20-letter words containing r, i, n, g, s, h
- ring-necked pheasant — a gallinaceous Asian bird, Phasianus colchicus, having a white band around its neck, introduced into Great Britain, North America, and the Hawaiian Islands.
- 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
- sarcastic fringehead — any fish of the genus Neoclinus, characterized by a row of fleshy processes on the head, as N. blanchardi (sarcastic fringehead) of California coastal waters.
- 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
- shoulder-length hair — hair that reaches a person's shoulders
- 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.
- 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
- 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 garment industry — the manufacturing of items of clothing
- the gnomes of zurich — Swiss bankers and financiers
- the grass is greener — If you say the grass is greener somewhere else, you mean that other people's situations always seem better or more attractive than your own, but may not really be so.
- the greater antilles — a group of islands in the Caribbean, including Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico
- the high renaissance — the period from about the 1490s to the 1520s in painting, sculpture, and architecture in Europe, esp in Italy, when the Renaissance ideals were considered to have been attained through the mastery of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael
- 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 toronto blessing — a variety of emotional reactions such as laughing, weeping, and fainting, experienced by participants in a form of charismatic Christian worship
- 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 reach new heights — to become higher than ever before
- tubing head pressure — The tubing head pressure is the pressure on the tubing, which is measured at the wellhead.
- visual merchandising — Visual merchandising is the use of attractive displays and floor plans to increase customer numbers and sales volumes.
- warrensville heights — a city in NE Ohio.
- watering of the eyes — the formation of tears in the eyes
- weights and measures — units or standards of measurement
- with a grain of salt — to season with salt.
- working relationship — a relationship with a colleague, boss or employee
- writer to the signet — (in Scotland) a member of an ancient society of solicitors, now having the exclusive privilege of preparing crown writs
- your marching orders — If you give someone their marching orders, you tell them that you no longer want or need them, for example as your employee or as your lover.