17-letter words containing r, e, g, n, t, b
- in the background — behind the focus of attention
- inalienable right — right that cannot be taken away
- job-order costing — a method of cost accounting by which the total cost of a given unit or quantity is determined by computing the costs that go into making a product as it moves through the manufacturing process.
- lebesgue integral — an integral obtained by application of the theory of measure and more general than the Riemann integral.
- madiba generation — the generation born around 1994, when Nelson Mandela became the first president of a multiracial South Africa
- number eight iron — a club with an iron head the face of which has more slope than a pitcher but less slope than a niblick.
- number eight wire — a standard gauge of fencing wire
- plumbing fixtures — things such as pipes, sinks, toilets that are fixed in position in a building
- receiving blanket — a small blanket, usually of cotton, for wrapping an infant, especially following a bath.
- 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.
- salt-rising bread — a kind of bread leavened with a fermented mixture of salted milk, cornmeal, flour, sugar, and soda.
- split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
- steamboat springs — a town in NW Colorado: ski resort.
- substantive right — a right, as life, liberty, or property, recognized for its own sake and as part of the natural legal order of society.
- 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
- 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.
- terrorist bombing — the bombing of a place carried out in order to achieve some goal
- third-degree burn — a burned place or area: a burn where fire had ripped through the forest.
- wang laboratories — (body) Computer manufacturer, known for their office automation products and the Wang PC. Quarterly sales $208M, profits $3M (Aug 1994).
- wedding breakfast — meal served at wedding reception
- wheatstone bridge — a circuit for measuring an unknown resistance by comparing it with known resistances.
- working substance — a substance, usually a fluid, that undergoes changes in pressure, temperature, volume, or form as part of a process for accomplishing work.