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20-letter words containing g, l, o, t

  • 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
  • thread language zero — (language)   (TL0) The instruction set of the TAM (Threaded Abstract Machine), used to implement Id.
  • to be at loggerheads — to be in conflict
  • to be walking on air — If you say that you are walking on air or floating on air, you mean that you feel extremely happy about something.
  • 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.
  • to go the extra mile — If you say that someone is willing to go the extra mile, you mean that they are willing to make a special effort to do or achieve something.
  • 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.
  • to tighten your belt — If you have to tighten your belt, you have to spend less money and manage without things because you have less money than you used to have.
  • traditional marriage — Anthropology. the primary established form of marriage recognized in a given country or religious or social group at a given time: In that culture, traditional marriage requires the families of the future bride and groom to engage in ritual visits and exchange gifts.
  • trailing vortex drag — drag arising from vortices that occur behind a body moving through a gas or liquid
  • transcendental logic — (in Kantian epistemology) the study of the mind with reference to its perceptions of external objects and to the objective truth of such perceptions.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • unemployment figures — statistics relating to the number of people who are out of work
  • unique selling point — a feature of a product that is emphasized in advertising material and sales presentations
  • upmail tricia prolog — ftp://ftp.csd.uu.se/pub/Tricia/README. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • vertical integration — the joining together of all companies or firms involved in manufacturing a product into one company or firm
  • walk-in refrigerator — a refrigerated storage room, as at a butcher shop.
  • walton and weybridge — a city in Surrey, SE England: a London suburb.
  • webbing clothes moth — a small brown moth, Tineola biselliella, the larva of which feeds on woolens and spins a web when feeding.
  • white-flowered gourd — the hard-shelled fruit of any of various plants, especially those of Lagenaria siceraria (white-flowered gourd or bottle gourd) whose dried shell is used for bowls and other utensils, and Cucurbita pepo (yellow-flowered gourd) used ornamentally. Compare gourd family.
  • wide-angle converter — a person or thing that converts.
  • winter olympic games — an international contest of winter sports, esp skiing, held every four years
  • with a grain of salt — to season with salt.
  • 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
  • working-capital fund — a fund established to finance operating activities in an industrial enterprise.
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