17-letter words containing t, i, l, n, g
- shit on a shingle — creamed chipped beef or ground beef in a sauce, served on toast.
- shoestring tackle — a tackle made around the ankles of the ball carrier.
- similar triangles — triangles that are similar due to the equality of corresponding angles and the proportional similarity of the corresponding sides
- single supplement — A single supplement is an additional sum of money that a hotel charges for one person to stay in a room meant for two people.
- single-sheet feed — a mechanism for feeding or taking single sheets of paper into a printer
- single-track road — a road that is only wide enough for one vehicle
- sleeping position — the position that you sleep in
- sleeping quarters — the rooms where people sleep in a large building or complex or on a boat etc
- social accounting — the analysis of the economy by sectors leading to the calculation and publication of economic statistics, such as gross national product and national income
- 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
- 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.
- southern triangle — the constellation Triangulum Australe.
- spinal meningitis — infection of spinal membrane
- spiritual healing — faith healing
- split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
- sting in the tail — an unexpected and unpleasant ending
- 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.
- swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
- synthetic biology — the application of computer science techniques to create artificial biological systems
- taiping rebellion — a movement of religious mysticism and agrarian unrest in China between 1850 and 1864 which weakened the Manchu dynasty but was eventually suppressed with foreign aid
- tangential motion — the component of the linear motion of a star with respect to the sun, measured along a line perpendicular to its line of sight and expressed in miles or kilometers per second.
- teaching hospital — a hospital associated with a medical college and offering clinical and other facilities to those in various areas of medical study, as students, interns, and residents.
- technical college — school of further and vocational education
- technical drawing — the study and practice, esp as a subject taught in school, of the basic techniques of draughtsmanship, as employed in mechanical drawing, architecture, etc
- 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.
- telecommunicating — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
- telephone banking — a facility enabling customers to make use of banking services, such as oral payment instructions, account movements, raising loans, etc, over the telephone rather than by personal visit
- television lounge — a room in a hotel, guest house, etc where guests may watch television
- television rights — the rights to televise something, such as a sporting event
- the enlightenment — an 18th-century philosophical movement stressing the importance of reason and the critical reappraisal of existing ideas and social institutions
- the lower regions — hell
- the neolithic age — the last part of the Stone Age, where metal tools became widespread
- the whole boiling — the whole lot
- thermocoagulation — the coagulation of tissue by heat-producing high-frequency electric currents, used therapeutically to remove small growths or to create specific lesions in the brain.
- tibetan highlands — Tibet, Plateau of.
- till eulenspiegel — a legendary German peasant of the 14th century whose practical jokes yielded many stories.
- traditional logic — formal logic based on syllogistic formulas, especially as developed by Aristotle.
- trailing geranium — an ivy-leaved variety of geranium, Pelargonium peltatum
- travelling people — Gypsies or other itinerant people: a term used esp by such people of themselves
- triangular matrix — a square matrix in which either all the entries above the principal diagonal, or all the entries below the principal diagonal, are zero.
- trifoliate orange — a spiny, Chinese orange tree, Poncirus trifoliata, used as a stock in grafting and for hedges.
- 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.
- undistinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- unintelligibility — the quality of being unintelligible
- 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.