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17-letter words containing g, u, n, s, t, i

  • psycholinguistics — the study of the relationship between language and the cognitive or behavioral characteristics of those who use it.
  • publicity-seeking — eager to attract publicity
  • pull one's weight — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
  • pulsejet (engine) — a jet engine without a compressor or turbine, in which intermittent combustion provides the thrust
  • 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.
  • sanctions-busting — the deliberate disregarding of sanctions that are in force against a state, organization, etc
  • saturation diving — a method of prolonged diving, using an underwater habitat to allow divers to remain in the high-pressure environment of the ocean depths long enough for their body tissues to become saturated with the inert components of the pressurized gas mixture that they breathe: when this condition is reached, the amount of time required for decompression remains the same, whether the dive lasts a day, a week, or a month.
  • self-constituting — to compose; form: mortar constituted of lime and sand.
  • self-perpetuating — continuing oneself in office, rank, etc., beyond the normal limit.
  • 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
  • sexual generation — the gametophyte generation in the alternation of generations in plants that produces a zygote from male and female gametes.
  • 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
  • shipping industry — the industry concerned with transporting freight, esp by ship
  • shouting distance — hailing distance.
  • sign in (or out) — to sign a register on arrival (or departure)
  • single supplement — A single supplement is an additional sum of money that a hotel charges for one person to stay in a room meant for two people.
  • sleeping quarters — the rooms where people sleep in a large building or complex or on a boat etc
  • smoothing circuit — a circuit used to remove ripple from the output of a direct current power supply
  • social accounting — the analysis of the economy by sectors leading to the calculation and publication of economic statistics, such as gross national product and national income
  • 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.
  • spiritual healing — faith healing
  • statutory meeting — company shareholders' discussion
  • strange interlude — a play (1928) by Eugene O'Neill.
  • stretching course — (in brickwork) a course of stretchers.
  • string instrument — a musical instrument that has strings, such as the violin or cello
  • substantive right — a right, as life, liberty, or property, recognized for its own sake and as part of the natural legal order of society.
  • 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.
  • teething troubles — Teething troubles are the same as teething problems.
  • television lounge — a room in a hotel, guest house, etc where guests may watch television
  • the night's a pup — it's early yet
  • the upper regions — the sky; heavens
  • three-ring circus — a circus having three adjacent rings in which performances take place simultaneously.
  • thuringian forest — a forested mountain region in central Germany: a resort area.
  • till eulenspiegel — a legendary German peasant of the 14th century whose practical jokes yielded many stories.
  • top-security wing — a wing of a prison, mental hospital, etc that has a very high level of precautions against escape
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • undistinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • unimaginativeness — the quality of being unimaginative
  • unique id listing — (messaging)   (UIDL) A system used by POP3 electronic mail servers to uniquely identify a mail message. Normally, a message is identified by its position in the list of messages but this will change when an earlier message is deleted. The UIDL is a fixed string of characters which is unique to the message. The UIDL of a message never changes and will never be reused, even when the message has been deleted from the user's mailbox.
  • university degree — an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study
  • unlisted building — a building that is not amongst those buildings officially recognized as having special historical or architectural interest and therefore protected from demolition or alteration
  • urogenital system — the urinary tract and reproductive organs
  • utagawa kuniyoshi — original name Igusa Magosabwo. 1797–1861, Japanese painter and printmaker of the ukiyo-e school, best known for his prints of warriors and landscapes
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