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17-letter words containing f, l, e, g

  • litigation friend — a person acting on behalf of an infant or other person under legal disability
  • lower forty-eight — the forty-eight conterminous states of the United States
  • magnesium sulfate — a white, water-soluble salt, MgSO 4 , used chiefly in medicine and in the processing of leather and textiles.
  • make light of sth — If you make light of something, you treat it as though it is not serious or important, when in fact it is.
  • manganese sulfate — a pink, water-soluble, usually tetrahydrate salt, MnSO 4 ⋅4H 2 O, used chiefly in fertilizers, paints, and varnishes.
  • nightshade family — the plant family Solanaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, trees, shrubs, and vines having alternate, simple or pinnate leaves, conspicuous flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including belladonna, eggplant, nightshade, peppers of the genus Capsicum, petunia, potato, tobacco, and tomato.
  • not lift a finger — any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
  • orange flower oil — neroli oil.
  • 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.
  • plumbing fixtures — things such as pipes, sinks, toilets that are fixed in position in a building
  • polarizing filter — a camera lens filter used to control the plane of polarization of light entering the lens.
  • political refugee — a person who has fled from a homeland because of political persecution.
  • portfolio manager — a person employed by others to make investments for them
  • prelingually deaf — deaf from birth or having acquired deafness before learning to speak
  • reformed spelling — a revised orthography intended to simplify the spelling of English words, especially to eliminate unpronounced letters, as by substituting thru for through, tho for though, slo for slow, etc.
  • register of wills — (in some states of the U.S.) the official charged with the probate of wills or with the keeping of the records of the probate court.
  • self-acknowledged — widely recognized; generally accepted: an acknowledged authority on Chinese art.
  • self-aggrandizing — increase of one's own power, wealth, etc., usually aggressively.
  • self-conditioning — Also called operant conditioning, instrumental conditioning. a process of changing behavior by rewarding or punishing a subject each time an action is performed until the subject associates the action with pleasure or distress.
  • self-constituting — to compose; form: mortar constituted of lime and sand.
  • self-depreciating — self-deprecating.
  • self-entertaining — affording entertainment; amusing; diverting: We spent an entertaining evening at the theater.
  • self-estrangement — to turn away in feeling or affection; make unfriendly or hostile; alienate the affections of: Their quarrel estranged the two friends.
  • self-flagellation — the act or process of flagellating.
  • self-impregnating — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
  • self-interpreting — to give or provide the meaning of; explain; explicate; elucidate: to interpret the hidden meaning of a parable.
  • self-perpetuating — continuing oneself in office, rank, etc., beyond the normal limit.
  • self-priming pump — A self-priming pump is a pump that will clear its passages of air and start pumping.
  • self-rising flour — Self-rising flour is flour that makes cakes rise when they are cooked because it has chemicals added to it.
  • self-significance — importance; consequence: the significance of the new treaty.
  • separating funnel — a large funnel having a tap in its output tube, used to separate immiscible liquids
  • single-sheet feed — a mechanism for feeding or taking single sheets of paper into a printer
  • soft-rock geology — geology dealing with sedimentary rocks.
  • south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • springfield rifle — a single-shot, breechloading .45-caliber rifle used by the U.S. Army from 1867 to 1893.
  • through the floor — If you say that prices or sales have fallen through the floor, you mean that they have suddenly decreased.
  • tree of knowledge — the tree whose fruit Adam and Eve tasted in disobedience of God: Gen. 2, 3
  • trifoliate orange — a spiny, Chinese orange tree, Poncirus trifoliata, used as a stock in grafting and for hedges.
  • vale of glamorgan — a county borough of S Wales, created in 1996 from parts of South Glamorgan and Mid Glamorgan. Administrative centre: Barry. Pop: 121 200 (2003 est). Area: 295 sq km (114 sq miles)
  • 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.
  • wage differential — the difference in wages between workers with different skills in the same industry or between those with comparable skills in different industries or localities
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