32-letter words containing f, a, t, e
- take the wind out of one's sails — air in natural motion, as that moving horizontally at any velocity along the earth's surface: A gentle wind blew through the valley. High winds were forecast.
- the courage of one's convictions — the confidence to act in accordance with one's beliefs
- the strategic defense initiative — the proposal to have a ground- and space-based systems to protect against nuclear attack
- time-of-flight mass spectroscopy — a technique for separating ions according to the time required for them to traverse a set distance.
- to have mixed feelings about sth — If you have mixed feelings about something or someone, you feel uncertain about them because you can see both good and bad points about them.
- to leave somebody partially deaf — to make sb partly deaf
- to put the cart before the horse — If you say that someone is putting the cart before the horse, you mean that they are doing things in the wrong order.
- to throw off the shackles of sth — to reject something or free oneself from it because it was preventing one from doing what one wanted to do
- to vanish from the radar screens — to go missing; to no longer be visible or able to be detected by anyone
- twist around one's little finger — to have easy and complete control or influence over
- uniform code of military justice — the body of laws governing members of the U.S. armed forces: superseded the Articles of War in 1951
- united states information agency — an independent agency, created in 1953 and known from 1978 to 1982 as the International Communication Agency, that administers the government's overseas information and cultural programs. Abbreviation: USIA.
- want in (or out or off, etc. ) — to want to get, go, or come in (or out, off, etc.)
- weighted average cost of capital — The weighted average cost of capital is the cost of capital that is adjusted according to the percentages of debt financing and equity financing.