17-letter words containing g, e, o, t, a

steamboat springs — a town in NW Colorado: ski resort.
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.
stolen generation — Aboriginal children removed from their families and placed in institutions or fostered by White families between 1910 and 1970
strange attractor — Physics. a stable, nonperiodic state or behavior exhibited by some dynamic systems, especially turbulent ones, that can be represented as a nonrepeating pattern in the system's phase space.
subject catalogue — a catalogue with entries arranged by subject in a classified sequence
superregeneration — regeneration in which a signal is alternately amplified and quenched at a frequency slightly above the audible range to achieve high sensitivity with a single tube.
swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
sweet mock orange — the syringa, Philadelphus coronarius.
taiping rebellion — a movement of religious mysticism and agrarian unrest in China between 1850 and 1864 which weakened the Manchu dynasty but was eventually suppressed with foreign aid
take advantage of — any state, circumstance, opportunity, or means specially favorable to success, interest, or any desired end: the advantage of a good education.
take in good part — to respond to (teasing) with good humour
take some beating — to be difficult to improve upon
take the edge off — If something takes the edge off a situation, usually an unpleasant one, it weakens its effect or intensity.
tangential motion — the component of the linear motion of a star with respect to the sun, measured along a line perpendicular to its line of sight and expressed in miles or kilometers per second.
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
telecommunicating — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
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
terrestrial globe — the planet Earth (usually preceded by the).
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.
tiger swallowtail — a yellow swallowtail butterfly, Papilio glaucus, of eastern North America, having the forewings striped with black.
to a large extent — greatly
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.
to best advantage — If something is shown to good advantage or to best advantage, it is shown in a way that reveals its best features.
to drag your feet — If you drag your feet or drag your heels, you delay doing something or do it very slowly because you do not want to do it.
to make good time — If you say that you made good time on a journey, you mean it did not take you very long compared to the length of time you expected it to take.
to steal a glance — If you steal a glance at someone or something, you look at them quickly so that nobody sees you looking.
tongue-and-groove — the technique of making a joint between two boards by means of a tongue along the edge of one board that fits into a groove along the edge of the other board
topological space — a set with a collection of subsets or open sets satisfying the properties that the union of open sets is an open set, the intersection of two open sets is an open set, and the given set and the empty set are open sets.
transition region — a thin and very irregular layer of the sun's atmosphere that separates the hot corona from the much cooler chromosphere.
travelling people — Gypsies or other itinerant people: a term used esp by such people of themselves
trifoliate orange — a spiny, Chinese orange tree, Poncirus trifoliata, used as a stock in grafting and for hedges.
turbosupercharger — (formerly) a turbocharger.
urogenital system — the urinary tract and reproductive organs
variable-geometry — denoting an aircraft in which the wings are hinged to give the variable aspect ratio colloquially known as a swing-wing

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