23-letter words containing m, e, n, s, t
- talk someone's head off — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- terminal user interface — Textual User Interface
- the department of state — the United States federal department concerned with foreign policy
- the numbers game/racket — If you refer to the numbers game, the numbers racket, or the numbers, you are referring to an illegal lottery or illegal betting.
- the scottish parliament — the devolved national legislature of Scotland, located in Edinburgh
- the taming of the shrew — a comedy (1594?) by Shakespeare.
- there is no holding him — he is so spirited or resolute that he cannot be restrained
- thompson submachine gun — a portable, .45-caliber, automatic weapon designed to be fired from the shoulder or hip.
- to blow someone's cover — To blow someone's cover means to cause their true identity or the true nature of their work to be revealed.
- to call someone's bluff — If you call someone's bluff, you tell them to do what they have been threatening to do, because you are sure that they will not really do it.
- to clap eyes on someone — To clap eyes on someone or something, or set or lay eyes on them, means to see them.
- to clip someone's wings — If you say that something or someone clips your wings, you mean that they restrict your freedom to do what you want.
- to come off second best — to be defeated
- to come to a sticky end — If someone comes to a sticky end or meets a sticky end, they suffer very badly or die in an unpleasant way.
- to force someone's hand — If you force someone's hand, you force them to act sooner than they want to, or to act in public when they would prefer to keep their actions secret.
- to keep someone company — If you keep someone company, you spend time with them and stop them feeling lonely or bored.
- to make your skin crawl — If something makes your skin crawl or makes your flesh crawl, it makes you feel shocked or disgusted.
- to meet someone halfway — If you meet someone halfway, you accept some of the points they are making so that you can come to an agreement with them.
- to run someone to earth — If you run someone or something to earth, you find them after searching for them for a long time.
- to save someone's bacon — If someone or something saves your bacon, they get you out of a dangerous or difficult situation.
- to send someone packing — If you send someone packing, you make them go away.
- to shake someone's hand — If you shake someone's hand or shake someone by the hand, you shake hands with them.
- trans-new guinea phylum — the largest grouping of the non-Austronesian languages of Papua and New Guinea and the surrounding regions
- transcendental argument — an argument designed to make explicit the conditions under which a certain kind of knowledge is possible, esp those of Kant
- transcendental idealism — the Kantian doctrine that reality consists not of appearances, but of some other order of being whose existence can be inferred from the nature of human reason
- tread on someone's toes — the action of treading, stepping, or walking.
- treat someone like dirt — If you say that someone treats you like dirt, you are angry with them because you think that they treat you unfairly and with no respect.
- trellis code modulation — (TCM) A modulation technique with hardware error detection and correction.
- twenty-second amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1951, limiting presidential terms to two for any one person, or to one elected term if the person has completed more than two years of another's term.
- twin-lens reflex camera — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
- ulster defence regiment — a former reserve regiment of the British Army based in Northern Ireland
- under the circumstances — a condition, detail, part, or attribute, with respect to time, place, manner,agent, etc., that accompanies, determines, or modifies a fact or event; a modifying or influencing factor: Do not judge his behavior without considering every circumstance.
- united methodist church — the largest denomination of the Methodist church in the U.S., formed in 1939 from the merger of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and the Methodist Protestant Church, with the addition in 1968 of the Evangelical United Brethren.
- university of minnesota — (body, education) The home of Gopher. Address: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
- veterans administration — the federal agency charged with administering benefits provided by law for veterans of the armed forces. Abbreviation: VA, V.A.
- viscount melville sound — an arm of the Arctic Ocean between Victoria and Prince of Wales islands to the S and Melville and Bathurst islands to the N, in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Canada. 250 miles (400 km) long and 100 miles (160 km) wide.
- visual display terminal — video display terminal. Abbreviation: VDT.
- volumetric displacement — the volume of air per revolution that passes through a mechanical pump when the pressure at the intake and the exhaust is the same as that of the atmosphere
- what makes someone tick — the basic drive or motivation of a person
- when it comes (down) to — You can use the expression when it comes to or when it comes down to in order to introduce a new topic or a new aspect of a topic that you are talking about.
- whet someone's appetite — If someone or something whets your appetite for a particular thing, they increase your desire to have it or know about it, especially by giving you an idea of what it is like.
- wolfgang amadeus mozart — Wolfgang Amadeus [woo lf-gang am-uh-dey-uh s;; German vawlf-gahng ah-mah-dey-oo s] /ˈwʊlf gæŋ ˌæm əˈdeɪ əs;; German ˈvɔlf gɑŋ ˌɑ mɑˈdeɪ ʊs/ (Show IPA), 1756–91, Austrian composer.