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20-letter words containing s, h, o, g, l, e

  • pyroligneous alcohol — methyl alcohol.
  • 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
  • satellite photograph — a photograph taken by an artificial satellite from space
  • see the light of day — come into being
  • semiautobiographical — pertaining to or being a fictionalized account of an author's own life.
  • set the ball rolling — to open or initiate (an action, discussion, movement, etc)
  • 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
  • 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.
  • software methodology — (programming)   The study of how to navigate through each phase of the software process model (determining data, control, or uses hierarchies, partitioning functions, and allocating requirements) and how to represent phase products (structure charts, stimulus-response threads, and state transition diagrams).
  • spatial technologies — (company)   Distributors of the ACIS solid modelling engine.
  • st. george's channel — a channel between Wales and Ireland, connecting the Irish Sea and the Atlantic. 100 miles (160 km) long; 50–90 miles (81–145 km) wide.
  • state highway patrol — a state's road traffic police
  • the legal profession — the profession of law
  • 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 nothing like — a general expression of praise
  • to be at loggerheads — to be in conflict
  • to flog a dead horse — If you say that someone is flogging a dead horse, you mean that they are trying to achieve something impossible.
  • 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.
  • twilight of the gods — Götterdämmerung.
  • under/below strength — If an army or team is under strength or below strength, it does not have all the members that it needs or usually has.
  • webbing clothes moth — a small brown moth, Tineola biselliella, the larva of which feeds on woolens and spins a web when feeding.
  • with all one's might — If you do something with all your might, you do it using all your strength and energy.
  • working relationship — a relationship with a colleague, boss or employee
  • yu-shiang whole fish — /yoo-shyang hohl fish/ An obsolete name for the Greek character gamma (extended SAIL ASCII code 9, Unicode glyph 0x0263) which with a loop in its tail looks like a little fish swimming down the page. The term is actually the name of a Chinese dish in which a fish is cooked whole (not parsed) and covered with Yu-Shiang (or Yu-Hsiang) sauce. Used primarily by people on the MIT LISP Machine, which could display this character on the screen. Tends to elicit incredulity from people who hear about it second-hand.
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