17-letter words containing m, u, s, e, g
- performance drugs — the drugs that are taken illegally by athletes to enhance their sporting performance
- picture messaging — Picture messaging is the sending of photographs or pictures from one mobile phone to another.
- plumbing fixtures — things such as pipes, sinks, toilets that are fixed in position in a building
- postage due stamp — a stamp that is affixed to mail at a post office when prepayment of postage is insufficient, to indicate the amount that must be collected from the addressee.
- queen's messenger — a person who takes dispatches to or from the sovereign
- request programme — a programme on the radio where listeners can request certain songs or tracks
- sandringham house — a residence of the royal family, in Sandringham, a village in E England, in Norfolk near the E shore of the Wash
- self-priming pump — A self-priming pump is a pump that will clear its passages of air and start pumping.
- septicemic plague — an especially dangerous form of plague in which the infecting organisms invade the bloodstream. Compare plague (def 2).
- single supplement — A single supplement is an additional sum of money that a hotel charges for one person to stay in a room meant for two people.
- sliding vane pump — A sliding vane pump is a pump in which the vanes (=flat parts) are the main sealing element between the suction and discharge areas.
- sound spectrogram — a graphic representation, produced by a sound spectrograph, of the frequency, intensity, duration, and variation with time of the resonance of a sound or series of sounds.
- south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
- squeegee merchant — a person who attempts to make money by squeegeeing the windscreens of cars that are stopped at traffic lights and then asking for payment
- statutory meeting — company shareholders' discussion
- string instrument — a musical instrument that has strings, such as the violin or cello
- supply management — business purchasing
- 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.
- 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 major leagues — the two main leagues of professional baseball clubs in the U.S., the National League and the American League
- 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.
- unimaginativeness — the quality of being unimaginative
- universal grammar — a grammar that attempts to establish the properties and constraints common to all possible human languages.
- urogenital system — the urinary tract and reproductive organs
- user brain damage — (humour) (UBD) A description (usually abbreviated) used to close a trouble report obviously due to utter cluelessness on the user's part. Compare pilot error; opposite: PBD; see also brain-damaged, PEBCAK.