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22-letter words containing s, h, i, l, n, g

  • school crossing patrol — the official name for lollipop man or lady
  • self-sustaining growth — economic growth that maintains itself without intervention
  • silicon graphics, inc. — (company)   (SGI) Manufacturer of workstations and software for graphics and image processing. SGI was founded by Dr. James H. Clark, who left some time before May 1994 to head Mosaic Communications Corporation. Quarterly sales $433M, profits $44M (Aug 1994).
  • slip something over on — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
  • special drawing rights — the reserve assets of the International Monetary Fund on which member nations may draw in proportion to their contribution to the Fund
  • spherical trigonometry — the branch of trigonometry that deals with spherical triangles.
  • start the ball rolling — to open or initiate (an action, discussion, movement, etc)
  • straining at the leash — eagerly impatient to begin something
  • synchronic linguistics — the branch of linguistics that analyzes the structure of a language or languages as static, at a given point in their history
  • the chattering classes — the educated sections of society, considered as enjoying discussion of political, social, and cultural issues
  • the edinburgh festival — an arts festival held in Edinburgh in August
  • the-leaning-tower-pisa — a round, marble campanile in Pisa, Italy, begun in 1174 and now 17 feet (5.2 meters) out of the perpendicular in its height of 179 feet (54 meters).
  • thermal imaging system — equipment providing images of a target, or of a person or thing under examination
  • villingen-schwenningen — a city in Baden-Württemberg in SW Germany, on the E edge of the Black Forest.
  • wardour street english — affectedly archaic speech or writing
  • welsh springer spaniel — one of a Welsh breed of springer spaniels having a red and white coat.
  • with 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
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