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26-letter words containing m, i, s, t, h, n

  • the single european market — the free trade policy that operates between members of the European Union
  • thematic apperception test — a projective technique in which stories told by a subject about each of a series of pictures are assumed to reveal dominant needs or motivations. Abbreviation: TAT.
  • three-dimensional printing — the creation of solid objects by building up multiple layers, each layer corresponding to a plan held in a digital file
  • to bring something to bear — If you bring something to bear on a situation, you use it to deal with that situation.
  • to call something your own — If you have something you can call your own, it belongs only to you, rather than being controlled by or shared with someone else.
  • to catch hold of something — Hold is used in expressions such as grab hold of, catch hold of, and get hold of, to indicate that you close your hand tightly around something, for example to stop something moving or falling.
  • to hold something in check — If something or someone is held in check or is kept in check, they are controlled and prevented from becoming too great or powerful.
  • to laugh in someone's face — If someone laughs in your face, they are openly disrespectful towards you.
  • to look someone in the eye — If you look someone in the eye or look them in the face, you look straight at their eyes in a bold and open way, for example in order to make them realize that you are telling the truth.
  • to pick holes in something — If you pick holes in an argument or theory, you find weak points in it so that it is no longer valid.
  • to pip someone at the post — If someone is pipped at the post or pipped to the post they are just beaten in a competition or in a race to achieve something.
  • to pour scorn on something — If you pour scorn on someone or something or heap scorn on them, you say that you think they are stupid and worthless.
  • to shed light on something — To shed light on, throw light on, or cast light on something means to make it easier to understand, because more information is known about it.
  • turn something on its head — to treat or present something in a completely new and different way
  • two sides of the same coin — opposite but connected ideas
  • what someone is driving at — If you ask someone what they are driving at, you are asking what they are trying to say or what they are saying indirectly.
  • wilcoxon mann-whitney test — a statistical test of the difference between the distributions of data collected in two experimental conditions applied to unmatched groups of subjects but comparing the distributions of the ranks of the scores
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