26-letter words containing c, h, i, m, n
- to catch hold of something — Hold is used in expressions such as grab hold of, catch hold of, and get hold of, to indicate that you close your hand tightly around something, for example to stop something moving or falling.
- to come to a grinding halt — If you say that something comes to a grinding halt, you are emphasizing that it stops very suddenly, especially before it was meant to.
- to hold something in check — If something or someone is held in check or is kept in check, they are controlled and prevented from becoming too great or powerful.
- to laugh in someone's face — If someone laughs in your face, they are openly disrespectful towards you.
- to pick holes in something — If you pick holes in an argument or theory, you find weak points in it so that it is no longer valid.
- to pour scorn on something — If you pour scorn on someone or something or heap scorn on them, you say that you think they are stupid and worthless.
- triple combination therapy — treatment with three different drugs
- two sides of the same coin — opposite but connected ideas
- wilcoxon mann-whitney test — a statistical test of the difference between the distributions of data collected in two experimental conditions applied to unmatched groups of subjects but comparing the distributions of the ranks of the scores