17-letter words containing g, r, e, n, s, p
- sensitivity group — a group of persons participating in sensitivity training.
- separating funnel — a large funnel having a tap in its output tube, used to separate immiscible liquids
- separation energy — binding energy (def 1).
- severance package — an amount of compensation paid by an organization to an employee who leaves because, through no fault of their own, the job to which they were appointed ceases to exist, as during rationalization, and no comparable job is available to them
- shipping articles — articles of agreement.
- shooting practice — practice in shooting for soldiers or other people who shoot guns
- shopping precinct — pedestrian area with shops
- single-name paper — commercial paper bearing only the signature of the maker.
- sleeping problems — difficulties in getting to sleep or in staying asleep
- sleeping quarters — the rooms where people sleep in a large building or complex or on a boat etc
- sound spectrogram — a graphic representation, produced by a sound spectrograph, of the frequency, intensity, duration, and variation with time of the resonance of a sound or series of sounds.
- spaghetti western — a low-budget western movie shot in Italy or Spain, usually with Italian actors and an American star.
- special messenger — a postal worker who delivers mail by special delivery
- spherical polygon — a closed figure formed by arcs of great circles on a spherical surface.
- spiritual healing — faith healing
- split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
- 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.
- spread your wings — if you spread your wings, you do something new and rather difficult or move to a new place, because you feel more confident in your abilities than you used to and you want to gain wider experience
- spring cankerworm — the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
- springfield rifle — a single-shot, breechloading .45-caliber rifle used by the U.S. Army from 1867 to 1893.
- steamboat springs — a town in NW Colorado: ski resort.
- superregeneration — regeneration in which a signal is alternately amplified and quenched at a frequency slightly above the audible range to achieve high sensitivity with a single tube.
- suspension bridge — a bridge having a deck suspended from cables anchored at their extremities and usually raised on towers.
- teething problems — If a project or new product has teething problems, it has problems in its early stages or when it first becomes available.
- the upper regions — the sky; heavens
- top-security wing — a wing of a prison, mental hospital, etc that has a very high level of precautions against escape
- weeping lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
- yorkshire pudding — a pudding made of an unsweetened batter of flour, salt, eggs, and milk, baked under meat as it roasts to catch the drippings or baked separately with a small amount of meat drippings.