18-letter words containing n, i, g, h, t
- synthetic geometry — elementary geometry, as distinct from analytic geometry.
- teaching assistant — a graduate student in a college or university who is the recipient of a teaching fellowship. Abbreviation: TA.
- teaching equipment — teaching aids
- technical sergeant — a noncommissioned officer ranking below a master sergeant and above a staff sergeant.
- the damage is done — If you say 'the damage is done', you mean that it is too late now to prevent the harmful effects of something that has already happened.
- the electronic age — the electronic age began when electronic equipment, including computers came into use
- the general public — the people in a society; people in general
- the grand national — an annual steeplechase run at Aintree, Liverpool, since 1839
- the intelligentsia — the educated or intellectual people in a society or community
- the magnolia state — a nickname referring to Mississippi
- the major rogation — April 25, observed by Christians as a day of solemn supplication for the harvest and marked by processions, special prayers, and blessing of the crops
- the nether regions — the genitals
- there you go again — Phrases such as there you go again are used to show annoyance at someone who is repeating something that has annoyed you in the past.
- 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.
- third man argument — (in the philosophy of Aristotle) the argument against the existence of Platonic Forms that since the Form of Man is itself a perfect man, a further form (the "third" man) would be required to explain this, and so ad infinitum
- 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.
- three-day eventing — participation in a three day equestrian competition consisting of dressage, cross-country jumping, and stadium jumping
- 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
- university heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
- westinghouse brake — a railroad air brake operated by compressed air.
- whitewater rafting — the sport of rafting down fast-flowing rivers, esp over rapids
- 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).