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20-letter words containing t, h, e, b, o, w

  • absent without leave — absent from duty without official permission but with no intention of deserting
  • back the wrong horse — to bet on a horse that loses the race
  • be getting somewhere — If you say that you are getting somewhere, you mean that you are making progress towards achieving something.
  • be shot through with — If something is shot through with an element or feature, it contains a lot of that element or feature.
  • bowling on the green — lawn bowling.
  • bowling-on-the-green — a game played with wooden balls on a level, closely mowed green having a slight bias, the object being to roll one's ball as near as possible to a smaller white ball at the other end of the green. Also called bowls, bowling on the green. Compare bowl2 (def 2), bowling green, jack1 (def 7), rink (def 5).
  • bring down the house — to receive enthusiastic applause from the audience
  • bring into the world — (of a midwife, doctor, etc) to deliver (a baby)
  • bring the house down — to win great applause
  • by their own account — If you say that something concerning a particular person is true by his or her own account, you mean that you believe it because that person has said it is true.
  • give a wide berth to — to keep clear of; avoid
  • how about something? — what is your wish, opinion, or information concerning something (or someone)?
  • on the drawing board — in the planning stage
  • on the starboard bow — within 45 degrees to the starboard of straight ahead
  • prothonotary warbler — a wood warbler, Protonotaria citrea, of the eastern U.S., having an orange-yellow head and underparts, and bluish-gray wings and tail.
  • rub up the wrong way — to arouse anger (in); annoy
  • switchboard operator — a person who operates an installation in a telephone exchange, office, hotel, etc, at which the interconnection of telephone lines is manually controlled
  • the (whole) ballgame — the main or decisive factor, event, etc.
  • to be a one-man show — to be reliant on one person alone
  • to be a warning shot — to be a warning
  • to show sb the ropes — to show someone how to do a particular job or task
  • to waste your breath — If someone says you are wasting your breath, they mean that the person you are talking to will not take any notice and so there is no point saying anything to them.
  • tomb of the unknowns — See under Unknown Soldier.
  • twiddle one's thumbs — to turn about or play with lightly or idly, especially with the fingers; twirl.
  • under/below strength — If an army or team is under strength or below strength, it does not have all the members that it needs or usually has.
  • war of the rebellion — American Civil War.
  • watch someone's back — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
  • webbing clothes moth — a small brown moth, Tineola biselliella, the larva of which feeds on woolens and spins a web when feeding.
  • wet-bulb thermometer — a thermometer having a bulb that is kept moistened when humidity determinations are being made with a psychrometer.
  • white bush (scallop) — a variety of summer squash having a saucer-shaped white fruit, scalloped around the edges
  • white people problem — a fairly minor problem, complaint, etc., associated with a relatively high standard of living; a first world problem.
  • yellow-breasted chat — an American warbler, Icteria virens, having a yellow throat and breast and greenish-brown upper parts and noted for imitating the songs of other species.

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