16-letter words containing o, f, t, h, e, d
- streets ahead of — superior to, more advanced than, etc
- take the lid off — to make startling or spectacular revelations about
- the four hundred — the most exclusive or affluent social clique in a particular place
- to hold the fort — If you hold the fort for someone, or, in American English, if you hold down the fort, you look after things for them while they are somewhere else or are busy doing something else.
- twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
- way of the world — a comedy of manners (1700) by William Congreve.
- wide of the mark — If something such as a claim or estimate is wide of the mark, it is incorrect or inaccurate.