22-letter words containing t, h, a, g, o
- start the ball rolling — to open or initiate (an action, discussion, movement, etc)
- take cognizance of sth — If you take cognizance of something, you take notice of it or acknowledge it.
- take something as read — to take something for granted as a fact; understand or presume
- talk through one's hat — a shaped covering for the head, usually with a crown and brim, especially for wear outdoors.
- targa graphics adaptor — (graphics, file format) (TGA) The Truevision Targa Graphics Adaptor file format. The TGA format is a common bitmap file format for storage of 24-bit images. It supports colourmaps, alpha channels, compression and comments. More information is available from Truevision and The Graphics File Format Page.
- the (great) depression — the period of economic depression which began in 1929 and lasted through most of the 1930s
- the caring professions — professions such as nursing and social work that are involved with looking after people who are ill or who need help in coping with their lives
- the golden gate bridge — a bridge crossing the strait between the Pacific and San Francisco Bay, with a central span of 1280 m (4200 ft)
- the grand remonstrance — the document prepared by the Long Parliament in 1640 listing the evils of the king's government, the abuses already rectified, and the reforms Parliament advocated
- 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 marriage of figaro — Italian Le nozze di Figaro. an opera (1786) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- 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).
- through thick and thin — having relatively great extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thin: a thick slice.
- 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 awaken to something — to become aware of something
- to hate someone's guts — If you hate someone's guts, you dislike them very much indeed.
- to have had a good war — to have made the most of the opportunities presented to one during wartime
- to have the last laugh — If you say that you have the last laugh, you mean that you become successful at something so that people who criticize or oppose you look foolish.
- to laugh your head off — Phrases such as laugh your head off and scream your head off can be used to emphasize that someone is laughing or screaming a lot or very loudly.
- 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.
- university of michigan — (body, education) A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. 70% of the University's students graduated in the top 10% of their high school class. 90% rank in the top 20% of their high school class. 60% of the students receive financial aid. The main Ann Arbor Campus lies in the Huron River valley, 40 miles west of Detroit. The campus boasts 2700 acres with 200 buildings, six million volumes in 23 libraries, nine museums, seven hospitals, hundreds of laboratories and institutes, and over 18000 microcomputers.
- 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
- video graphics adapter — Video Graphics Array
- video graphics adaptor — Video Graphics Array
- voluntary manslaughter — the unlawful killing of one human being by another with malice aforethought but in mitigating circumstances
- wardour street english — affectedly archaic speech or writing
- washington court house — a city in SW Ohio.
- 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.
- you can say that again — yes: emphatically
- 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.