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24-letter words containing i, n, t, h, s, r

  • three-quarter turn stair — a staircase requiring a three-quarter turn at each landing for continued ascent or descent.
  • 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
  • throw one's weight about — to act in an authoritarian or aggressive manner
  • to go for the brass ring — to try to succeed in an area where there is a lot of competition
  • to go on a shopping trip — to go somewhere for the purpose of shopping
  • to join the retired list — to retire
  • to lay something to rest — If you lay something such as fears or rumours to rest or if you put them to rest, you succeed in proving that they are not true.
  • to rise to the challenge — If someone rises to the challenge, they act in response to a difficult situation which is new to them and are successful.
  • to set fire to something — If you set fire to something or if you set it on fire, you start it burning in order to damage or destroy it.
  • transcendental aesthetic — (in Kantian epistemology) the study of space and time as the a priori forms of perception.
  • tri-nations championship — (from 1996–2011) the annual tournament in which the national sides representing Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa compete; in 2012 Argentina entered and the competition became the Rugby Championship
  • trip the light fantastic — a journey or voyage: to win a trip to Paris.
  • twenty-four-hour service — a banking service that is always available
  • which stands for nothing — (language)   (WSFN) A beginner's language with emphasis on graphics produced by Atari in 1983 for Atari home computers. There is also Advanced WSFN.
  • 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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