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17-letter words containing r, i, g, h, t, s

  • 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.
  • spectroheliograph — an apparatus for making photographs of the sun with a monochromatic light to show the details of the sun's surface and surroundings as they would appear if the sun emitted only that light.
  • spiritual healing — faith healing
  • squatter's rights — the rights to a property claimed by someone who has occupied it in the owner's absence
  • stereolithography — a process for creating three-dimensional objects using a computer-controlled laser to build up the required structure, layer by layer, from a liquid photopolymer that solidifies.
  • straight arm lift — a wrestling attack, in which a wrestler twists the opponent's arm against the joint and lifts him or her by it, often using the shoulder as a fulcrum
  • 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.
  • 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 bag of tricks — every device; everything
  • the bright lights — places of entertainment in a city
  • the lower regions — hell
  • the right side of — in favour with
  • 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.
  • tiglath-pileser i — died 1102? b.c, king of Assyria c1115–1102?.
  • 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)
  • visitation rights — the legal right granted to a divorced or separated parent to visit a child in the custody of the other parent.
  • warehousing costs — the costs involved in storing goods in a warehouse
  • washington square — a short novel (1881) by Henry James.
  • wheatstone bridge — a circuit for measuring an unknown resistance by comparing it with known resistances.
  • wuthering heights — a novel (1846) by Emily Brontë.
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