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17-letter words containing r, e, s, g, t

  • heartbreakingness — The state or quality of being heartbreaking.
  • heating apparatus — an apparatus that heats something
  • heritage industry — an industry that manages the historical sites, buildings, and museums in a particular place, with the aim of encouraging tourism
  • high-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.5 and 1.5 per cent carbon
  • high-tensile wire — wire which can withstand great strain without breaking or becoming deformed
  • hillcrest heights — a city in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
  • horst wessel song — the official song of the Nazi party in Germany from 1933 to 1945.
  • hospital gangrene — Pathology. a contagious, often fatal gangrene, especially involving amputation stumps and war wounds, occurring usually in crowded, ill-kept hospitals, and caused by putrefactive bacteria.
  • housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
  • image intensifier — any of various devices for amplifying the intensity of an optical image, sometimes used in conjunction with an image converter
  • immigrant workers — people who work in a country they arrived to in order to settle there
  • industrial design — the art that deals with the design problems of manufactured objects, including problems of designing such objects with consideration for available materials and means of production, of designing packages, bottles, etc., for manufactured goods, and of graphic design for manufactured objects, packages, etc.
  • inspector general — a comedy (1836) by Gogol.
  • inspector-general — a comedy (1836) by Gogol.
  • instrument flying — the control and navigation of an aircraft by reference to its gauges, with no or only limited visual reference outside the cockpit.
  • integer specratio — SPECint92
  • integral calculus — the branch of mathematics that deals with integrals, especially the methods of ascertaining indefinite integrals and applying them to the solution of differential equations and the determining of areas, volumes, and lengths.
  • integrated course — a course that covers several subjects
  • integrated optics — an assembly of miniature optical elements of a size comparable to those used in electronic integrated circuits.
  • integrated school — (in New Zealand) a private or church school that has joined the state school system
  • intensive farming — battery rearing of animals
  • interior designer — a person whose profession is the execution of interior design.
  • internet registry — (IR) The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority has the discretionary authority to delegate portions of its responsibility and, with respect to network address and Autonomous System identifiers, has lodged this responsibility with the IR. The IR function is performed by the Defense Data Network Network Information Center.
  • intrusive testing — (testing)   Testing that collects timing and processing information during program execution that may change the behaviour of the software from its behavior in a real environment. Intrusive testing usually involves additional code embedded in the software being tested or additional processes running concurrently with software being tested on the same processor.
  • inverse cotangent — arc cotangent.
  • inversion casting — casting from an electric furnace inverted over the mold.
  • irrigation system — a system of supplying (land) with water by means of artificial canals, ditches, etc, esp to promote the growth of food crops
  • 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.
  • judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
  • lagrange's method — a procedure for finding maximum and minimum values of a function of several variables when the variables are restricted by additional conditions.
  • langerhans islets — islets of Langerhans
  • langmuir isotherm — A Langmuir isotherm is a classical relationship between the concentrations of a solid and a fluid, used to describe a state of no change in the sorption process.
  • language transfer — transfer (def 20).
  • lebesgue integral — an integral obtained by application of the theory of measure and more general than the Riemann integral.
  • lepidopterologist — One who studies lepidopterology.
  • let something rip — If you let something rip, you do it as quickly or as forcefully as possible. You can say 'let it rip' or 'let her rip' to someone when you want them to make a vehicle go as fast as it possibly can.
  • lighthouse keeper — a person who mans a lighthouse and makes sure that the light is working properly
  • linear assignment — assignment problem
  • louisiana tanager — western tanager.
  • magnetic roasting — roasting of a nonmagnetic ore to render it magnetic so that it can be separated from gangue by means of a magnetic field.
  • magnetoresistance — a change in the electrical resistance of a material upon exposure to a magnetic field.
  • management course — a course provided by an educational establishment such as a university, which teaches skills concerning the management of a company, business, etc
  • mass spectrograph — a mass spectroscope for recording a mass spectrum on a photographic plate.
  • massage therapist — sb who gives body rubs
  • merchant shipping — shipping which is involved in commerce (rather than defence, etc)
  • messier catalogue — a catalogue of 103 nonstellar objects, such as nebulae and galaxies, prepared in 1781–86. An object is referred to by its number in this catalogue, for example the Andromeda Galaxy is referred to as M31
  • ministering angel — a spirit who is believed to look after the needs of a particular person or group
  • mischaracterizing — Present participle of mischaracterize.
  • misunderstandings — Plural form of misunderstanding.
  • modest mussorgski — Modest Petrovich [moh-dest pi-troh-vich;; Russian muh-dyest pyi-traw-vyich] /moʊˈdɛst pɪˈtroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian mʌˈdyɛst pyɪˈtrɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Moussorgsky, Modest Petrovich.
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