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22-letter words containing t, g, w

  • special drawing rights — the reserve assets of the International Monetary Fund on which member nations may draw in proportion to their contribution to the Fund
  • swings and roundabouts — If you say that a situation is swings and roundabouts, you mean that there are as many gains as there are losses.
  • 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-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).
  • to awaken to something — to become aware of something
  • to get/be carried away — If you get carried away or are carried away, you are so eager or excited about something that you do something hasty or foolish.
  • to have had a good war — to have made the most of the opportunities presented to one during wartime
  • vibration white finger — a condition affecting workers using vibrating machinery, which causes damage to the blood vessels and nerves of the fingers and leads to a permanent loss of feeling
  • wardour street english — affectedly archaic speech or writing
  • washington court house — a city in SW Ohio.
  • water under the bridge — If you say that an event or incident is water under the bridge, you mean that it has happened and cannot now be changed, so there is no point in worrying about it any more.
  • west greenland current — an ocean current flowing northward along the west coast of Greenland.
  • white-tailed sea eagle — a grayish-brown sea eagle, Haliaetus albicilla, of the Old World and Greenland, having a white tail.
  • with all the trimmings — if you say that something comes with all the trimmings, you mean that it has many extra things added to it to make it more special
  • with egg on one's face — made to look ridiculous
  • 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.
  • within-subjects design — (of an experiment) concerned with measuring the value of the dependent variable for the same subjects under the various experimental conditions
  • wrong end of the stick — a complete misunderstanding of a situation, explanation, etc
  • 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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