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24-letter words containing c, h, i, p, e, n

  • telephony user interface — (communications)   (TUI) Either a software interface to telephony (e.g. a phone-capable PC) or a DTMF-based interface to software (e.g. voicemail).
  • the villain of the piece — If you say that someone is the villain of the piece, you are saying in a slightly humorous way that they are seen by some people as the cause of all the trouble in a particular situation.
  • thompson sub-machine-gun — a .45 calibre sub-machine-gun
  • three-spined stickleback — a small teleost fish, Gasterosteus aculeatus, of the family Gasterosteidae, of rivers and coastal regions, having three spines along the back and occurring in cold and temperate northern regions
  • trip the light fantastic — a journey or voyage: to win a trip to Paris.
  • when one's ship comes in — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
  • within spitting distance — If one place is within spitting distance of another, they are very close to each other.
  • wolf in sheep's clothing — any of several large carnivorous mammals of the genus Canis, of the dog family Canidae, especially C. lupus, usually hunting in packs, formerly common throughout the Northern Hemisphere but now chiefly restricted to the more unpopulated parts of its range.
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