32-letter words containing a, n, t, h, r
- south ossetian autonomous region — an autonomous region of the Georgian Republic, in the N part. 1428 sq. mi. (3900 sq. km). Capital: Tskhinvali.
- sweep something under the carpet — to conceal (something, esp a problem) in the hope that it will be overlooked by others
- systems application architecture — (programming) (SAA) IBM's family of standard interfaces which enable software to be written independently of hardware and operating system.
- take one's courage in both hands — to nerve oneself to perform an action
- take the law into your own hands — act as a vigilante
- the courage of one's convictions — the confidence to act in accordance with one's beliefs
- the game is not worth the candle — If you say that the game is not worth the candle, you mean that something is not worth the trouble or effort needed to achieve or obtain it.
- the strategic defense initiative — the proposal to have a ground- and space-based systems to protect against nuclear attack
- throw someone in at the deep end — to put someone into a new situation, job, etc, without preparation or introduction
- to go to great lengths to do sth — if you say that someone goes to great lengths to achieve something, you mean that they go to a lot of trouble in order to achieve it
- to have by the short and curlies — to have completely in one's power
- to nail your colours to the mast — If someone nails their colours to the mast, they say what they really think about something.
- to vanish from the radar screens — to go missing; to no longer be visible or able to be detected by anyone
- turn/beat swords into plowshares — If you say that swords have been turned into plowshares or beaten into plowshares, you mean that a state of conflict between two or more groups of people has ended and a period of peace has begun.
- virtual sequential access method — Virtual Storage Access Method
- wash one's dirty linen in public — fabric woven from flax yarns.
- wear one's heart on one's sleeve — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- with your tail between your legs — If you say that you have your tail between your legs, you are emphasizing that you feel defeated and ashamed.
- yet another scheme object system — (language) (YASOS) A system for object-oriented programming in Scheme. E-mail: Ken Dickey <[email protected]>