18-letter words containing a, t, s
- systems programmer — a person whose job is to program systems software
- take a shine to sb — If you say that someone has taken a shine to another person, you mean that he or she liked them very much at their first meeting.
- take one's chances — to accept the uncertain outcome as of a course of action
- take out insurance — take out insurance against something
- take sth in stride — If you take a problem or difficulty in stride, you deal with it calmly and easily.
- take sth literally — If you take something literally, you think that a word or expression is being used with its most simple or basic meaning.
- take the wraps off — to reveal
- take to one's legs — to run away
- tale of two cities — a historical novel (1859) by Dickens.
- talk a blue streak — speak rapidly and incessantly
- talk between ships — TBS (def 1).
- tan someone's hide — to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.
- tardive dyskinesia — a disorder characterized by restlessness and involuntary rolling of the tongue or twitching of the face, trunk, or limbs, usually occurring as a complication of long-term therapy with antipsychotic drugs.
- task control block — (architecture) An MVS control block used to communicate information about tasks within an address space that are connected to an MVS subsystem such as MQSeries for MVS/ESA or CICS.
- teaching assistant — a graduate student in a college or university who is the recipient of a teaching fellowship. Abbreviation: TA.
- technical reserves — Technical reserves are amounts of money set aside to pay for underwriting liabilities.
- technical sergeant — a noncommissioned officer ranking below a master sergeant and above a staff sergeant.
- telecommunications — Sometimes, telecommunication. (used with a singular verb) the transmission of information, as words, sounds, or images, usually over great distances, in the form of electromagnetic signals, as by telegraph, telephone, radio, or television.
- television cabinet — a cabinet on which a television set is placed or in which it is encased
- television company — a company that broadcasts programmes by television
- television station — station (def 8).
- temporal summation — the act or process of summing.
- temporary hardness — hardness of water due to the presence of magnesium and calcium hydrogencarbonates, which can be precipitated as carbonates by boiling
- terrestrial planet — inner planet.
- territorial waters — law: nation's boundaries
- tertiary structure — the way in which the helixes or beta structures of a polypeptide are folded or arranged into a three-dimensional configuration.
- testamentary trust — a trust set up under the terms of a will.
- that's the ticket! — that's the correct or proper thing! that's right!
- the baptist church — any of various Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of believers
- the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
- the black and tans — a specially recruited armed auxiliary police force sent to Ireland in 1921 by the British Government to combat Sinn Féin
- the blue hen state — a nickname for the state of Delaware
- the cat's whiskers — a person or thing that is excellent or superior
- the class struggle — the continual conflict between the capitalist and working classes for economic and political power
- the coast is clear — If you say that the coast is clear, you mean that there is nobody around to see you or catch you.
- the damage is done — If you say 'the damage is done', you mean that it is too late now to prevent the harmful effects of something that has already happened.
- the dismal science — a name for economics coined by Thomas Carlyle
- the final solution — the code name used by the Nazis to refer to the plan of mass murder of the Jews
- the first sea lord — the senior of the two serving naval officers who sits on the admiralty board of the Ministry of Defence
- the heavens opened — it started pouring with rain
- the hunger marches — a number of processions by unemployed workers in the 1930s to protest against unemployment and deprivation
- the intelligentsia — the educated or intellectual people in a society or community
- the lords temporal — (in Britain) peers other than bishops in their capacity as members of the House of Lords
- the magnolia state — a nickname referring to Mississippi
- the masurian lakes — a group of lakes in Masuria in NE Poland: scene of Russian defeats by the Germans (1914, 1915) during World War I
- the middle passage — the journey across the Atlantic Ocean from the W coast of Africa to the Caribbean: the longest part of the journey of the slave ships sailing to the Caribbean or the Americas
- the mosque of omar — the mosque in Jerusalem, Israel, built in 691 ad by caliph 'Abd al-Malik: the third most holy place of Islam; stands on the Temple Mount alongside the al-Aqsa mosque
- the mountain state — a nickname referring to West Virginia
- the palmetto state — a nickname for South Carolina
- the passenger seat — the seat used by a passenger of a car, beside the driver