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22-letter words containing g, o, t, h

  • there's nothing for it — there's no choice; there's no other course
  • through someone's eyes — If someone sees or considers something through your eyes, they consider it in the way that you do, from your point of view.
  • through thick and thin — having relatively great extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thin: a thick slice.
  • through-the-lens meter — a light meter employing a sensor cell located behind the taking lens.
  • time-lapse photography — the photographing on motion-picture film of a slow and continuous process, as the growth of a plant, at regular intervals, especially by exposing a single frame at a time, for projection at a higher speed.
  • to awaken to something — to become aware of something
  • to go off the deep end — to lose your temper; react angrily
  • to hate someone's guts — If you hate someone's guts, you dislike them very much indeed.
  • to have had a good war — to have made the most of the opportunities presented to one during wartime
  • to have the last laugh — If you say that you have the last laugh, you mean that you become successful at something so that people who criticize or oppose you look foolish.
  • to laugh your 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.
  • to make the front page — if something 'makes the front page' it is printed on the first page of a newspaper
  • to open the floodgates — If events open the floodgates to something, they make it possible for that thing to happen much more often or much more seriously than before.
  • to play to the gallery — If you play to the gallery, you do something in public in a way which you hope will impress people.
  • to ride roughshod over — If you say that someone is riding roughshod over a person or their views, you disapprove of them because they are using their power or authority to do what they want, completely ignoring that person's wishes.
  • university of michigan — (body, education)   A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. 70% of the University's students graduated in the top 10% of their high school class. 90% rank in the top 20% of their high school class. 60% of the students receive financial aid. The main Ann Arbor Campus lies in the Huron River valley, 40 miles west of Detroit. The campus boasts 2700 acres with 200 buildings, six million volumes in 23 libraries, nine museums, seven hospitals, hundreds of laboratories and institutes, and over 18000 microcomputers.
  • vibration white finger — a condition affecting workers using vibrating machinery, which causes damage to the blood vessels and nerves of the fingers and leads to a permanent loss of feeling
  • video graphics adapter — Video Graphics Array
  • video graphics adaptor — Video Graphics Array
  • voluntary manslaughter — the unlawful killing of one human being by another with malice aforethought but in mitigating circumstances
  • wardour street english — affectedly archaic speech or writing
  • washington court house — a city in SW Ohio.
  • with egg on one's face — made to look ridiculous
  • within someone's grasp — If you say that something is within someone's grasp, you mean that it is very likely that they will achieve it.
  • wrong end of the stick — a complete misunderstanding of a situation, explanation, etc
  • you can say that again — yes: emphatically
  • zero population growth — the maintenance of a population at a constant level by limiting the number of live births to that needed to replace the existing population.
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