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17-letter words containing o, u, t, g

  • pre-configuration — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
  • prerogative court — a former ecclesiastical court in England and Ireland for the trial of certain testamentary cases.
  • prescription drug — medication available only on doctor's instruction
  • production string — A production string is the series of pipes through which the oil or gas is brought up from the reservoir.
  • 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
  • put the finger on — to inform on or identify, esp for the police
  • quantum computing — quantum computer
  • recreation ground — an open space for public recreation, esp one in a town, with swings and slides, etc, for children
  • recreational drug — drug taken for pleasure
  • recruiting office — an office where staff are recruited, esp by the military
  • request programme — a programme on the radio where listeners can request certain songs or tracks
  • returning officer — a public official appointed to conduct and preside at an election.
  • ring in (or out) — to punch in (or out)
  • 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.
  • rough puff pastry — a rich flaky pastry made with butter and used for pie-crusts, flans, etc
  • rub the wrong way — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
  • sanctions-busting — the deliberate disregarding of sanctions that are in force against a state, organization, etc
  • saturation diving — a method of prolonged diving, using an underwater habitat to allow divers to remain in the high-pressure environment of the ocean depths long enough for their body tissues to become saturated with the inert components of the pressurized gas mixture that they breathe: when this condition is reached, the amount of time required for decompression remains the same, whether the dive lasts a day, a week, or a month.
  • sawed-off shotgun — rifle with a short barrel
  • saxe-coburg-gotha — a member of the present British royal family, from the establishment of the house in 1901 until 1917 when the family name was changed to Windsor.
  • self-constituting — to compose; form: mortar constituted of lime and sand.
  • sensitivity group — a group of persons participating in sensitivity training.
  • 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
  • shouting distance — hailing distance.
  • sign in (or out) — to sign a register on arrival (or departure)
  • smoothing circuit — a circuit used to remove ripple from the output of a direct current power supply
  • 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
  • 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.
  • south frigid zone — the part of the earth's surface between the Antarctic Circle and the South Pole.
  • southern triangle — the constellation Triangulum Australe.
  • stand your ground — relating to or denoting a legal principle or law that eliminates the duty to retreat by allowing, as a first response, self-defense by deadly force: We’re proud to represent Florida, the first stand your ground state.
  • statutory meeting — company shareholders' discussion
  • stretching course — (in brickwork) a course of stretchers.
  • stump-jump plough — a plough designed for use on land not cleared of stumps
  • subject catalogue — a catalogue with entries arranged by subject in a classified sequence
  • superregeneration — regeneration in which a signal is alternately amplified and quenched at a frequency slightly above the audible range to achieve high sensitivity with a single tube.
  • teething troubles — Teething troubles are the same as teething problems.
  • telecommunicating — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
  • television lounge — a room in a hotel, guest house, etc where guests may watch television
  • the bulldog breed — people who fought in either of the World Wars
  • the major leagues — the two main leagues of professional baseball clubs in the U.S., the National League and the American League
  • the upper regions — the sky; heavens
  • the witching hour — the hour at which witches are supposed to appear, usually midnight
  • theodore sturgeon — Theodore (Hamilton) 1918–85, U.S. science-fiction writer.
  • 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.
  • thought-provoking — If something such as a book or a film is thought-provoking, it contains interesting ideas that make people think seriously.
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