17-letter words containing l, g, e

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.
technical college — school of further and vocational education
technical drawing — the study and practice, esp as a subject taught in school, of the basic techniques of draughtsmanship, as employed in mechanical drawing, architecture, etc
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.
telecommunicating — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
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
telephone message — a message that is transmitted by telephone
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
terrestrial globe — the planet Earth (usually preceded by the).
the bright lights — places of entertainment in a city
the bulldog breed — people who fought in either of the World Wars
the enlightenment — an 18th-century philosophical movement stressing the importance of reason and the critical reappraisal of existing ideas and social institutions
the glacial epoch — the Pleistocene Epoch
the good old days — When people refer to the good old days, they are referring to a time in the past when they think that life was better than it is now.
the last judgment — the occasion, after the resurrection of the dead at the end of the world, when, according to biblical tradition, God will decree the final destinies of all men according to the good and evil in their earthly lives
the lower regions — hell
the major leagues — the two main leagues of professional baseball clubs in the U.S., the National League and the American League
the neolithic age — the last part of the Stone Age, where metal tools became widespread
the old gentleman — a jocular name for Satan
the whole boiling — the whole lot
the whole shebang — The whole shebang is the whole situation or business that you are describing.
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.
thomson's gazelle — a medium-sized antelope, Gazella thomsoni, abundant on the grassy steppes and dry bush of the East African plains.
thread-legged bug — any of certain insects of the family Reduviidae, characterized by an elongated, slender body and long frail legs, the front pair of which are raptorial.
three-legged race — a race among a number of paired contestants, each contestant having one leg tied to the adjacent leg of his or her partner.
through the floor — If you say that prices or sales have fallen through the floor, you mean that they have suddenly decreased.
tibetan highlands — Tibet, Plateau of.
tiger swallowtail — a yellow swallowtail butterfly, Papilio glaucus, of eastern North America, having the forewings striped with black.
tiglath-pileser i — died 1102? b.c, king of Assyria c1115–1102?.
till eulenspiegel — a legendary German peasant of the 14th century whose practical jokes yielded many stories.
to a large extent — greatly
to lose your grip — If you lose your grip, you become less efficient and less confident, and less able to deal with things.
to steal a glance — If you steal a glance at someone or something, you look at them quickly so that nobody sees you looking.
to the lighthouse — a novel (1927) by Virginia Woolf.
topological space — a set with a collection of subsets or open sets satisfying the properties that the union of open sets is an open set, the intersection of two open sets is an open set, and the given set and the empty set are open sets.
trailing geranium — an ivy-leaved variety of geranium, Pelargonium peltatum
travelling people — Gypsies or other itinerant people: a term used esp by such people of themselves
tree of knowledge — the tree whose fruit Adam and Eve tasted in disobedience of God: Gen. 2, 3
trifoliate orange — a spiny, Chinese orange tree, Poncirus trifoliata, used as a stock in grafting and for hedges.
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.
undistinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
unintelligibility — the quality of being unintelligible
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.
unlisted building — a building that is not amongst those buildings officially recognized as having special historical or architectural interest and therefore protected from demolition or alteration

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