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20-letter words containing o, h, i, g, n

  • 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
  • philoprogenitiveness — producing offspring, especially abundantly; prolific.
  • photogelatin process — collotype (def 1).
  • phthalocyanine green — a pigment used in painting, derived from chlorinated copper phthalocyanine and characterized chiefly by its intense green color and permanence.
  • physiologic jaundice — a transitory jaundice that affects some infants for the first few days after birth.
  • physiological saline — a salt solution that has the same osmotic pressure as that found in the blood or tissues
  • poor man's something — a (cheaper) substitute for something
  • 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.
  • psychological moment — the proper or critical time for achieving a desired result: She found the right psychological moment to make her request.
  • psychometric testing — the use of psychometric tests, often as a selection method
  • pyroligneous alcohol — methyl alcohol.
  • quaker meeting house — a place where Quakers gather for worship
  • quarantine anchorage — an anchorage for ships awaiting a pratique.
  • quick on the trigger — quick to fire a gun
  • ring of the nibelung — Richard Wagner's tetralogy of music dramas: Das Rheingold (completed 1869), Die Walküre (completed 1870), Siegfried (completed 1876), and Götterdämmerung (completed 1876): the cycle was first performed at Bayreuth, 1876.
  • ringing off the hook — If your phone is ringing off the hook, so many people are trying to telephone you that it is ringing constantly.
  • rough-winged swallow — either of two New World swallows of the genus Stelgidopteryx, having outer primary feathers with small barblike hooks on the margins.
  • royal british legion — an organization founded in 1921 to provide services and assistance for former members of the armed forces
  • scatter site housing — public housing, especially for low-income families, built throughout an urban area rather than being concentrated in a single neighborhood.
  • schrodinger equation — the wave equation of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. Also called Schrödinger wave equation. Compare wave equation (def 2).
  • serve a person right — to pay a person back, esp for wrongful or foolish treatment or behaviour
  • set the ball rolling — to open or initiate (an action, discussion, movement, etc)
  • sex change operation — a surgical operation designed to change a person's physical sexual characteristics to those of the opposite sex
  • shank of the evening — the latter part of the afternoon
  • shifting cultivation — a land-use system, esp in tropical Africa, in which a tract of land is cultivated until its fertility diminishes, when it is abandoned until this is restored naturally
  • shoulder-length hair — hair that reaches a person's shoulders
  • size-weight illusion — a standard sense illusion that a small object is heavier than a large object of the same weight
  • skating championship — a competition for ice-skating
  • slip through the net — If criminals slip through the net, they avoid being caught by the system or trap that was meant to catch them.
  • 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.
  • spatial technologies — (company)   Distributors of the ACIS solid modelling engine.
  • straight as an arrow — direct, unwavering
  • 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
  • take something amiss — to be annoyed or offended by something
  • tetrahydrogestrinone — a synthetic anabolic steroid. Formula: C21H28O2
  • the founding fathers — any of the men who were members of the U.S. Constituional Convention of 1787
  • the gnomes of zurich — Swiss bankers and financiers
  • the legal profession — the profession of law
  • the roaring twenties — a phrase used to describe the decade of the 1920s (esp in America), so called due to the social, artistic, and cultural dynamism of the period
  • the thinking process — thought; the activity of thinking
  • the thousand guineas — an annual horse race, restricted to fillies, run at Newmarket since 1814
  • the toronto blessing — a variety of emotional reactions such as laughing, weeping, and fainting, experienced by participants in a form of charismatic Christian worship
  • theory of everything — a theory intended to show that the electroweak, strong, and gravitational forces are components of a single quantized force.
  • there's no mistaking — You can say there is no mistaking something when you are emphasizing that you cannot fail to recognize or understand it.
  • there's nothing like — a general expression of praise
  • to be a warning shot — to be a warning
  • to bring up the rear — If a person or vehicle is bringing up the rear, they are the last person or vehicle in a moving line of them.
  • to give someone hell — If you say that someone gives you hell, you are emphasizing that they shout at you very angrily because of something you have done wrong.
  • 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.
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