17-letter words containing g, i, l, e, t
- self-perpetuating — continuing oneself in office, rank, etc., beyond the normal limit.
- sentencing circle — a method of dispensing justice amongst native Canadian peoples involving discussion between offenders, victims, and members of the community
- separating funnel — a large funnel having a tap in its output tube, used to separate immiscible liquids
- septicemic plague — an especially dangerous form of plague in which the infecting organisms invade the bloodstream. Compare plague (def 2).
- sexual generation — the gametophyte generation in the alternation of generations in plants that produces a zygote from male and female gametes.
- 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
- shipping articles — articles of agreement.
- 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.
- similar triangles — triangles that are similar due to the equality of corresponding angles and the proportional similarity of the corresponding sides
- single supplement — A single supplement is an additional sum of money that a hotel charges for one person to stay in a room meant for two people.
- single-sheet feed — a mechanism for feeding or taking single sheets of paper into a printer
- single-track road — a road that is only wide enough for one vehicle
- sleeping position — the position that you sleep in
- sleeping quarters — the rooms where people sleep in a large building or complex or on a boat etc
- social networking — the development of social and professional contacts; the sharing of information and services among people with a common interest.
- solicitor general — a law officer who maintains the rights of the state in suits affecting the public interest, next in rank to the attorney general.
- south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
- southern triangle — the constellation Triangulum Australe.
- 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.
- spinal meningitis — infection of spinal membrane
- spiritual healing — faith healing
- split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
- state legislature — laws of a country
- 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.
- sting in the tail — an unexpected and unpleasant ending
- stolen generation — Aboriginal children removed from their families and placed in institutions or fostered by White families between 1910 and 1970
- strange interlude — a play (1928) by Eugene O'Neill.
- swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
- synthetic biology — the application of computer science techniques to create artificial biological systems
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- technical college — school of further and vocational education
- technical drawing — the study and practice, esp as a subject taught in school, of the basic techniques of draughtsmanship, as employed in mechanical drawing, architecture, etc
- 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.
- 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
- television lounge — a room in a hotel, guest house, etc where guests may watch television
- television rights — the rights to televise something, such as a sporting event
- terrestrial globe — the planet Earth (usually preceded by the).
- the bright lights — places of entertainment in a city
- the enlightenment — an 18th-century philosophical movement stressing the importance of reason and the critical reappraisal of existing ideas and social institutions
- the glacial epoch — the Pleistocene Epoch
- the lower regions — hell
- the neolithic age — the last part of the Stone Age, where metal tools became widespread
- the whole boiling — the whole lot
- 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.
- tibetan highlands — Tibet, Plateau of.