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

  • straight-line depreciation — Straight-line depreciation is a method of depreciation in which an equal amount of depreciation is taken each year.
  • suit sb down to the ground — If you say that something such as a job or piece of clothing suits someone down to the ground, you mean that it is completely suitable or right for them.
  • take something for granted — If you take something for granted, you believe that it is true or accept it as normal without thinking about it.
  • take steps to do something — to undertake measures with a view to the attainment of some end
  • the single european market — the free trade policy that operates between members of the European Union
  • the writing is on the wall — If you say that the writing is on the wall, you mean that there are clear signs that a situation is going to become very difficult or unpleasant.
  • 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 get your house in order — If someone gets their house in order, puts their house in order, or sets their house in order, they arrange their affairs and solve their problems.
  • 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 on the bright side — If you look on the bright side, you try to be cheerful about a bad situation by thinking of some advantages that could result from it, or thinking that it is not as bad as it could have been.
  • to pick holes in something — If you pick holes in an argument or theory, you find weak points in it so that it is no longer valid.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 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.
  • to sign on the dotted line — If you sign on the dotted line, you formally agree to something by signing an official document.
  • 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.
  • turn something on its head — to treat or present something in a completely new and different way
  • 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.
  • with one's beer goggles on — seeing people and things as increasingly attractive as one's alcohol intake rises
  • worth one's weight in gold — extremely helpful, kind, etc
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