18-letter words containing n, i, g, h, t, o
- there's no telling — You use there's no telling to introduce a statement when you want to say that it is impossible to know what will happen in a situation.
- thin on the ground — If people or things of a particular kind are thin on the ground, there are very few of them.
- thought experiment — Physics. a demonstration or calculation that is based on the postulates of a theory, as relativity, and that demonstrates or clarifies the consequences of the postulates.
- tighten one's belt — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
- to a grinding halt — If you describe a bad situation as grinding, you mean it never gets better, changes, or ends.
- 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 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.
- touch-in-goal line — either of the two touchlines at each end of the field between the goal line and the dead-ball line.
- under the aegis of — guided or protected by
- urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
- westinghouse brake — a railroad air brake operated by compressed air.
- with flying colors — with flying colors, with an overwhelming victory, triumph, or success: He passed the test with flying colors.
- without obligation — In advertisements, if a product or a service is available without obligation, you do not have to pay for that product or service until you have tried it and are satisfied with it.
- working hypothesis — See under hypothesis (def 1).