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17-letter words containing t, r, u, g, o

  • sensitivity group — a group of persons participating in sensitivity training.
  • 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
  • sign in (or out) — to sign a register on arrival (or departure)
  • smoothing circuit — a circuit used to remove ripple from the output of a direct current power supply
  • sound spectrogram — a graphic representation, produced by a sound spectrograph, of the frequency, intensity, duration, and variation with time of the resonance of a sound or series of sounds.
  • 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.
  • stand your ground — relating to or denoting a legal principle or law that eliminates the duty to retreat by allowing, as a first response, self-defense by deadly force: We’re proud to represent Florida, the first stand your ground state.
  • statutory meeting — company shareholders' discussion
  • stretching course — (in brickwork) a course of stretchers.
  • 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.
  • teething troubles — Teething troubles are the same as teething problems.
  • the bulldog breed — people who fought in either of the World Wars
  • the major leagues — the two main leagues of professional baseball clubs in the U.S., the National League and the American League
  • the upper regions — the sky; heavens
  • the witching hour — the hour at which witches are supposed to appear, usually midnight
  • theodore sturgeon — Theodore (Hamilton) 1918–85, U.S. science-fiction writer.
  • 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.
  • thought-provoking — If something such as a book or a film is thought-provoking, it contains interesting ideas that make people think seriously.
  • through the floor — If you say that prices or sales have fallen through the floor, you mean that they have suddenly decreased.
  • thuringian forest — a forested mountain region in central Germany: a resort area.
  • 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 drag your feet — If you drag your feet or drag your heels, you delay doing something or do it very slowly because you do not want to do it.
  • to lose your grip — If you lose your grip, you become less efficient and less confident, and less able to deal with things.
  • tongue-and-groove — the technique of making a joint between two boards by means of a tongue along the edge of one board that fits into a groove along the edge of the other board
  • top-security wing — a wing of a prison, mental hospital, etc that has a very high level of precautions against escape
  • topological group — a set that is a group and a topological space and for which the group operation and the map of an element to its inverse are continuous functions.
  • tungsten trioxide — a heavy, canary-yellow, water-insoluble powder, WO 3 , used in the manufacture of tungstates.
  • turbinado (sugar) — a partially refined, granulated, pale-brown sugar obtained by washing raw sugar in a centrifuge until most of the molasses is removed
  • turbosupercharger — (formerly) a turbocharger.
  • turkish towelling — woven cloth which is used to make towels, wash cloths, etc
  • 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)
  • urogenital system — the urinary tract and reproductive organs
  • voltage regulator — a device that controls or maintains the voltage of an electrical circuit. Abbreviation: VR.
  • warehousing costs — the costs involved in storing goods in a warehouse
  • washington square — a short novel (1881) by Henry James.
  • without regard to — with no concern for
  • working substance — a substance, usually a fluid, that undergoes changes in pressure, temperature, volume, or form as part of a process for accomplishing work.
  • wrangell-mountain — Mount, an active volcano in SE Alaska, in the Wrangell Mountains. 14,006 feet (4269 meters).
  • you're telling me — I know, I'm well aware
  • youth programming — the creation and scheduling of television programmes specifically aimed at young people
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