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17-letter words containing h, i, e, r, u, g

  • 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 humber bridge — a single-span suspension bridge (1981) that crosses the Humber, with a main span of 1410 m (4626 ft)
  • 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.
  • third-degree burn — a burned place or area: a burn where fire had ripped through the forest.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • uncomprehendingly — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
  • 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)
  • vulcan death grip — (jargon)   A variant of Vulcan nerve pinch derived from a Star Trek classic epsisode where a non-existant "Vulcan death grip" was used to fool Romulans that Spock had killed Kirk.
  • warehousing costs — the costs involved in storing goods in a warehouse
  • washington square — a short novel (1881) by Henry James.
  • without regard to — with no concern for
  • 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.
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