14-letter words containing old
- accordion-fold — to fold into pleats resembling the bellows of an accordion: to make a fan by accordion-folding a sheet of paper.
- account holder — the person whose name is on a bank account
- basket-of-gold — a yellow-flowered perennial plant (Alyssum saxatile, now more properly Aurinia saxatilis) of the crucifer family, often used in rock gardens
- brazing solder — an alloy of copper and zinc for joining two metal surfaces by melting the alloy so that it forms a thin layer between the surfaces
- break the mold — If you say that someone breaks the mold, you mean that they do completely different things from what has been done before or from what is usually done.
- colombian gold — a potent marijuana grown in South America.
- common soldier — a noncommissioned member of an army as opposed to a commissioned officer
- cotswold hills — range of hills in SW central England, mostly in Gloucestershire
- cross holdings — the holding of shares by one company in another company
- cuckold's knot — a hitch, as for holding a spar, consisting of a single loop with the overlapping parts of the rope seized together.
- fourfold block — a block having four pulleys or sheaves. Compare block (def 11).
- get hold of sb — If you get hold of someone, you manage to contact them.
- gold medallist — the winner of competition or race, who is awarded a gold medal
- golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
- golden goodbye — A golden goodbye is the same as a golden handshake.
- golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
- golden jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
- golden ragwort — any of various composite plants of the genus Senecio, as S. jacobaea, of the Old World, having yellow flowers and irregularly lobed leaves, or S. aureus (golden ragwort) of North America, also having yellow flowers.
- golden section — a ratio between two portions of a line, or the two dimensions of a plane figure, in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both: a ratio of approximately 0.618 to 1.000.
- golden thistle — Spanish oyster plant.
- golden warbler — yellow warbler.
- golden wedding — the fiftieth anniversary of a wedding.
- hold one's own — of, relating to, or belonging to oneself or itself (usually used after a possessive to emphasize the idea of ownership, interest, or relation conveyed by the possessive): He spent only his own money.
- hold sb's hand — If you ask someone to hold your hand at an event that you are worried about, you ask them to support you by being there with you.
- hold the field — to maintain one's position in the face of opposition
- hold the phone — not hang up
- hold to ransom — to keep (prisoners, property, etc) in confinement until payment for their release is made or received
- hold your fire — If someone holds their fire or holds fire, they stop shooting or they wait before they start shooting.
- holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
- household arts — activities such as sewing, cooking, etc, that are conducted in the running of a household
- household gods — a god presiding over and protecting the home, especially in the religion of ancient Rome.
- household name — a person or thing that is very well known
- household soap — a substance that you use with water for washing clothes, removing stains, cleaning floors, etc
- household word — a familiar name, phrase, saying, etc.; byword: The advertising campaign is designed to make this new product a household word.
- mangold-wurzel — mangel-wurzel.
- marsh marigold — a yellow-flowered plant, Caltha palustris, of the buttercup family, growing in marshes and meadows; cowslip.
- molded breadth — the extreme breadth of the framing of a vessel, excluding the thickness of the plating or planking.
- mongolian fold — epicanthus.
- old franconian — the Franconian language before 1100; Frankish.
- old line state — Maryland (used as a nickname).
- old low german — the language of the German lowlands before c1100. Abbreviation: OLG.
- old portuguese — the language of Portugal as spoken and written from the 14th to the middle of the 16th centuries.
- old school tie — a necktie striped in the colors of a specific English public school, especially as worn by a graduate to indicate his educational background.
- old-field colt — catch-colt (def 2).
- old-line party — either the Liberal Party or the Conservative Party
- old-man cactus — a Mexican cactus, Cephalocereus senilis, having a columnar body from 30 to 40 feet (9 to 12 meters) high with thatchlike, long, white hairs on the top, and red flowers with white centers.
- old-time dance — a formal or formation dance, such as the lancers
- permanent mold — a reusable metal mold used for making a large number of identical castings.
- soldering iron — an instrument for melting and applying solder.
- soldier beetle — a yellowish-red cantharid beetle, Rhagonycha fulva, having a somewhat elongated body
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