20-letter words containing d, o, g, h

laugh one's head off — Phrases such as laugh your head off and scream your head off can be used to emphasize that someone is laughing or screaming a lot or very loudly.
light-emitting diode — LED.
look homeward, angel — a novel (1929) by Thomas Wolfe.
lord high chancellor — the highest judicial officer of the British crown: law adviser of the ministry, keeper of the great seal, presiding officer in the House of Lords, etc.
lou gehrig's disease — amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
magnetohydrodynamics — the branch of physics that deals with the motion of electrically conductive fluids, especially plasmas, in magnetic fields. Abbreviation: MHD.
mail exchange record — (messaging) (MX Record) A DNS resource record type that says which SMTP server handles electronic mail for a particular domain. E.g. the MX record foo.co.uk. 1054 IN MX 10 mail.foo.co.uk. means that mail for an address like "[email protected]" should be sent to "mail.foo.co.uk". There can be several servers for a domain. The "10" is a priority - the server with the lowest number will be tried first.
neighbourhood warden — a person employed by a local authority to patrol residential areas and deal with antisocial behaviour
new england theology — Calvinism as modified and interpreted by the descendants of the Puritans in New England, especially Jonathan Edwards, becoming the dominant theology there from about 1730 to 1880.
ode to a nightingale — a poem (1819) by Keats.
officer of the guard — an officer, acting under the officer of the day, who is responsible for the instruction, discipline, and performance of duty of the guard in a post, camp, or station. Abbreviation: OG, O.G.
old english sheepdog — one of an English breed of large working dogs having a long, shaggy, gray or blue-merle and white coat that hangs over the eyes, and a bobbed tail, originally developed to drive sheep and cattle.
on the drawing board — in the planning stage
paternal grandmother — the mother of someone's father
perpendicular gothic — the style of Gothic architecture in England during the 14th and 15th centuries, characterized by tracery having vertical lines, a four-centred arch, and fan vaulting
physiologic jaundice — a transitory jaundice that affects some infants for the first few days after birth.
posted write-through — A cache with a posted write-through policy (e.g. Intel 80386) delays the write-back to main memory until the bus is not in use.
poza rica de hidalgo — a city in N Veracruz, in E Mexico.
pride of the morning — light mist or precipitation observed at sea in the morning and regarded as indicating a fine day.
proof of the pudding — the true value or quality of something, as seen when it is experienced, tried, or put to use: The proof of the pudding for a business is what customers say about it.
pseudo-psychological — of or relating to psychology.
rough-legged buzzard — a buzzard, Buteo lagopus, of Europe, Asia, and North America, having feathers covering its legs
rough-winged swallow — either of two New World swallows of the genus Stelgidopteryx, having outer primary feathers with small barblike hooks on the margins.
schrodinger equation — the wave equation of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. Also called Schrödinger wave equation. Compare wave equation (def 2).
see the light of day — come into being
shoulder-length hair — hair that reaches a person's shoulders
software methodology — (programming) The study of how to navigate through each phase of the software process model (determining data, control, or uses hierarchies, partitioning functions, and allocating requirements) and how to represent phase products (structure charts, stimulus-response threads, and state transition diagrams).
sound-and-light show — a nighttime spectacle or performance, at which a building, historic site, etc., is illuminated and the historic significance is imparted to spectators by means of narration, sound effects, and music.
synchronized skating — the art or sport of teams of up to twenty skaters holding onto each other and moving in patterns in time to music
tetrahydrogestrinone — a synthetic anabolic steroid. Formula: C21H28O2
the day of judgement — a Christian term for the ending of the world
the founding fathers — any of the men who were members of the U.S. Constituional Convention of 1787
the grove of academe — the academic world
the thousand guineas — an annual horse race, restricted to fillies, run at Newmarket since 1814
thread language zero — (language) (TL0) The instruction set of the TAM (Threaded Abstract Machine), used to implement Id.
to be at loggerheads — to be in conflict
to be brought to bed — to give birth (to)
to flog a dead horse — If you say that someone is flogging a dead horse, you mean that they are trying to achieve something impossible.
to give sb their due — You can say 'to give him his due', or 'giving him his due' when you are admitting that there are some good things about someone, even though there are things that you do not like about them.
to look high and low — If you say that you looked high and low for something, you are emphasizing that you looked for it in every place that you could think of.
twilight of the gods — Götterdämmerung.
under/below strength — If an army or team is under strength or below strength, it does not have all the members that it needs or usually has.
video graphics array — (hardware) (VGA) A display standard for IBM PCs, with 640 x 480 pixels in 16 colours and a 4:3 aspect ratio. There is also a text mode with 720 x 400 pixels. IBM technical references define the *product name* of their original VGA display board as "Video Graphics Array", in contrast to the preceding boards, the "Color Graphics Adapter" (CGA) and "Enhanced Graphics Adapter" (EGA). See also Super Video Graphics Adapter.
white-flowered gourd — the hard-shelled fruit of any of various plants, especially those of Lagenaria siceraria (white-flowered gourd or bottle gourd) whose dried shell is used for bowls and other utensils, and Cucurbita pepo (yellow-flowered gourd) used ornamentally. Compare gourd family.
your marching orders — If you give someone their marching orders, you tell them that you no longer want or need them, for example as your employee or as your lover.

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