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19-letter words containing h, u, g, o

  • acoustic gramophone — a device for reproducing the sounds stored on a record: now usually applied to the nearly obsolete type that uses a clockwork motor and acoustic horn
  • allegheny mountains — a mountain range in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia: part of the Appalachian system; rising from 600 m (2000 ft) to over 1440 m (4800 ft)
  • altazimuth mounting — a telescope mounting that allows motion of the telescope about a vertical axis (in azimuth) and a horizontal axis (in altitude)
  • battle of the bulge — (in World War II) the final major German counteroffensive in 1944 when the Allied forces were pushed back into NE Belgium; the Germans were repulsed by Jan 1945
  • beggar-my-neighbour — a card game in which one player tries to win all the cards of the other player
  • beta-naphthyl group — See under naphthyl.
  • bright young things — young, fun-loving, fashionable upper-class people, esp of the 1920s
  • bulbourethral gland — Cowper's gland
  • computed tomography — computerized axial tomography. Abbreviation: CT.
  • contradistinguished — Simple past tense and past participle of contradistinguish.
  • contradistinguishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contradistinguish.
  • desargues's theorem — the theorem that if two triangles are so related that the lines joining corresponding vertices meet in a point, then the extended corresponding lines of the two triangles meet in three points, all on the same line.
  • don't make me laugh — Some people reply to other people's comments or opinions by saying 'Don't make me laugh' when they disagree with them and think they are foolish or inaccurate.
  • double-helical gear — herringbone gear.
  • dry-bulk cargo ship — a ship that carries an unpackaged dry cargo such as coal or grain; bulk carrier
  • earthquake coverage — Earthquake coverage is insurance coverage for damage caused by earthquakes.
  • euclidean algorithm — Euclid's Algorithm
  • finger on the pulse — If you have your finger on the pulse of something, you know all the latest opinions or developments concerning it.
  • give your eye teeth — If you say that you would give your eye teeth for something, you mean that you want it very much and you would do anything to get it.
  • go down the tube(s) — If a business, economy, or institution goes down the tubes or goes down the tube, it fails or collapses completely.
  • go jump in the lake — a body of fresh or salt water of considerable size, surrounded by land.
  • go through the hoop — to be subjected to an ordeal
  • go through the roof — the external upper covering of a house or other building.
  • go under the hammer — to be offered for sale by an auctioneer
  • goes without saying — If something goes without saying, it is obvious.
  • goldbach conjecture — an unproved theorem that every even integer greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two prime numbers.
  • grand duke nicholas — of Cusa [kyoo-zuh] /ˈkyu zə/ (Show IPA), 1401–1464, German cardinal, mathematician, and philosopher. German Nikolaus von Cusa.
  • greenhouse whitefly — See under whitefly.
  • gulf of tehuantepec — an inlet of the Pacific on the south coast of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in S Mexico
  • hate someone's guts — to hate someone intensely
  • haute vulgarisation — vulgarization, or popularization, on a higher level, esp. as done by academics, scholars, etc.
  • hermitian conjugate — adjoint (def 2).
  • high blood pressure — elevation of the arterial blood pressure or a condition resulting from it; hypertension. Abbreviation: HBP.
  • housing association — A housing association is an organization which owns houses and helps its members to rent or buy them more cheaply than on the open market.
  • housing development — a group of houses or apartments, usually of the same size and design, often erected on a tract of land by one builder and controlled by one management.
  • human rights record — the facts that are known about the tendency of a country, regime, etc, to observe and protect human rights
  • humanist technology — (philosophy)   Technology centered around the interests, needs, and well-being of humans.
  • huntington's chorea — a hereditary disease of the central nervous system characterized by brain deterioration and loss of control over voluntary movements, the symptoms usually appearing in the fourth decade of life.
  • induction hardening — a process in which the outer surface of a metal component is rapidly heated by means of induced eddy currents. After rapid cooling the resulting phase transformations produce a hard wear-resistant skin
  • it serves you right — If you say it serves someone right when something unpleasant happens to them, you mean that it is their own fault and you have no sympathy for them.
  • junior bantamweight — a boxer weighing up to 115 pounds (51.7 kg), between flyweight and bantamweight.
  • junior middleweight — a boxer weighing up to 154 pounds (69.3 kg), between welterweight and middleweight.
  • junior welterweight — a boxer weighing up to 140 pounds (63 kg), between lightweight and welterweight.
  • knights of columbus — an international fraternal and benevolent organization of Roman Catholic men, founded in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1882.
  • languages of choice — C and Lisp. Nearly every hacker knows one of these, and most good ones are fluent in both. Smalltalk and Prolog are also popular in small but influential communities. There is also a rapidly dwindling category of older hackers with Fortran, or even assembler, as their language of choice. They often prefer to be known as Real Programmers, and other hackers consider them a bit odd (see "The Story of Mel"). Assembler is generally no longer considered interesting or appropriate for anything but HLL implementation, glue, and a few time-critical and hardware-specific uses in systems programs. Fortran occupies a shrinking niche in scientific programming. Most hackers tend to frown on languages like Pascal and Ada, which don't give them the near-total freedom considered necessary for hacking (see bondage-and-discipline language), and to regard everything even remotely connected with COBOL or other traditional card walloper languages as a total and unmitigated loss.
  • league championship — the competition to become league champions
  • let it all hang out — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
  • lightning conductor — A lightning conductor is a long thin piece of metal on top of a building that attracts lightning and allows it to reach the ground safely.
  • lucent technologies — (company, telecommunications, Unix)   The former systems and equipment portion of AT&T (including Bell Laboratories), split off in 1996.
  • lumholtz's kangaroo — boongary.

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