MULTI-HYPHENS
Darker hair streaked with gray is often referred to as this "seasoned" mix.
Salt-and-pepper
It tells you what's in a book.
Table of contents
I'm mired in doubt pondering past decisions, feeling this way, which could also describe a mirror.
Reflective
Your water just broke, so things are probably about to get noisy--except you can't make any noise or monsters will eat you?
A Quiet Place
All powerful, like God.
(10 letters)
Omnipotent
Beginning with a happy word, it's another name for a carousel at the fair.
Merry-go-round
Bryan Berg built a very tall one of these precarious structures; it took 1,000 decks just for the spire.
House of cards
I'm out of sorts, & I think I'm suffering from this feeling, a French word for general discontent & world-weariness.
Malaise (ennui)
You're found floating unconscious in the Mediterranean near France & you don't know your name or how you got so good at martial arts?
The Bourne Identity
A human-eating monster from fairy tales.
(4 letters)
Ogre
As an adjective, this term with 3 hyphens means the very latest in technology or science.
State-of-the-art
If you got COLA at work, it could be this kind of adjustment or allowance to your salary.
Cost of living
After falling in the koi pond, I'm as embarrassed as I could possibly be, --this way that's from the Latin for "death".
Mortified
You go hiking & don't tell anyone where you're going, then your forearm gets stuck in some rocks & you gotta... liberate your arm?
127 Hours
Singularly oppressive or burdensome.
(7 letters)
Onerous
Off the beaten path is similar to this hyphenated idiom; I know a nice, quiet this kind of restaurant.
Out-of-the-way
Whether prince or president, but often more permanent than prime minister, it's a nation's titular ruler.
Head of state
I'm so calm & peaceful--you might even say I'm this word found in the titles of Monaco's royalty.
Serene
You're squatting at your rich employers' home with your entire family & you find a guy living in a bunker in the basement?
Parasite
Up to the chef, in Japanese.
(7 letters)
Omakase
An NFPO is this type of organization with proceeds that go only toward furthering its goals.
Not-for-profit Organization
3-word phrase for the legal responsibility for demonstrating guilt.
Burden of proof
I'm nauseated; perhaps I've got a case of this parasitic roundworm intestinal disease; the pork tartare was a bad choice.
Trichinosis
You're trying to repair the Hubble Space Telescope & your ride home gets taken out by flying debris?
Gravity
Neither perpendicular nor parallel.
(7 letters)
Oblique