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

  • self-perpetuating — continuing oneself in office, rank, etc., beyond the normal limit.
  • senior management — the most senior staff of an organization or business, including the heads of various divisions or departments led by the chief executive
  • sensitivity group — a group of persons participating in sensitivity training.
  • sentencing circle — a method of dispensing justice amongst native Canadian peoples involving discussion between offenders, victims, and members of the community
  • separating funnel — a large funnel having a tap in its output tube, used to separate immiscible liquids
  • separation energy — binding energy (def 1).
  • sexual generation — the gametophyte generation in the alternation of generations in plants that produces a zygote from male and female gametes.
  • sheltered housing — accommodation designed esp for the elderly or infirm consisting of a group of individual premises, often with some shared facilities and a caretaker
  • shipping articles — articles of agreement.
  • shipping industry — the industry concerned with transporting freight, esp by ship
  • shoestring tackle — a tackle made around the ankles of the ball carrier.
  • shooting practice — practice in shooting for soldiers or other people who shoot guns
  • shopping precinct — pedestrian area with shops
  • sign in (or out) — to sign a register on arrival (or departure)
  • sign of the cross — a movement of the hand to indicate a cross, as from forehead to breast and left shoulder to right or, in the Eastern Orthodox Church, from right shoulder to left.
  • significant other — Sociology. a person, as a parent or peer, who has great influence on one's behavior and self-esteem.
  • similar triangles — triangles that are similar due to the equality of corresponding angles and the proportional similarity of the corresponding sides
  • singer-songwriter — A singer-songwriter is someone who writes and performs their own songs, especially popular songs.
  • single-track road — a road that is only wide enough for one vehicle
  • sleeping quarters — the rooms where people sleep in a large building or complex or on a boat etc
  • smoothing circuit — a circuit used to remove ripple from the output of a direct current power supply
  • social networking — the development of social and professional contacts; the sharing of information and services among people with a common interest.
  • social notworking — the practice of spending time unproductively on social networking websites, esp when one should be working
  • software engineer — a person who writes computer programs
  • solicitor general — a law officer who maintains the rights of the state in suits affecting the public interest, next in rank to the attorney general.
  • south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • south frigid zone — the part of the earth's surface between the Antarctic Circle and the South Pole.
  • 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.
  • spiritual healing — faith healing
  • split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
  • stationary engine — an engine mounted in a fixed position, as one used for driving generators, compressors, etc.
  • statutory meeting — company shareholders' discussion
  • steamboat springs — a town in NW Colorado: ski resort.
  • steering geometry — Steering geometry is the geometric arrangement of the parts of a steering system, and the value of the lengths and angles within it.
  • stolen generation — Aboriginal children removed from their families and placed in institutions or fostered by White families between 1910 and 1970
  • strange interlude — a play (1928) by Eugene O'Neill.
  • stretching course — (in brickwork) a course of stretchers.
  • string instrument — a musical instrument that has strings, such as the violin or cello
  • substantive right — a right, as life, liberty, or property, recognized for its own sake and as part of the natural legal order of society.
  • superregeneration — regeneration in which a signal is alternately amplified and quenched at a frequency slightly above the audible range to achieve high sensitivity with a single tube.
  • 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
  • terrorist bombing — the bombing of a place carried out in order to achieve some goal
  • the lower regions — hell
  • 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.
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