17-letter words containing n, i, g, h, t, s
- pull one's weight — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
- reverse lightning — a faint discharge of blue light from the top of a thunderstorm cloud that propagates upward: extends approximately from the bottom to the top of the stratosphere and is not detectable from the ground.
- right parenthesis — (character) ")". ASCII character 41. Common names: right paren; right parenthesis; right; close; thesis ("(" = paren); close paren; close parenthesis; right parenthesis; right banana. Rare: already ("(" = so); rparen; ITU-T: closing parenthesis; close round bracket, right round bracket, INTERCAL: wane ("(" = wax); unparenthisey ("(" = parenthisey); right ear. Paired with left parenthesis.
- scarlet lightning — scarlet lychnis.
- schiff-s--reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
- see someone right — to ensure fair treatment of (someone)
- sheltered housing — accommodation designed esp for the elderly or infirm consisting of a group of individual premises, often with some shared facilities and a caretaker
- shipping articles — articles of agreement.
- shipping industry — the industry concerned with transporting freight, esp by ship
- shit on a shingle — creamed chipped beef or ground beef in a sauce, served on toast.
- shoestring tackle — a tackle made around the ankles of the ball carrier.
- shooting incident — an incident involving guns
- 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.
- single-sheet feed — a mechanism for feeding or taking single sheets of paper into a printer
- 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.
- spaghetti western — a low-budget western movie shot in Italy or Spain, usually with Italian actors and an American star.
- spaghettification — the theoretical stretching of an object as it encounters extreme differences in gravitational forces, especially those associated with a black hole.
- spiritual healing — faith healing
- sting in the tail — an unexpected and unpleasant ending
- stretching course — (in brickwork) a course of stretchers.
- substantive right — a right, as life, liberty, or property, recognized for its own sake and as part of the natural legal order of society.
- 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
- 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 rights — the rights to televise something, such as a sporting event
- 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.
- 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.
- trigger mechanism — a physiological or psychological process caused by a stimulus and resulting in a usually severe reaction.
- 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.
- 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