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17-letter words containing n, e, u, p, h, a

  • rhodope mountains — a mountain range in SE Europe, in the Balkan Peninsula extending along the border between Bulgaria and Greece. Highest peak: Golyam Perelik (Bulgaria), 2191 m (7188 ft)
  • shetland pullover — a thick woollen sweater made from Shetland wool
  • south sea company — a British joint stock company that traded in South America in the 18th century. The South Sea Company took over the national debt in return for a monopoly of trade with the South Seas, causing feverish speculation in their stocks, and a financial crash in 1720 (the South Sea Bubble)
  • southampton water — an inlet of the English Channel in S England
  • southern sporades — a group of Greek islands in the Aegean, including the Dodecanese, lying off the SW coast of Turkey
  • spanish influenza — the pandemic respiratory infection that spread throughout the world during 1917–18.
  • spiritual healing — faith healing
  • support mechanism — any formal system or method of providing support or assistance
  • technical support — an advising and troubleshooting service provided by a manufacturer, typically a software or hardware developer, to its customers, often online or on the telephone.
  • the night's a pup — it's early yet
  • therapeutic index — the ratio between the dosage of a drug that causes a lethal effect and the dosage that causes a therapeutic effect.
  • thermal pollution — a rise in the temperature of rivers or lakes that is injurious to water-dwelling life and is caused by the disposal of heated industrial waste water or water from the cooling towers of nuclear power plants.
  • thiopental sodium — a barbiturate, C 11 H 18 N 2 NaO 2 S, used as an anesthetic in surgery and, in psychiatry, for narcoanalysis and to stimulate recall of past events.
  • thousandths-place — last in order of a series of a thousand.
  • unsympathetically — in a manner that is not characterized by feeling or showing sympathy
  • up/raise the ante — If you up the ante or raise the ante, you increase your demands when you are in dispute or fighting for something.
  • ventura publisher — Corel VENTURA
  • 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.
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