16-letter words containing o, p, h, t
- throw for a loop — a portion of a cord, ribbon, etc., folded or doubled upon itself so as to leave an opening between the parts.
- tightrope walker — performer who walks on high wire
- to change places — If you change places with another person, you start being in their situation or role, and they start being in yours.
- to coin a phrase — You say 'to coin a phrase' to show that you realize you are making a pun or using a cliché.
- to lose the plot — If someone loses the plot, they become confused and do not know what they should do.
- to pass the buck — If you pass the buck, you refuse to accept responsibility for something, and say that someone else is responsible.
- to pass the time — If you do something to pass the time you do it because you have some time available and not because you really want to do it.
- to play the fool — If you play the fool or act the fool, you behave in a playful, childish, and foolish way, usually in order to make other people laugh.
- to put sth right — If you put something right, you correct something that was wrong or that was causing problems.
- to stop short of — If someone stops short of doing something, they come close to doing it but do not actually do it.
- top-of-the-range — de luxe, expensive
- topsail schooner — a sailing vessel fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts with square sails above the foresail, and often with a square sail before the foresail.
- trick photograph — a photograph that creates an illusion
- troop the colors — to parade the colors, or flag, before troops
- two-tailed pasha — a distinctive vanessid butterfly of S Europe, Charaxes jasius, having mottled brown wings with a yellow-orange margin and frilled hind edges
- 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.
- typhoid bacillus — the bacterium Salmonella typhosa, causing typhoid fever.
- under the plough — If an area of land is under the plough, it is used for growing crops. If land is brought or put under the plough, it is ploughed for the first time and is then used for growing crops.
- up to the elbows — deeply engaged (in work, etc.)
- up-to-the-minute — extending to the present moment, as information, facts, or style: an up-to-the-minute news report.
- upper atmosphere — the portion of the atmosphere above the troposphere.
- ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
- voluntary helper — a person who aids or assists in a specified function of one's own accord and without compulsion or promise of remuneration
- walk a tightrope — be in a precarious position
- watch one's step — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
- well-upholstered — (of a person) fat
- white propaganda — propaganda that comes from the source it claims to come from
- will-o'-the-wisp — ignis fatuus (def 1).
- wipe off the map — to put out of existence
- x-ray photograph — a radiograph made with x-rays.
- yah-boo politics — adversarial politics in which politicians constantly deride their opponents and dismiss everything suggested by them
- zenith telescope — a telescope mounted to point only at the zenith, used at some observatories for measuring time by the stars.