25-letter words containing h, e, i
- stretch one's imagination — If you say that something stretches your imagination, you mean that it is good because it makes you think about things that you had not thought about before.
- sulphate-resisting cement — a type of Portland cement that resists normal concentrations of sulphates: used in concrete for flues and underwater work
- sympathetic introspection — a study of human conduct in which the investigator imagines himself or herself engaged in that conduct.
- take sth under advisement — If someone in authority takes a matter under advisement, they decide that the matter needs to be considered more carefully, often by experts.
- take the queen's shilling — to enlist in the army
- take the sting out of sth — If something takes the sting out of a situation, it makes it less unpleasant.
- tess of the d'urbervilles — a novel (1891) by Thomas Hardy.
- tetragonal trisoctahedron — Geometry. a trisoctahedron the faces of which are quadrilaterals; trapezohedron.
- the ball is in sb's court — If you say that the ball is in someone's court, you mean that it is his or her responsibility to take the next action or decision in a situation.
- the ball is in your court — you are obliged to make the next move
- the empire state building — a very high skyscraper in New York City
- the first epistle of john — an epistle attributed to the apostle John which counters claims that Jesus Christ came only in spirit and not in the flesh
- the high priestess of sth — if you call a woman the high priestess of a particular thing, you are saying in a slightly mocking way that she is considered by people to be expert in that thing
- the industrial revolution — the transformation in the 18th and 19th centuries of first Britain and then other W European countries and the US into industrial nations
- the knives are out for sb — If a lot of people want something unpleasant to happen to someone, for example if they want them to lose their job, you can say that the knives are out for that person.
- the leaning tower of pisa — the bell tower of Pisa Cathedral
- the meteorological office — a British Government department supplying weather forecasts
- the mother of parliaments — the British Parliament: the model and creator of many other Parliaments
- the politically incorrect — politically incorrect people considered collectively
- the protestant work ethic — a belief in the moral value of work, associated with Protestant Christianity
- the sands are running out — there is not much time left before death or the end
- the scholastic profession — the profession of teaching
- the thin end of the wedge — If you say that something is the thin end of the wedge, you mean that it appears to be unimportant at the moment, but that it is the beginning of a bigger, more harmful development.
- the third epistle of john — an epistle attributed to the apostle John and addressed to a man called Gaius, who is praised in the letter
- the trash heap of history — a figurative or imaginative place where forgotten things or people go
- there are no flies on him — he is no fool
- thermal imaging equipment — heat-sensitive devices that can detect or provide images of people or things
- thermodynamic equilibrium — the condition of an isolated system in which the quantities that specify its properties, such as pressure, temperature, etc, all remain unchanged
- thermodynamic temperature — temperature defined in terms of the laws of thermodynamics and not in terms of the properties of any real material. It is usually expressed on the Kelvin scale
- thermoelectromotive force — the electromotive force developed by the thermoelectric effect.
- thermoluminescence dating — a method of dating archaeological specimens, chiefly pottery, by measuring the radiation given off by ceramic materials as they are heated.
- thin-layer chromatography — chromatography in which glass plates coated with thin layers of alumina, silica gel, or cellulose are used as an adsorbent.
- through the looking-glass — a story for children (1871) by Lewis Carroll: the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
- throw dust in the eyes of — to confuse or mislead
- throw one's weight around — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
- throw one's weight behind — If you throw your weight behind a person, plan, or campaign, you use all your influence and do everything you can to support them.
- to be better than nothing — If you say that something is better than nothing, you mean that it is not what is required, but that it is better to have that thing than to have nothing at all.
- to be in the catbird seat — to be in a very good situation
- to be in the driving seat — If you say that someone is in the driving seat, you mean that they are in control in a situation.
- to be living proof that … — to show that
- to call something to mind — If something brings another thing to mind or calls another thing to mind, it makes you think of that other thing, usually because it is similar in some way.
- to catch sight of someone — If you catch sight of someone, you suddenly see them, often briefly.
- to drink someone's health — When you drink to someone's health or drink their health, you have a drink as a sign of wishing them health and happiness.
- to get on your high horse — to adopt a superior or pretentious attitude
- to go on a shooting spree — (of a fanatic)to shoot a number of people
- to go on a shopping spree — to shop excessively; to buy a lot of things in an extravagant way
- to have irons in the fire — If someone has a lot of irons in the fire, they are involved in several different activities or have several different plans.
- to kiss something goodbye — If you say that you kiss something goodbye or kiss goodbye to something, you accept the fact that you are going to lose it, although you do not want to.
- to lay claim to something — If you lay claim to something you do not have, you say that it belongs to you.
- to lay siege to something — If police, soldiers, or journalists lay siege to a place, they surround it in order to force the people there to come out or give up control of the place.