18-letter words containing h, o, t

to clear the decks — If you clear the decks, you get ready to start something new by finishing any work that has to be done or getting rid of any problems that are in the way.
to close the books — to balance accounts in order to prepare a statement or report
to come unstitched — to go wrong or awry
to cool your heels — If you are cooling your heels, someone is deliberately keeping you waiting, so that you get bored or impatient.
to cut the mustard — If someone does not cut the mustard, their work or their performance is not as good as it should be or as good as it is expected to be.
to find fault with — If you find fault with something or someone, you look for mistakes and complain about them.
to get wind of sth — If you get wind of something, you hear about it, especially when someone else did not want you to know about it.
to grit your teeth — If you grit your teeth, you make up your mind to carry on even if the situation is very difficult.
to gussy sb/sth up — to give (a person or thing) a smarter or more interesting appearance
to hold your peace — If you hold or keep your peace, you do not speak, even though there is something you want or ought to say.
to kick the bucket — If you say that someone has kicked the bucket, you mean that they have died.
to lay it on thick — If someone is laying it on thick or is laying it on, they are exaggerating a statement, experience, or emotion in order to try to impress people.
to learn the ropes — If you are learning the ropes, you are learning how a particular task or job is done.
to lick into shape — If you lick, knock, or whip someone or something into shape, you use whatever methods are necessary to change or improve them so that they are in the condition that you want them to be in.
to meet your match — If you meet your match, you find that you are competing or fighting against someone who you cannot beat because they are as good as you, or better than you.
to open your heart — If you open your heart or pour out your heart to someone, you tell them your most private thoughts and feelings.
to pick and choose — If you pick and choose, you carefully choose only things that you really want and reject the others.
to plough a furrow — If you say that someone ploughs a particular furrow or ploughs their own furrow, you mean that their activities or interests are different or isolated from those of other people.
to raise the alarm — If you raise the alarm or sound the alarm, you warn people of danger.
to spill the beans — If you spill the beans, you tell someone something that people have been trying to keep secret.
to stop at nothing — If you say that someone will stop at nothing to get something, you are emphasizing that they are willing to do things that are extreme, wrong, or dangerous in order to get it.
to sweep the board — If someone sweeps the board in a competition or election, they win nearly everything that it is possible to win.
to take the mickey — If you take the mickey out of someone or something, you make fun of them, usually in an unkind way.
to take the plunge — If you take the plunge, you decide to do something that you consider difficult or risky.
to the manner born — a way of doing, being done, or happening; mode of action, occurrence, etc.: I don't like the manner in which he complained.
to twist the knife — If you twist the knife or if you turn the knife in someone's wound, you do or say something to make an unpleasant situation they are in even more unpleasant.
to watch your step — If someone tells you to watch your step, they are warning you to be careful about how you behave or what you say so that you do not get into trouble.
too clever by half — If someone is too clever by half, they are very clever and they show their cleverness in a way that annoys other people.
touch-in-goal line — either of the two touchlines at each end of the field between the goal line and the dead-ball line.
townsend avalanche — avalanche (def 3).
toyotomi hideyoshi — Toyotomi [taw-yaw-taw-mee] /ˈtɔ yɔˈtɔ mi/ (Show IPA), 1536–98, Japanese general and statesman: prime minister and dictator of Japan 1585–98.
transit theodolite — a theodolite having a telescope that can be transited.
transmission shaft — a shaft that rotates transmitting motion from the engine to the differential gear
triphosphoric acid — the hypothetical acid H 5 P 3 O 10 , known chiefly by its salts.
turn on one's heel — to turn around abruptly
turn one's hand to — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
two-chamber system — the system of having two parliamentary chambers, as the House of Lords and the House of Commons in the United Kingdom
under one's breath — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
under the aegis of — guided or protected by
under the jackboot — If a country or group of people is under the jackboot, they are suffering because the government is cruel and undemocratic.
unification church — a religious sect that combines elements of Protestantism and Buddhism, founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon in 1954: many of its members live in communes sponsored by the sect.
up to the eyeballs — You use up to the eyeballs to emphasize that someone is in an undesirable state to a very great degree.
upper palaeolithic — the latest of the three periods of the Palaeolithic, beginning about 40 000 bc and ending, in Europe, about 12 000 bc: characterized by the emergence of modern man, Homo sapiens
ur of the chaldees — the city where Abraham was born, sometimes identified with the Sumerian city of Ur. Gen. 11:28, 31; 15:7; Neh. 9:7.
urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
vectorcardiography — a method of determining the direction and magnitude of the electrical forces of the heart.
warehouse capacity — the amount of storage space in a warehouse
watchdog committee — a committee responsible for monitoring standards of behaviour
water of hydration — the portion of a hydrate that is represented as, or can be expelled as, water: now usually regarded as being in true molecular combination with the other atoms of the compound, and not existing in the compound as water.
water on the brain — hydrocephalus.

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