23-letter words containing o, h, a
- to stick in your throat — If something sticks in your throat, you find it unacceptable.
- to take a leap of faith — to risk belief
- to win the popular vote — to get a majority as regards the votes cast by individual voters
- to wipe the slate clean — If you wipe the slate clean, you decide to forget previous mistakes, failures, or debts and to start again.
- to your heart's content — as much as you please
- trigonal trisoctahedron — a trisoctahedron whose faces are triangles.
- turn a cold shoulder to — to treat with disdain; snub
- twenty-fourth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1964, forbidding the use of the poll tax as a requirement for voting in national or U.S. Congressional elections.
- unconditional discharge — the release of a defendant without having to spend time on parole or probation
- under a gooseberry bush — used humorously in answering children's questions regarding their birth
- united church of canada — the largest Protestant denomination in Canada, formed in the 1920s by incorporating some Presbyterians and most Methodists
- urea-formaldehyde resin — any of a group of resins formed by the interaction of urea and formaldehyde under conditions that include heat and pH control: used chiefly in the manufacture of buttons, baking enamels, and for making fabrics wrinkle-resistant.
- vestibulocochlear nerve — either one of the eight pairs of cranial nerves that supply the cochlea and semicircular canals of the internal ear and contribute to the sense of hearing
- viscount horatio nelson — Viscount Horatio, 1758–1805, British admiral.
- what makes someone tick — the basic drive or motivation of a person
- what the doctor ordered — something needed or desired
- when the chips are down — a small, slender piece, as of wood, separated by chopping, cutting, or breaking.
- 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.
- white-coat hypertension — the phenomenon of having elevated blood pressure only during a medical consultation
- wholly-owned subsidiary — A wholly-owned subsidiary is a company whose shares are all owned by another company.
- yellow-headed blackbird — a North American blackbird, Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus, having a yellow head.
- yellow-throated warbler — a warbler, Dendroica dominica, of the eastern U.S., having a yellow throat and breast.
- you can't go home again — a novel (1940) by Thomas Wolfe.