26-letter words containing f, e, o, r, s
- the fruits of your labours — the profits or gains achieved as a result of hard work
- the other side of the coin — You use the other side of the coin to mention a different aspect of a situation.
- the short end of the stick — the worst of a deal
- to be a dead ringer for sb — a person who is very similar in appearance to someone else
- to get off your high horse — if you tell someone to, or suggest that someone should, get off their high horse, you are suggesting they stop behaving in a superior manner
- to get your fingers burned — If you get your fingers burned or burn your fingers, you suffer because something you did or were involved in was a failure or a mistake.
- to hold someone for ransom — If a kidnapper is holding a person for ransom, they keep that person prisoner until they are given what they want.
- to lay a finger on someone — If you say that someone did not lay a finger on a particular person or thing, you are emphasizing that they did not touch or harm them at all.
- too big for one's breeches — Also called knee breeches. knee-length trousers, often having ornamental buckles or elaborate decoration at or near the bottoms, commonly worn by men and boys in the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries.
- tourist information office — an office that supplies information to people who are visiting an area for pleasure or interest, for example advice on things to see, accommodation, etc
- transformational component — a set of transformational rules that convert the deep structure of sentences into their surface structures
- transport driver interface — (networking) (TDI) Developed by SUN, IBM, and Microsoft (and others?), the TDI is a software interface between the protocols and application programing interface layers of the Windows NT network model.
- ulster defence association — (in Northern Ireland) a Loyalist paramilitary organization
- university of pennsylvania — (body, education) The home of ENIAC and Machiavelli. Address: Philadelphia, PA, USA.
- won't/wouldn't hear of sth — If you say that you won't hear of someone doing something, you mean that you refuse to let them do it.
- young offender institution — (in Britain) a place where offenders aged 15 to 21 may be detained and given training, instruction, and work
- zermelo fränkel set theory — (mathematics) A set theory with the axioms of Zermelo set theory (Extensionality, Union, Pair-set, Foundation, Restriction, Infinity, Power-set) plus the Replacement axiom schema: If F(x,y) is a formula such that for any x, there is a unique y making F true, and X is a set, then {F x : x in X} is a set. In other words, if you do something to each element of a set, the result is a set. An important but controversial axiom which is NOT part of ZF theory is the Axiom of Choice.