17-letter words containing g, u, s, h, i
- sandringham house — a residence of the royal family, in Sandringham, a village in E England, in Norfolk near the E shore of the Wash
- 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.
- smoothing circuit — a circuit used to remove ripple from the output of a direct current power supply
- 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
- 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
- stretching course — (in brickwork) a course of stretchers.
- substantive right — a right, as life, liberty, or property, recognized for its own sake and as part of the natural legal order of society.
- teething troubles — Teething troubles are the same as teething problems.
- 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.
- to the lighthouse — a novel (1927) by Virginia Woolf.
- 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.
- 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
- utmost good faith — a principle used in insurance contracts, legally obliging all parties to reveal to the others any information that might influence the others' decision to enter into the contract
- vanity publishing — the practice of the author of a book paying all or most of the costs of its publication
- warehousing costs — the costs involved in storing goods in a warehouse
- washing-up liquid — Washing-up liquid is a thick soapy liquid which you add to hot water to clean dirty dishes.
- washington square — a short novel (1881) by Henry James.
- with guns blazing — If you come out with guns blazing or with all guns blazing, you put all your effort and energy into trying to achieve something.
- wuthering heights — a novel (1846) by Emily Brontë.
- 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.