operation, maintenance, and launching of rockets
  • 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.
  • sawed-off shotgun — rifle with a short barrel
  • see someone right — to ensure fair treatment of (someone)
  • sheltered housing — accommodation designed esp for the elderly or infirm consisting of a group of individual premises, often with some shared facilities and a caretaker
  • shetland sheepdog — one of a breed of small sheepdogs resembling a miniature collie, raised originally in the Shetland Islands.
  • 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 incident — an incident involving guns
  • shooting practice — practice in shooting for soldiers or other people who shoot guns
  • shopping precinct — pedestrian area with shops
  • shouting distance — hailing distance.
  • sign of the cross — a movement of the hand to indicate a cross, as from forehead to breast and left shoulder to right or, in the Eastern Orthodox Church, from right shoulder to left.
  • 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.
  • south frigid zone — the part of the earth's surface between the Antarctic Circle and the South Pole.
  • southern triangle — the constellation Triangulum Australe.
  • spaghettification — the theoretical stretching of an object as it encounters extreme differences in gravitational forces, especially those associated with a black hole.
  • stage-door johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
  • stretching course — (in brickwork) a course of stretchers.
  • swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
  • 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 software — computer software for use in providing online education
  • technical college — school of further and vocational education
  • teething problems — If a project or new product has teething problems, it has problems in its early stages or when it first becomes available.
  • teething troubles — Teething troubles are the same as teething problems.
  • telephone banking — a facility enabling customers to make use of banking services, such as oral payment instructions, account movements, raising loans, etc, over the telephone rather than by personal visit
  • telephone message — a message that is transmitted by telephone
  • television rights — the rights to televise something, such as a sporting event
  • the age of reason — the 18th century in W Europe
  • the lower regions — hell
  • the morning after — the aftereffects of excess, esp a hangover
  • the neolithic age — the last part of the Stone Age, where metal tools became widespread
  • the old gentleman — a jocular name for Satan
  • the upper regions — the sky; heavens
  • the whole boiling — the whole lot
  • the whole shebang — The whole shebang is the whole situation or business that you are describing.
  • the witching hour — the hour at which witches are supposed to appear, usually midnight
  • theodore sturgeon — Theodore (Hamilton) 1918–85, U.S. science-fiction writer.
  • 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.
  • thomson's gazelle — a medium-sized antelope, Gazella thomsoni, abundant on the grassy steppes and dry bush of the East African plains.
  • thuringian forest — a forested mountain region in central Germany: a resort area.
  • to the nth degree — If something is done to the nth degree, it is done to an extreme degree.
  • tower of strength — a building or structure high in proportion to its lateral dimensions, either isolated or forming part of a building.
  • turkish towelling — woven cloth which is used to make towels, wash cloths, etc
  • 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)
  • warehousing costs — the costs involved in storing goods in a warehouse
  • washington square — a short novel (1881) by Henry James.
  • wheatstone bridge — a circuit for measuring an unknown resistance by comparing it with known resistances.
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