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20-letter words containing d, o, g, l, a, t

  • mail-order catalogue — a catalogue of goods you can buy from a particular company by mail order
  • margaret of scotland — Saint. 1045–93, queen consort of Malcolm III of Scotland. Her piety and benefactions to the church led to her canonization (1250). Feast days: June 10, Nov 16
  • monosodium glutamate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 5 H 8 NNaO 4 ⋅H 2 O, used to intensify the flavor of foods.
  • 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.
  • nonrepeating decimal — a decimal representation of any irrational number, having the property that no sequence of digits is repeated ad infinitum.
  • nostalgie de la boue — a desire for or attraction to crudity, vulgarity, depravity, etc.
  • ode to a nightingale — a poem (1819) by Keats.
  • operator overloading — overloading
  • optical mark reading — the reading of marks by an optical device whereby the information can be stored in machine-readable form
  • oxyacetylene welding — welding using an oxyacetylene burner
  • 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
  • procedural agreement — regulations agreed between the parties to collective bargaining, defining the bargaining units, bargaining scope, procedures for collective bargaining, and the facilities to be provided to trade union representatives
  • radial triangulation — triangulation based upon lines radiating from the center of each of two overlapping photographs to certain objects appearing on each photograph.
  • regional development — aid-giving to poorer areas or countries
  • ring wall foundation — A ring wall foundation is a base made of concrete, used to put large tanks on.
  • 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.
  • stained glass window — a window made of coloured glass, often showing religious pictures and usually seen in churches
  • 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 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 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.
  • traditional marriage — Anthropology. the primary established form of marriage recognized in a given country or religious or social group at a given time: In that culture, traditional marriage requires the families of the future bride and groom to engage in ritual visits and exchange gifts.
  • trailing vortex drag — drag arising from vortices that occur behind a body moving through a gas or liquid
  • transcendental logic — (in Kantian epistemology) the study of the mind with reference to its perceptions of external objects and to the objective truth of such perceptions.
  • walton and weybridge — a city in Surrey, SE England: a London suburb.
  • wide-angle converter — a person or thing that converts.
  • working-capital fund — a fund established to finance operating activities in an industrial enterprise.
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