17-letter words containing s, h, e, l, g, a
- against the clock — If you are doing something against the clock, you are doing it in a great hurry, because there is very little time.
- all the trimmings — If you say that something comes with all the trimmings, you mean that it has many extra things added to it to make it more special.
- allergic rhinitis — a condition characterized by head congestion, sneezing, tearing, and swelling of the nasal mucous membranes, caused by an allergic reaction.
- american flagfish — flagfish (def 1).
- american-flagfish — flagfish (def 1).
- anaesthesiologist — anesthesiology.
- anesthesiologists — Plural form of anesthesiologist.
- arlington heights — village in NE Ill.: suburb of Chicago: pop. 76,000
- athlete's village — an area of accommodation for competitors taking part in a sports event
- bachelor's degree — A bachelor's degree is a first degree awarded by universities.
- bell-hanger's bit — a bit for drilling small holes through studs or the like.
- bergisch gladbach — city in W Germany, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia: pop. 105,000
- bergisch-gladbach — an industrial city in W Germany, near Cologne.
- biological shield — a protective shield impervious to radiation, esp the thick concrete wall surrounding the core of a nuclear reactor
- board-and-shingle — a small dwelling with wooden walls and a shingle roof
- bottlebrush grass — a North American grass, Hystrix patula, having loose flower spikes with long awns.
- bushman's singlet — a sleeveless heavy black woollen singlet, used as working clothing by timber fellers
- charles de gaulle — Charles André Joseph Marie [chahrlz ahn-drey joh-zuh f muh-ree;; French sharl ahn-drey zhoh-zef ma-ree] /tʃɑrlz ˈɑn dreɪ ˈdʒoʊ zəf məˈri;; French ʃarl ɑ̃ˈdreɪ ʒoʊˈzɛf maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1890–1970, French general and statesman: president 1959–69.
- charles lindbergh — Anne (Spencer) Morrow, 1906–2001, U.S. writer (wife of Charles Augustus Lindbergh).
- charles the great — ("Charles the Great") a.d. 742–814, king of the Franks 768–814; as Charles I, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 800–814.
- choanoflagellates — Plural form of choanoflagellate.
- circle the wagons — to take defensive action; prepare for an attack: from arranging a wagon train in a circular formation
- cleveland heights — city in NE Ohio: suburb of Cleveland: pop. 50,000
- counterchallenges — Plural form of counterchallenge.
- deadly nightshade — a poisonous Eurasian solanaceous plant, Atropa belladonna, having dull purple bell-shaped flowers and small very poisonous black berries
- dephlogisticating — Present participle of dephlogisticate.
- dipped headlights — road vehicle headlights which have been switched from the main to the lower beam
- english breakfast — An English breakfast is a breakfast consisting of cooked food such as bacon, eggs, sausages, and tomatoes. It also includes toast and tea or coffee.
- establishing shot — Cinema
- fee-paying school — a school which charges fees to parents of pupils
- flog a dead horse — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- general discharge — a discharge from military service of a person who has served honorably but who has not met all the conditions of an honorable discharge.
- gestatorial chair — a ceremonial chair on which the pope is carried
- glymphatic system — Anatomy. the system or process by which cerebrospinal fluid moves through channels formed by glia, cleansing the mammalian brain of harmful waste.
- go like hot cakes — to be sold very quickly or in large quantities
- golden hand-shake — a special incentive, as generous severance pay, given to an older employee as an inducement to elect early retirement.
- great vowel shift — a series of changes in the quality of the long vowels between Middle and Modern English as a result of which all were raised, while the high vowels (ē) and (o̅o̅), already at the upper limit, underwent breaking to become the diphthongs (ī) and (ou).
- ground angle shot — a photograph or film shot in which the lens is near the ground, usually pointing up somewhat
- guardhouse lawyer — a person in military service, especially an inmate of a guardhouse or brig, who is or claims to be an authority on military law, regulations, and soldiers' rights.
- have feelings for — to be emotionally or sexually attracted to
- high-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.5 and 1.5 per cent carbon
- 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.
- hypoglossal nerve — either one of the twelfth pair of cranial nerves, consisting of motor fibers that innervate the muscles of the tongue.
- indistinguishable — not distinguishable.
- integrated school — (in New Zealand) a private or church school that has joined the state school system
- 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.
- loggerhead shrike — a common, North American shrike, Lanius ludovicianus, gray above and white below with black wings, tail, and facial mask.
- lose the exchange — to lose a rook in return for a bishop or knight
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