17-letter words containing g, r, a, p, l, e
- pythagorean scale — the major scale as derived acoustically by Pythagoras from the perfect fifth.
- repeating decimal — a decimal numeral that, after a certain point, consists of a group of one or more digits repeated ad infinitum, as 2.33333 …. or 23.0218181818 ….
- repertory catalog — a catalog containing bibliographic records that indicate locations of materials in more than one library or in several units of one library.
- role-playing game — a game in which participants adopt the roles of imaginary characters in an adventure under the direction of a Game Master.
- self-depreciating — self-deprecating.
- self-impregnating — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
- self-perpetuating — continuing oneself in office, rank, etc., beyond the normal limit.
- semi-biographical — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
- separating funnel — a large funnel having a tap in its output tube, used to separate immiscible liquids
- shipping articles — articles of agreement.
- single-name paper — commercial paper bearing only the signature of the maker.
- sleeping quarters — the rooms where people sleep in a large building or complex or on a boat etc
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- tiglath-pileser i — died 1102? b.c, king of Assyria c1115–1102?.
- travelling people — Gypsies or other itinerant people: a term used esp by such people of themselves
- vertical planning — the planning of education delivered in schools discussed between teachers of different classes or grades
- 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.
- wage-price spiral — a situation in which wage and price increases drive each other upward and cause inflation
- weeping lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
- well-photographed — a picture produced by photography.
- zonal pelargonium — a pelargonium whose leaves are marked with concentric circles of a different colour to the rest of the leaf
- zoogeographically — In a zoogeographical way.