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17-letter words containing o, n, t, l, g

  • polarizing filter — a camera lens filter used to control the plane of polarization of light entering the lens.
  • portfolio manager — a person employed by others to make investments for them
  • postural drainage — a therapy for clearing congested lungs by placing the patient in a position for drainage by gravity, often accompanied by percussion with hollowed hands.
  • pre-technological — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • prothoracic gland — either of a pair of endocrine glands in the anterior thorax of some insects, functioning to promote the series of molts from hatching to adulthood.
  • psycholinguistics — the study of the relationship between language and the cognitive or behavioral characteristics of those who use it.
  • pull one's weight — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
  • put on the gloves — to box
  • pythagorean scale — the major scale as derived acoustically by Pythagoras from the perfect fifth.
  • rattle one's dags — to hurry up
  • recreational drug — drug taken for pleasure
  • ringer's solution — an aqueous solution of the chlorides of sodium, potassium, and calcium in the same concentrations as normal body fluids, used chiefly in the laboratory for sustaining tissue.
  • rocket technology — the technology of the design, operation, maintenance, and launching of rockets
  • salt negotiations — international diplomatic discussions carried out in connection with SALT
  • sea grant college — a college or university doing research on marine resources under the U.S. National Sea Grant College and Program Act of 1966.
  • self-conditioning — Also called operant conditioning, instrumental conditioning. a process of changing behavior by rewarding or punishing a subject each time an action is performed until the subject associates the action with pleasure or distress.
  • self-constituting — to compose; form: mortar constituted of lime and sand.
  • self-flagellation — the act or process of flagellating.
  • sexual generation — the gametophyte generation in the alternation of generations in plants that produces a zygote from male and female gametes.
  • 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
  • shetland sheepdog — one of a breed of small sheepdogs resembling a miniature collie, raised originally in the Shetland Islands.
  • 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.
  • single-track road — a road that is only wide enough for one vehicle
  • sleeping position — the position that you sleep in
  • social accounting — the analysis of the economy by sectors leading to the calculation and publication of economic statistics, such as gross national product and national income
  • social networking — the development of social and professional contacts; the sharing of information and services among people with a common interest.
  • social notworking — the practice of spending time unproductively on social networking websites, esp when one should be working
  • solicitor general — a law officer who maintains the rights of the state in suits affecting the public interest, next in rank to the attorney general.
  • south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • southern triangle — the constellation Triangulum Australe.
  • split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
  • stag's-horn coral — staghorn coral.
  • stolen generation — Aboriginal children removed from their families and placed in institutions or fostered by White families between 1910 and 1970
  • swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
  • synthetic biology — the application of computer science techniques to create artificial biological systems
  • taiping rebellion — a movement of religious mysticism and agrarian unrest in China between 1850 and 1864 which weakened the Manchu dynasty but was eventually suppressed with foreign aid
  • tangential motion — the component of the linear motion of a star with respect to the sun, measured along a line perpendicular to its line of sight and expressed in miles or kilometers per second.
  • 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
  • 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
  • the lower regions — hell
  • the neolithic age — the last part of the Stone Age, where metal tools became widespread
  • the old gentleman — a jocular name for Satan
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