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20-letter words containing t, e, p, h, i, g

  • public lending right — (in Britain) an act of Parliament that directs compensation to an author for the library loan of his or her book.
  • 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.
  • satellite photograph — a photograph taken by an artificial satellite from space
  • semiautobiographical — pertaining to or being a fictionalized account of an author's own life.
  • serve a person right — to pay a person back, esp for wrongful or foolish treatment or behaviour
  • sex change operation — a surgical operation designed to change a person's physical sexual characteristics to those of the opposite sex
  • 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.
  • spatial technologies — (company)   Distributors of the ACIS solid modelling engine.
  • state highway patrol — a state's road traffic police
  • the (great) pyramids — the three large pyramids at Gîza, Egypt: the largest is the Pyramid of Khufu
  • the hearing impaired — people whose hearing is partially defective
  • the legal profession — the profession of law
  • the thinking process — thought; the activity of thinking
  • 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 up the ghost — If someone gives up the ghost, they stop trying to do something because they no longer believe they can do it successfully. If a machine gives up the ghost, it stops working.
  • triple witching hour — the last hour of trading on the New York Stock Exchange on the four Fridays each year when stock options, stock index futures, and options on such futures simultaneously expire: regarded as a time of extreme volatility in trading.
  • tubing head pressure — The tubing head pressure is the pressure on the tubing, which is measured at the wellhead.
  • working relationship — a relationship with a colleague, boss or employee
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