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23-letter words containing m, e, i, t, h

  • short-billed marsh wren — sedge wren.
  • site catchment analysis — the examination by survey, excavation, maps, and graphs of a contained area to evaluate the productivity of the resources customarily exploited by the inhabitants of a settlement, especially a prehistoric one.
  • sodium tripolyphosphate — a white powder, Na 5 P 3 O 1 0 , used as a water softener, sequestering agent, and food additive.
  • someone's night to howl — someone's time for unrestrained pleasure
  • the chamber of deputies — the lower legislative assembly in some parliaments
  • the information highway — the internet
  • the kingdom of lorraine — an early medieval kingdom on the Meuse, Moselle, and Rhine rivers: later a duchy
  • the metropolitan police — the police organization that is responsible for Greater London, excluding the City of London
  • the scottish parliament — the devolved national legislature of Scotland, located in Edinburgh
  • the taming of the shrew — a comedy (1594?) by Shakespeare.
  • there is no holding him — he is so spirited or resolute that he cannot be restrained
  • thompson submachine gun — a portable, .45-caliber, automatic weapon designed to be fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • till the cows come home — the mature female of a bovine animal, especially of the genus Bos.
  • to pass the time of day — If you pass the time of day with someone, you have a short friendly conversation with them.
  • trans-new guinea phylum — the largest grouping of the non-Austronesian languages of Papua and New Guinea and the surrounding regions
  • under the circumstances — a condition, detail, part, or attribute, with respect to time, place, manner,agent, etc., that accompanies, determines, or modifies a fact or event; a modifying or influencing factor: Do not judge his behavior without considering every circumstance.
  • united methodist church — the largest denomination of the Methodist church in the U.S., formed in 1939 from the merger of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and the Methodist Protestant Church, with the addition in 1968 of the Evangelical United Brethren.
  • what makes someone tick — the basic drive or motivation of a person
  • when it comes (down) to — You can use the expression when it comes to or when it comes down to in order to introduce a new topic or a new aspect of a topic that you are talking about.
  • whet someone's appetite — If someone or something whets your appetite for a particular thing, they increase your desire to have it or know about it, especially by giving you an idea of what it is like.
  • you can't go home again — a novel (1940) by Thomas Wolfe.
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