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24-letter words containing e, n, s, h, r

  • to show someone the door — If someone shows you the door, they ask you to leave because they are angry with you.
  • tools of one's/the trade — The tools of your trade or the tools of the trade are the skills, instruments, and other equipment that you need in order to do your job properly.
  • transcendental aesthetic — (in Kantian epistemology) the study of space and time as the a priori forms of perception.
  • transpersonal psychology — a branch of psychology or psychotherapy that recognizes altered states of consciousness and transcendent experiences as a means to understand the human mind and treat psychological disordrs.
  • trip the light fantastic — a journey or voyage: to win a trip to Paris.
  • tug/touch one's forelock — If you say that a person tugs their forelock to another person, you are criticizing them for showing too much respect to the second person or being unnecessarily worried about their opinions.
  • twenty-four-hour service — a banking service that is always available
  • under the sway of sb/sth — If you are under the sway of someone or something, they have great influence over you.
  • webster-ashburton treaty — U.S. History. an agreement between the U.S. and England (1842) defining the boundary between British and American territory from Maine to present-day Minnesota.
  • where one is coming from — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
  • within striking distance — If you are within striking distance of something, or if something is within striking distance, it is quite near, so it could be reached or achieved quite easily.
  • your heart is not in sth — If your heart isn't in the thing you are doing, you have very little enthusiasm for it, usually because you are depressed or are thinking about something else.
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