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20-letter words containing h, u, n, g, r

  • after-hours drinking — drinking in a pub after its legal closing time
  • algorithmic language — ALGOL 60
  • alpha-naphthyl group — naphthyl group (def 1).
  • angoumois grain moth — a gelechiid moth, Sitotroga cerealella, the larvae of which feed on stored corn and other grains.
  • beggar-your-neighbor — a children's card game for two, played with 52 cards, that is won when a player captures all of the cards.
  • branch target buffer — (processor)   (BTB) A register used to store the predicted destination of a branch in a processor using branch prediction?
  • bring down the house — to receive enthusiastic applause from the audience
  • bring the house down — to win great applause
  • casing head pressure — The casing head pressure is the pressure on the casing, which is measured at the wellhead.
  • child support agency — the British government agency concerned with the welfare of children
  • contradistinguishing — Present participle of contradistinguish.
  • cut the gordian knot — to find a quick, bold solution for a perplexing problem
  • diamond in the rough — a diamond in its natural state
  • differential housing — the casing that houses the differential of a motor vehicle
  • eight queens problem — eight queens puzzle
  • elizabeth of hungary — Saint. 1207–31, Hungarian princess who devoted herself to charity and asceticism. Feast day: Nov 17 and 19
  • freefall parachuting — a variety of parachuting in which the jumper manoeuvres in free fall before opening the parachute
  • general headquarters — the headquarters of the commanding officer of a large military force. Abbreviation: GHQ, G.H.Q.
  • geoffrey of monmouth — 1100?–1154, English chronicler.
  • gill-over-the-ground — ground ivy.
  • grand unified theory — a possible future quantum field theory that would encompass both the electroweak theory and quantum chromodynamics. Abbreviation: GUT.
  • greenwich hour angle — hour angle measured from the meridian of Greenwich, England.
  • guarded horn clauses — (language)   (GHC) A parallel dialect of Prolog by K. Ueda in which each clause has a guard. GHC is similar to Parlog. When several clauses match a goal, their guards are evaluated in parallel and the first clause whose guard is found to be true is used and others are rejected. It uses committed-choice nondeterminism. See also FGHC, KL1.
  • happy hunting ground — the North American Indian heaven, conceived of as a paradise of hunting and feasting for warriors and hunters.
  • hard gelatin capsule — A hard gelatin capsule is a type of capsule that is usually used to contain medicine in the form of dry powder or very small pellets.
  • hate a person's guts — to dislike a person very strongly
  • hierarchical routing — The complex problem of routing on large networks can be simplified by breaking a network into a hierarchy of smaller networks, where each level is responsible for its own routing. The Internet has, basically, three levels: the backbones, the mid-levels, and the stub networks. The backbones know how to route between the mid-levels, the mid-levels know how to route between the sites, and each site (being an autonomous system) knows how to route internally. See also Exterior Gateway Protocol, Interior Gateway Protocol, transit network.
  • how are you keeping? — how are you?
  • human genome project — a federally funded U.S. scientific project to identify both the genes and the entire sequence of DNA base pairs that make up the human genome.
  • human growth hormone — somatotropin. Abbreviation: hGH.
  • hungarian bromegrass — a pasture grass, Bromus inermis, native to Europe, having smooth blades.
  • hydraulic fracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • john o'groat's house — the northern tip of Scotland, near Duncansby Head, NE Caithness, traditionally thought of as the northernmost point of Britain: from Land's End to John o'Groat's House.
  • junior featherweight — a boxer weighing up to 122 pounds (54.9 kg), between bantamweight and featherweight.
  • linguistic geography — dialect geography.
  • logarithmic function — a function defined by y = log bx, especially when the base, b, is equal to e, the base of natural logarithms.
  • lymphogranulomatosis — widespread infectious granuloma of the lymphatic system.
  • malpighian corpuscle — Also called kidney corpuscle, Malpighian body. the structure at the beginning of a vertebrate nephron, consisting of a glomerulus and its surrounding Bowman's capsule.
  • measure one's length — to fall, lie, or be thrown down at full length
  • mecklenburg-schwerin — a former state in NE Germany, formed in 1934 from two states (Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz)
  • metric hundredweight — a unit of weight equivalent to 50 kilograms.
  • neighbourhood warden — a person employed by a local authority to patrol residential areas and deal with antisocial behaviour
  • neurophysiologically — In terms of, or with regard to, neurophysiology.
  • neuropsychologically — In terms of or by means of neuropsychology.
  • orthognathic surgery — the surgical correction of deformities or malpositions of the jaw.
  • pay through the nose — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • public lending right — (in Britain) an act of Parliament that directs compensation to an author for the library loan of his or her book.
  • pyroligneous alcohol — methyl alcohol.

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