17-letter words containing g, l, a, i, r
- 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-name paper — commercial paper bearing only the signature of the maker.
- single-track road — a road that is only wide enough for one vehicle
- sleeping quarters — the rooms where people sleep in a large building or complex or on a boat etc
- slings and arrows — Slings and arrows are unpleasant things that happen to you and that are not your fault.
- smarandache logic — neutrosophic logic
- social networking — the development of social and professional contacts; the sharing of information and services among people with a common interest.
- social notworking — the practice of spending time unproductively on social networking websites, esp when one should be working
- 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.
- special messenger — a postal worker who delivers mail by special delivery
- special privilege — exclusive advantage
- 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.
- spherical polygon — a closed figure formed by arcs of great circles on a spherical surface.
- spiral bevel gear — a bevel gear having curved teeth tending to converge on the axis of rotation.
- spiritual healing — faith healing
- split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
- spruce gall aphid — any of various homopterous insects of the family Adelgidae, as Adelges abietis (spruce gall aphid) and Pineus pinifoliae (pine leaf aphid) that feed and form galls on conifers.
- 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.
- stolen generation — Aboriginal children removed from their families and placed in institutions or fostered by White families between 1910 and 1970
- straight arm lift — a wrestling attack, in which a wrestler twists the opponent's arm against the joint and lifts him or her by it, often using the shoulder as a fulcrum
- strange interlude — a play (1928) by Eugene O'Neill.
- subclavian groove — either of two grooves in the first rib, one for the main artery (subclavian artery) and the other for the main vein (subclavian vein) of the arm
- subsidiary ledger — (in accounting) a ledger containing a group of detailed and related accounts the total of which is summarized in the control account.
- surgical dressing — a dressing made of cotton, used for incisions made during surgery
- 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
- 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
- terrestrial globe — the planet Earth (usually preceded by the).
- 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.
- tiger swallowtail — a yellow swallowtail butterfly, Papilio glaucus, of eastern North America, having the forewings striped with black.
- tiglath-pileser i — died 1102? b.c, king of Assyria c1115–1102?.
- topological group — a set that is a group and a topological space and for which the group operation and the map of an element to its inverse are continuous functions.
- traditional logic — formal logic based on syllogistic formulas, especially as developed by Aristotle.
- trailing geranium — an ivy-leaved variety of geranium, Pelargonium peltatum
- travelling people — Gypsies or other itinerant people: a term used esp by such people of themselves
- triangular matrix — a square matrix in which either all the entries above the principal diagonal, or all the entries below the principal diagonal, are zero.
- trifoliate orange — a spiny, Chinese orange tree, Poncirus trifoliata, used as a stock in grafting and for hedges.
- ultimate strength — the quantity of the utmost tensile, compressive, or shearing stress that a given unit area of a certain material is expected to bear without failing.
- unipalm group plc — (company) A company floated in March 1994.
- universal algebra — (logic) The model theory of first-order equational logic.
- universal grammar — a grammar that attempts to establish the properties and constraints common to all possible human languages.
- urogenital system — the urinary tract and reproductive organs
- vaginal discharge — emission from the female genitalia
- variable-geometry — denoting an aircraft in which the wings are hinged to give the variable aspect ratio colloquially known as a swing-wing
- vertical planning — the planning of education delivered in schools discussed between teachers of different classes or grades
- visitors' gallery — a balcony in a building such as a parliament or court where members of the public can sit
- vulcan death grip — (jargon) A variant of Vulcan nerve pinch derived from a Star Trek classic epsisode where a non-existant "Vulcan death grip" was used to fool Romulans that Spock had killed Kirk.