17-letter words containing g, r, o, t, i, n
- singer-songwriter — A singer-songwriter is someone who writes and performs their own songs, especially popular songs.
- single-track road — a road that is only wide enough for one vehicle
- smoothing circuit — a circuit used to remove ripple from the output of a direct current power supply
- 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
- software engineer — a person who writes computer programs
- 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.
- south frigid zone — the part of the earth's surface between the Antarctic Circle and the South Pole.
- southern triangle — the constellation Triangulum Australe.
- split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
- stationary engine — an engine mounted in a fixed position, as one used for driving generators, compressors, etc.
- statutory meeting — company shareholders' discussion
- steamboat springs — a town in NW Colorado: ski resort.
- steering geometry — Steering geometry is the geometric arrangement of the parts of a steering system, and the value of the lengths and angles within it.
- stolen generation — Aboriginal children removed from their families and placed in institutions or fostered by White families between 1910 and 1970
- stretching course — (in brickwork) a course of stretchers.
- 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.
- 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
- take in good part — to respond to (teasing) with good humour
- teaching software — computer software for use in providing online education
- teething problems — If a project or new product has teething problems, it has problems in its early stages or when it first becomes available.
- teething troubles — Teething troubles are the same as teething problems.
- television rights — the rights to televise something, such as a sporting event
- terrorist bombing — the bombing of a place carried out in order to achieve some goal
- the lower regions — hell
- the morning after — the aftereffects of excess, esp a hangover
- the upper regions — the sky; heavens
- the witching hour — the hour at which witches are supposed to appear, usually midnight
- 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.
- thought-provoking — If something such as a book or a film is thought-provoking, it contains interesting ideas that make people think seriously.
- thuringian forest — a forested mountain region in central Germany: a resort area.
- top-security wing — a wing of a prison, mental hospital, etc that has a very high level of precautions against escape
- traditional logic — formal logic based on syllogistic formulas, especially as developed by Aristotle.
- transignification — (in the Eucharist) a change in the significance of the bread and wine to symbolize the body and blood of Christ.
- transition region — a thin and very irregular layer of the sun's atmosphere that separates the hot corona from the much cooler chromosphere.
- travelling people — Gypsies or other itinerant people: a term used esp by such people of themselves
- trifoliate orange — a spiny, Chinese orange tree, Poncirus trifoliata, used as a stock in grafting and for hedges.
- tungsten trioxide — a heavy, canary-yellow, water-insoluble powder, WO 3 , used in the manufacture of tungstates.
- turbinado (sugar) — a partially refined, granulated, pale-brown sugar obtained by washing raw sugar in a centrifuge until most of the molasses is removed
- turkish towelling — woven cloth which is used to make towels, wash cloths, etc
- under the sign of — during that portion of the year when the sun is passing through and thus subject to the influence of (a specified sign of the zodiac)
- urogenital system — the urinary tract and reproductive organs
- visitation rights — the legal right granted to a divorced or separated parent to visit a child in the custody of the other parent.
- voice recognition — the control of a computer system by a voice or voices that the computer has been instructed to accept
- waiting for godot — a play (1952) by Samuel Beckett.
- wang laboratories — (body) Computer manufacturer, known for their office automation products and the Wang PC. Quarterly sales $208M, profits $3M (Aug 1994).
- warehousing costs — the costs involved in storing goods in a warehouse
- washington square — a short novel (1881) by Henry James.
- wedding reception — party after a marriage