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19-letter words containing h, o, d, i, n, g

  • psychoendocrinology — the study of the relationship between the endocrine system and various symptoms or types of mental illness.
  • regular icosahedron — an icosahedron in which each of the faces is an equilateral triangle
  • rhodesian ridgeback — a large short-haired breed of dog characterized by a ridge of hair growing along the back in the opposite direction to the rest of the coat. It was originally a hunting dog from South Africa
  • right-eyed flounder — any of several flatfishes of the family Pleuronectidae, having both eyes on the right side of the head.
  • run into the ground — to do too long or too often; overdo
  • run-length encoding — A kind of compression algorithm which replaces sequences ("runs") of consecutive repeated characters (or other units of data) with a single character and the length of the run. This can either be applied to all input characters, including runs of length one, or a special character can be used to introduce a run-length encoded group. The longer and more frequent the runs are, the greater the compression that will be achieved. This technique is particularly useful for encoding black and white images where the data units would be single bit pixels.
  • sandwich generation — the generation of people still raising their children while having to care for their aging parents.
  • sidereal hour angle — the angle, measured westward through 360°, between the hour circle passing through the vernal equinox and the hour circle of a celestial body.
  • straight and narrow — the way of virtuous or proper conduct: After his release from prison, he resolved to follow the straight and narrow.
  • straightforwardness — going or directed straight ahead: a straightforward gaze.
  • the golden triangle — an opium-producing area of SE Asia, comprising parts of Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand
  • three-point landing — an aircraft landing in which the two wheels of the main landing gear and the tail or nose wheel touch the ground simultaneously.
  • to change your mind — If you change your mind, or if someone or something changes your mind, you change a decision you have made or an opinion that you had.
  • to do the drying-up — to dry dishes, cups, glasses, etc after they have been washed
  • under the spotlight — If someone or something comes under the spotlight, they are thoroughly examined, especially by journalists and the public.
  • white-fronted goose — a grayish-brown wild goose, Anser albifrons, of Eurasia and western North America, having a white patch on the front of the face.
  • white-handed gibbon — a gibbon, Hylobates lar, inhabiting Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, and northern Sumatra, varying from black to light buff in color, and having white hands and feet: an endangered species.
  • white-winged scoter — a blackish North American duck, Melanitta deglandi, having a white patch on each wing.
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