17-letter words containing g, r, a, s, h, e
- spherical polygon — a closed figure formed by arcs of great circles on a spherical surface.
- spiritual healing — faith healing
- spongy parenchyma — the lower layer of the ground tissue of a leaf, characteristically containing irregularly shaped cells with relatively few chloroplasts and large intercellular spaces.
- 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.
- squatter's rights — the rights to a property claimed by someone who has occupied it in the owner's absence
- squeegee merchant — a person who attempts to make money by squeegeeing the windscreens of cars that are stopped at traffic lights and then asking for payment
- stage-door johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
- 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.
- stereophotography — photography producing stereoscopic images.
- substantive right — a right, as life, liberty, or property, recognized for its own sake and as part of the natural legal order of society.
- teachers' college — a college, usually having a four-year curriculum and granting a bachelor's degree, for training teachers for elementary and secondary schools
- teaching software — computer software for use in providing online education
- the age of reason — the 18th century in W Europe
- the bag of tricks — every device; everything
- the major leagues — the two main leagues of professional baseball clubs in the U.S., the National League and the American League
- threshing machine — a machine for removing grains and seeds from straw and chaff.
- thuringian forest — a forested mountain region in central Germany: a resort area.
- tiglath-pileser i — died 1102? b.c, king of Assyria c1115–1102?.
- to argue the toss — If you say that someone argues the toss, you are criticizing them for continuing to argue for longer than is necessary about something that is not very important.
- trigger mechanism — a physiological or psychological process caused by a stimulus and resulting in a usually severe reaction.
- turbosupercharger — (formerly) a turbocharger.
- 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.
- vaginal discharge — emission from the female genitalia
- verkhoyansk range — a mountain range in the Sakha Republic, in E Siberia, Russia. About 600 miles (970 km) long.
- warehousing costs — the costs involved in storing goods in a warehouse
- washington square — a short novel (1881) by Henry James.
- wheatstone bridge — a circuit for measuring an unknown resistance by comparing it with known resistances.
- wring one's hands — If someone wrings their hands, they hold them together and twist and turn them, usually because they are very worried or upset about something. You can also say that someone is wringing their hands when they are expressing sorrow that a situation is so bad but are saying that they are unable to change it.