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22-letter words containing p, h, o, t, g

  • the great leap forward — the attempt by the People's Republic of China in 1959–60 to solve the country's economic problems by labour-intensive industrialization
  • the tip of the iceberg — If you say that a problem is the tip of the iceberg, you mean that it is one small part of a much larger problem.
  • the top of the morning — a morning greeting regarded as characteristic of Irishmen
  • the-leaning-tower-pisa — a round, marble campanile in Pisa, Italy, begun in 1174 and now 17 feet (5.2 meters) out of the perpendicular in its height of 179 feet (54 meters).
  • time-lapse photography — the photographing on motion-picture film of a slow and continuous process, as the growth of a plant, at regular intervals, especially by exposing a single frame at a time, for projection at a higher speed.
  • to go off the deep end — to lose your temper; react angrily
  • to make the front page — if something 'makes the front page' it is printed on the first page of a newspaper
  • to open the floodgates — If events open the floodgates to something, they make it possible for that thing to happen much more often or much more seriously than before.
  • to play to the gallery — If you play to the gallery, you do something in public in a way which you hope will impress people.
  • video graphics adapter — Video Graphics Array
  • video graphics adaptor — Video Graphics Array
  • within someone's grasp — If you say that something is within someone's grasp, you mean that it is very likely that they will achieve it.
  • zero population growth — the maintenance of a population at a constant level by limiting the number of live births to that needed to replace the existing population.
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