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

  • paleobiogeography — the study of the distribution of ancient plants and animals and their relation to ancient geographic features.
  • partially sighted — unable to see properly so that even with corrective aids normal activities are prevented or seriously hindered
  • philosopher kings — the Platonic ideal of a ruler, philosophically trained and enlightened.
  • phonological rule — an operation in generative phonology that substitutes one sound or class of sounds for another in a phonological derivation.
  • pre-enlightenment — the act of enlightening.
  • pre-technological — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • pseudepigraphical — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
  • psychic energizer — Pharmacology. antidepressant (def 2).
  • put the finger on — to inform on or identify, esp for the police
  • radiometeorograph — a device for the automatic transmission by radio of the data from a set of meteorological instruments
  • right parenthesis — (character)   ")". ASCII character 41. Common names: right paren; right parenthesis; right; close; thesis ("(" = paren); close paren; close parenthesis; right parenthesis; right banana. Rare: already ("(" = so); rparen; ITU-T: closing parenthesis; close round bracket, right round bracket, INTERCAL: wane ("(" = wax); unparenthisey ("(" = parenthisey); right ear. Paired with left parenthesis.
  • schizophrenogenic — causative of schizophrenia.
  • semi-biographical — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
  • shipping articles — articles of agreement.
  • shooting practice — practice in shooting for soldiers or other people who shoot guns
  • shopping precinct — pedestrian area with shops
  • spaghetti western — a low-budget western movie shot in Italy or Spain, usually with Italian actors and an American star.
  • spectroheliograph — an apparatus for making photographs of the sun with a monochromatic light to show the details of the sun's surface and surroundings as they would appear if the sun emitted only that light.
  • spherical polygon — a closed figure formed by arcs of great circles on a spherical surface.
  • 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.
  • stereolithography — a process for creating three-dimensional objects using a computer-controlled laser to build up the required structure, layer by layer, from a liquid photopolymer that solidifies.
  • teaching practice — Teaching practice is a period that a student teacher spends teaching at a school as part of his or her training.
  • 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
  • tiglath-pileser i — died 1102? b.c, king of Assyria c1115–1102?.
  • uncomprehendingly — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • zoogeographically — In a zoogeographical way.
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