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20-letter words containing s, h, o, g, u

  • after-hours drinking — drinking in a pub after its legal closing time
  • angoumois grain moth — a gelechiid moth, Sitotroga cerealella, the larvae of which feed on stored corn and other grains.
  • be shot through with — If something is shot through with an element or feature, it contains a lot of that element or feature.
  • bigmouth buffalofish — a buffalofish, Ictiobus cyprinellus, found in central North America, characterized by a large mouth.
  • bring down the house — to receive enthusiastic applause from the audience
  • bring the house down — to win great applause
  • child support agency — the British government agency concerned with the welfare of children
  • common lodging house — a cheap lodging house
  • contradistinguishing — Present participle of contradistinguish.
  • differential housing — the casing that houses the differential of a motor vehicle
  • eight queens problem — eight queens puzzle
  • freight pass-through — a special allowance or discounted price given a bookseller or bookstore by a publishing house for paying the freight charge on a shipment of books ordered: so called because the shipping charge is passed on to the consumer by an increase in the suggested retail price for each book. Abbreviation: FPT.
  • full to the gunwales — completely full; full to overflowing
  • get one's hackles up — to become tense with anger; bristle
  • glucosamine sulphate — a compound used in some herbal remedies and dietary supplements, esp to strengthen joint cartilage
  • grievous bodily harm — law: serious injury
  • 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.
  • hang up one's spikes — to retire, as from a professional sport
  • hate a person's guts — to dislike a person very strongly
  • high-density housing — housing with a higher population density than the average, typically blocks of flats, and tower blocks
  • house of assignation — a brothel.
  • how about something? — what is your wish, opinion, or information concerning something (or someone)?
  • hungarian bromegrass — a pasture grass, Bromus inermis, native to Europe, having smooth blades.
  • huntington's disease — 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.
  • it just goes to show — If you say it just goes to show or it just shows that something is the case, you mean that what you have just said or experienced demonstrates that it is the case.
  • 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.
  • kingston upon thames — a borough of Greater London, England.
  • laugh one's head off — Phrases such as laugh your head off and scream your head off can be used to emphasize that someone is laughing or screaming a lot or very loudly.
  • lighthouse coffeepot — a coffeepot of the late 17th and 18th centuries, having a tapering, circular body with a domed lid.
  • linguistic geography — dialect geography.
  • liturgy of the hours — a revision (promulgated in 1970) of the arrangement and texts of the Divine Office
  • lou gehrig's disease — amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • part way through sth — in the course of something; in the middle of something
  • 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.
  • physiologic jaundice — a transitory jaundice that affects some infants for the first few days after birth.
  • posted write-through — A cache with a posted write-through policy (e.g. Intel 80386) delays the write-back to main memory until the bus is not in use.
  • pseudo-psychological — of or relating to psychology.
  • pyroligneous alcohol — methyl alcohol.
  • quaker meeting house — a place where Quakers gather for worship
  • rough-winged swallow — either of two New World swallows of the genus Stelgidopteryx, having outer primary feathers with small barblike hooks on the margins.
  • 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).
  • semiautobiographical — pertaining to or being a fictionalized account of an author's own life.
  • 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

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