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

  • sting in the tail — an unexpected and unpleasant ending
  • stolen generation — Aboriginal children removed from their families and placed in institutions or fostered by White families between 1910 and 1970
  • 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
  • subclavian groove — either of two grooves in the first rib, one for the main artery (subclavian artery) and the other for the main vein (subclavian vein) of the arm
  • 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.
  • surgical dressing — a dressing made of cotton, used for incisions made during surgery
  • suspension bridge — a bridge having a deck suspended from cables anchored at their extremities and usually raised on towers.
  • swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
  • sweating sickness — a febrile epidemic disease that appeared in the 15th and 16th centuries: characterized by profuse sweating and frequently fatal in a few hours.
  • switching station — A switching station is equipment used to tie together two or more electric circuits through switches.
  • symbolic language — a specialized language dependent upon the use of symbols for communication and created for the purpose of achieving greater exactitude, as in symbolic logic or mathematics.
  • synthetic biology — the application of computer science techniques to create artificial biological systems
  • take some beating — to be difficult to improve upon
  • teaching hospital — a hospital associated with a medical college and offering clinical and other facilities to those in various areas of medical study, as students, interns, and residents.
  • 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 lounge — a room in a hotel, guest house, etc where guests may watch television
  • 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
  • testimony meeting — a meeting at which persons give testimonies of religious faith and related religious experiences.
  • the lower regions — hell
  • 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.
  • threshing machine — a machine for removing grains and seeds from straw and chaff.
  • thuringian forest — a forested mountain region in central Germany: a resort area.
  • tibetan highlands — Tibet, Plateau of.
  • till eulenspiegel — a legendary German peasant of the 14th century whose practical jokes yielded many stories.
  • to say nothing of — You use to say nothing of when you mention an additional thing which gives even more strength to the point you are making.
  • top-security wing — a wing of a prison, mental hospital, etc that has a very high level of precautions against escape
  • trading standards — consumer organization
  • 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.
  • transverse engine — an engine which is fitted side-to-side across the axis of a vehicle
  • trigger mechanism — a physiological or psychological process caused by a stimulus and resulting in a usually severe reaction.
  • 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.
  • universal algebra — (logic)   The model theory of first-order equational logic.
  • universal grammar — a grammar that attempts to establish the properties and constraints common to all possible human languages.
  • university degree — an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study
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