17-letter words containing s, u, g, e, t
- statutory meeting — company shareholders' discussion
- 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
- stuttgart disease — an often fatal intestinal disease in dogs, caused by any of several spirochetes of the genus Leptospira.
- subject catalogue — a catalogue with entries arranged by subject in a classified sequence
- 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.
- supply management — business purchasing
- teething troubles — Teething troubles are the same as teething problems.
- television lounge — a room in a hotel, guest house, etc where guests may watch television
- the last judgment — the occasion, after the resurrection of the dead at the end of the world, when, according to biblical tradition, God will decree the final destinies of all men according to the good and evil in their earthly lives
- the major leagues — the two main leagues of professional baseball clubs in the U.S., the National League and the American League
- the night's a pup — it's early yet
- the upper regions — the sky; heavens
- theodore sturgeon — Theodore (Hamilton) 1918–85, U.S. science-fiction writer.
- three-ring circus — a circus having three adjacent rings in which performances take place simultaneously.
- thuringian forest — a forested mountain region in central Germany: a resort area.
- till eulenspiegel — a legendary German peasant of the 14th century whose practical jokes yielded many stories.
- to argue the toss — If you say that someone argues the toss, you are criticizing them for continuing to argue for longer than is necessary about something that is not very important.
- to get psyched up — to prepare mentally
- to lose your grip — If you lose your grip, you become less efficient and less confident, and less able to deal with things.
- to the lighthouse — a novel (1927) by Virginia Woolf.
- top-security wing — a wing of a prison, mental hospital, etc that has a very high level of precautions against escape
- tungsten trioxide — a heavy, canary-yellow, water-insoluble powder, WO 3 , used in the manufacture of tungstates.
- turbosupercharger — (formerly) a turbocharger.
- 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)
- undistinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- unimaginativeness — the quality of being unimaginative
- unique id listing — (messaging) (UIDL) A system used by POP3 electronic mail servers to uniquely identify a mail message. Normally, a message is identified by its position in the list of messages but this will change when an earlier message is deleted. The UIDL is a fixed string of characters which is unique to the message. The UIDL of a message never changes and will never be reused, even when the message has been deleted from the user's mailbox.
- university degree — an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study
- unlisted building — a building that is not amongst those buildings officially recognized as having special historical or architectural interest and therefore protected from demolition or alteration
- urogenital system — the urinary tract and reproductive organs
- vinaigrette sauce — a tart sauce of oil, vinegar, and seasonings, sometimes including chopped capers, pickles, etc., usually served cold with salads.
- warehousing costs — the costs involved in storing goods in a warehouse
- washington square — a short novel (1881) by Henry James.
- working substance — a substance, usually a fluid, that undergoes changes in pressure, temperature, volume, or form as part of a process for accomplishing work.
- wuthering heights — a novel (1846) by Emily Brontë.