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26-letter words containing n, o, s, h, r, i

  • 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 be in raptures over sth — be highly delighted with
  • to be in the driver's seat — to be in a position of control
  • 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 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 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 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 rub salt into the wound — If someone or something rubs salt into the wound, they make the unpleasant situation that you are in even worse, often by reminding you of your failures or faults.
  • 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
  • with one's nose in the air — haughtily
  • worth one's weight in gold — extremely helpful, kind, etc
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