17-letter words containing g, a, t, e, h, o
- 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 practice — practice in shooting for soldiers or other people who shoot guns
- shouting distance — hailing distance.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- stage-door johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
- stereolithography — a process for creating three-dimensional objects using a computer-controlled laser to build up the required structure, layer by layer, from a liquid photopolymer that solidifies.
- stereophotography — photography producing stereoscopic images.
- swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
- take the edge off — If something takes the edge off a situation, usually an unpleasant one, it weakens its effect or intensity.
- teachers' college — a college, usually having a four-year curriculum and granting a bachelor's degree, for training teachers for elementary and secondary schools
- 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
- 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
- the age of reason — the 18th century in W Europe
- the bag of tricks — every device; everything
- the glacial epoch — the Pleistocene Epoch
- the good old days — When people refer to the good old days, they are referring to a time in the past when they think that life was better than it is now.
- the major leagues — the two main leagues of professional baseball clubs in the U.S., the National League and the American League
- 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 whole shebang — The whole shebang is the whole situation or business that you are describing.
- 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 argue the toss — If you say that someone argues the toss, you are criticizing them for continuing to argue for longer than is necessary about something that is not very important.
- turbosupercharger — (formerly) a turbocharger.
- 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.
- warehousing costs — the costs involved in storing goods in a warehouse
- washington square — a short novel (1881) by Henry James.
- well-photographed — a picture produced by photography.
- wheatstone bridge — a circuit for measuring an unknown resistance by comparing it with known resistances.
- without regard to — with no concern for
- youth-and-old-age — a stiff-growing, erect composite plant, Zinnia elegans, of Mexico, having large, solitary flowers with yellow-to-purple disks and usually red rays.
- zola technologies — (company) Producers of the Z simulation language.