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17-letter words containing i, n, o, t, h, g

  • shooting practice — practice in shooting for soldiers or other people who shoot guns
  • shopping precinct — pedestrian area with shops
  • shouting distance — hailing distance.
  • sign of the cross — a movement of the hand to indicate a cross, as from forehead to breast and left shoulder to right or, in the Eastern Orthodox Church, from right shoulder to left.
  • significant other — Sociology. a person, as a parent or peer, who has great influence on one's behavior and self-esteem.
  • 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.
  • spaghettification — the theoretical stretching of an object as it encounters extreme differences in gravitational forces, especially those associated with a black hole.
  • stretching course — (in brickwork) a course of stretchers.
  • swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
  • switching station — A switching station is equipment used to tie together two or more electric circuits through switches.
  • synthetic biology — the application of computer science techniques to create artificial biological systems
  • 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
  • technical college — school of further and vocational 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.
  • telephone banking — a facility enabling customers to make use of banking services, such as oral payment instructions, account movements, raising loans, etc, over the telephone rather than by personal visit
  • television rights — the rights to televise something, such as a sporting event
  • the lower regions — hell
  • the morning after — the aftereffects of excess, esp a hangover
  • the neolithic age — the last part of the Stone Age, where metal tools became widespread
  • the upper regions — the sky; heavens
  • the whole boiling — the whole lot
  • 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.
  • thought-provoking — If something such as a book or a film is thought-provoking, it contains interesting ideas that make people think seriously.
  • thuringian forest — a forested mountain region in central Germany: a resort area.
  • 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.
  • turkish towelling — woven cloth which is used to make towels, wash cloths, etc
  • 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)
  • 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
  • visitation rights — the legal right granted to a divorced or separated parent to visit a child in the custody of the other parent.
  • warehousing costs — the costs involved in storing goods in a warehouse
  • washington island — an island off the Door Peninsula, NE Wisconsin, in NW Lake Michigan. 20 sq. mi. (50 sq. km).
  • washington square — a short novel (1881) by Henry James.
  • wheatstone bridge — a circuit for measuring an unknown resistance by comparing it with known resistances.
  • white-winged dove — a common dove, Zenaida asiatica, of the southwestern U.S. to Chile.
  • wings of the dove — a novel (1902) by Henry James.
  • youth programming — the creation and scheduling of television programmes specifically aimed at young people
  • zola technologies — (company)   Producers of the Z simulation language.
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