17-letter words containing g, e, t, s, h
- ethnomusicologist — A researcher in the field of ethnomusicology.
- fire extinguisher — a portable container, usually filled with special chemicals for putting out a fire.
- fire-extinguisher — a portable container, usually filled with special chemicals for putting out a fire.
- fishnet stockings — leg coverings for women, made from an open mesh fabric resembling netting
- flight instrument — any instrument used to indicate the altitude, attitude, airspeed, drift, or direction of an aircraft.
- flight supplement — an additional charge payable on the price of an air ticket
- fluorescent light — a fluorescent lamp in domestic or commercial use; a fluorescent strip
- freight insurance — insurance paid on goods in transport
- george washington — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
- gestatorial chair — a ceremonial chair on which the pope is carried
- get in one's hair — to annoy one
- get off the grass — an exclamation of disbelief
- gethsemane cheese — a semisoft, mild, yellow cheese from whole milk, made by Trappist monks.
- give the business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- give up the ghost — the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
- globus hystericus — the sensation of having a lump in the throat or difficulty in swallowing for which no medical cause can be found.
- glory-of-the-snow — any of several plants belonging to the genus Chionodoxa, of the lily family, native to the Old World, having showy, blue, white, or pink flowers that bloom early in the spring.
- glymphatic system — Anatomy. the system or process by which cerebrospinal fluid moves through channels formed by glia, cleansing the mammalian brain of harmful waste.
- gnash one's teeth — If you say that someone is gnashing their teeth, you mean they are angry or frustrated about something.
- go by the wayside — to be put aside on account of something more urgent
- go like hot cakes — to be sold very quickly or in large quantities
- going to the dogs — If you say that something is going to the dogs, you mean that it is becoming weaker and worse in quality.
- grande chartreuse — the Carthusian monastery at Grenoble, France: the chief monastery of the Carthusians until 1903.
- great grey shrike — the bird Lanius excubitor
- great vowel shift — a series of changes in the quality of the long vowels between Middle and Modern English as a result of which all were raised, while the high vowels (ē) and (o̅o̅), already at the upper limit, underwent breaking to become the diphthongs (ī) and (ou).
- great white shark — a large shark, Carcharodon carcharias, of tropical and temperate seas, known to occasionally attack swimmers.
- greenhouse effect — an atmospheric heating phenomenon, caused by short-wave solar radiation being readily transmitted inward through the earth's atmosphere but longer-wavelength heat radiation less readily transmitted outward, owing to its absorption by atmospheric carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, and other gases; thus, the rising level of carbon dioxide is viewed with concern.
- grist to the mill — If you say that something is grist to the mill, you mean that it is useful for a particular purpose or helps support someone's point of view.
- ground angle shot — a photograph or film shot in which the lens is near the ground, usually pointing up somewhat
- handicap register — a list of the disabled people in its area that a local authority had a duty to compile under the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970
- hardware register — (hardware, system administration) (Or "hardware log") A list of all hardware, both internal and external, that is attached to a particular computer.
- hasbrouck heights — a borough in NE New Jersey.
- heartbreakingness — The state or quality of being heartbreaking.
- heating apparatus — an apparatus that heats something
- hemiglossectomies — Plural form of hemiglossectomy.
- heritage industry — an industry that manages the historical sites, buildings, and museums in a particular place, with the aim of encouraging tourism
- high-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.5 and 1.5 per cent carbon
- high-density disk — a computer storage disk capable of holding more than 720 kilobytes of data
- high-tensile wire — wire which can withstand great strain without breaking or becoming deformed
- hillcrest heights — a city in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- hold one's tongue — Anatomy. the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking.
- homogentisic acid — an intermediate compound in the metabolism of tyrosine and of phenylalanine, found in excess in the blood and urine of persons affected with alkaptonuria.
- hope against hope — the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best: to give up hope.
- horst wessel song — the official song of the Nazi party in Germany from 1933 to 1945.
- hospital gangrene — Pathology. a contagious, often fatal gangrene, especially involving amputation stumps and war wounds, occurring usually in crowded, ill-kept hospitals, and caused by putrefactive bacteria.
- housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
- indistinguishable — not distinguishable.
- integrated school — (in New Zealand) a private or church school that has joined the state school system
- kinesthesiologist — Someone who practices kinesthesiology.
- lagrange's method — a procedure for finding maximum and minimum values of a function of several variables when the variables are restricted by additional conditions.