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17-letter words containing g, l, o, s, e

  • osculating circle — circle of curvature.
  • pastoral theology — the branch of theology dealing with the responsibilities of members of the clergy to the people under their care.
  • personnel manager — head of Human Resources department
  • philosopher kings — the Platonic ideal of a ruler, philosophically trained and enlightened.
  • pillion passenger — a person who travels in a seat or place behind the rider of a motorcycle, scooter, horse, etc
  • pointer swizzling — swizzle
  • positive theology — a theological approach or tradition in which the nature of God is thought to be knowable and is understood through positive statements. See also cataphasis (def 2).
  • postural drainage — a therapy for clearing congested lungs by placing the patient in a position for drainage by gravity, often accompanied by percussion with hollowed hands.
  • prolonged-release — A prolonged-release drug delivers a dose of a medication over an extended period of time.
  • prosperity gospel — a modern version or, according to some, perversion of the gospel according to which the full blessings of God available to those who approach Him in faith and obedience include wealth, health and power
  • pseudo-biological — pertaining to biology.
  • pull one's weight — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
  • put on the gloves — to box
  • pyroligneous acid — a yellowish, acidic, water-soluble liquid, containing about 10 percent acetic acid, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood: used for smoking meats.
  • pythagorean scale — the major scale as derived acoustically by Pythagoras from the perfect fifth.
  • rattle one's dags — to hurry up
  • reformed spelling — a revised orthography intended to simplify the spelling of English words, especially to eliminate unpronounced letters, as by substituting thru for through, tho for though, slo for slow, etc.
  • register of wills — (in some states of the U.S.) the official charged with the probate of wills or with the keeping of the records of the probate court.
  • ringer's solution — an aqueous solution of the chlorides of sodium, potassium, and calcium in the same concentrations as normal body fluids, used chiefly in the laboratory for sustaining tissue.
  • rio grande do sul — a state in S Brazil. 107,923 sq. mi. (279,520 sq. km). Capital: Pôrto Alegre.
  • salt negotiations — international diplomatic discussions carried out in connection with SALT
  • sea grant college — a college or university doing research on marine resources under the U.S. National Sea Grant College and Program Act of 1966.
  • secondary glazing — insulation by means of a second pane of glass, or a sheet of plastic: a simple form of double glazing
  • secondary sealing — Secondary sealing is a system of wiper seals used in floating roof tanks.
  • self-acknowledged — widely recognized; generally accepted: an acknowledged authority on Chinese art.
  • self-conditioning — Also called operant conditioning, instrumental conditioning. a process of changing behavior by rewarding or punishing a subject each time an action is performed until the subject associates the action with pleasure or distress.
  • self-constituting — to compose; form: mortar constituted of lime and sand.
  • self-flagellation — the act or process of flagellating.
  • self-rising flour — Self-rising flour is flour that makes cakes rise when they are cooked because it has chemicals added to it.
  • semi-biographical — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
  • sexual generation — the gametophyte generation in the alternation of generations in plants that produces a zygote from male and female gametes.
  • sheepswool sponge — wool sponge.
  • 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
  • shetland sheepdog — one of a breed of small sheepdogs resembling a miniature collie, raised originally in the Shetland Islands.
  • 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.
  • single-track road — a road that is only wide enough for one vehicle
  • sleeping position — the position that you sleep in
  • sleeping problems — difficulties in getting to sleep or in staying asleep
  • 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.
  • soft-rock geology — geology dealing with sedimentary rocks.
  • 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 schooling — the system of educating children with special needs in schools designed to meet their needs
  • 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.
  • split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
  • 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.
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