32-letter words containing n, o, t, e, l
- to (the best of) one's knowledge — as far as one knows; within the range of one's information
- to be living at starvation level — to have insufficient food to stay alive
- to follow in someone's footsteps — If you follow in someone's footsteps, you do the same things as they did earlier.
- to go to great lengths to do sth — if you say that someone goes to great lengths to achieve something, you mean that they go to a lot of trouble in order to achieve it
- to have by the short and curlies — to have completely in one's power
- to have mixed feelings about sth — If you have mixed feelings about something or someone, you feel uncertain about them because you can see both good and bad points about them.
- to kill two birds with one stone — If you say that doing something will kill two birds with one stone, you mean that it will enable you to achieve two things that you want to achieve, rather than just one.
- to laugh all the way to the bank — If you say that someone is laughing all the way to the bank, you mean that they are making a lot of money very easily.
- to nail your colours to the mast — If someone nails their colours to the mast, they say what they really think about something.
- transaction application language — (language) (TAL) Not "Tandem Application Language". A block-structured, procedural language optimised for use on Tandem hardware. TAL is a cross between C and Pascal and is the primary system programming language on Tandem computers. Tandem has no assembler and originally had no C or Pascal.
- turn/beat swords into plowshares — If you say that swords have been turned into plowshares or beaten into plowshares, you mean that a state of conflict between two or more groups of people has ended and a period of peace has begun.
- twente compiler generator system — (language, tool) (TCGS) A compiler generator developed at the University of Twente, The Netherlands.
- twist around one's little finger — to have easy and complete control or influence over
- uniform code of military justice — the body of laws governing members of the U.S. armed forces: superseded the Articles of War in 1951
- united states employment service — the division of the Department of Labor that supervises and coordinates the activities of state employment agencies. Abbreviation: USES.
- virtual sequential access method — Virtual Storage Access Method
- volunteers in service to america — VISTA.
- wash one's dirty linen in public — fabric woven from flax yarns.
- wear one's heart on one's sleeve — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- with your tail between your legs — If you say that you have your tail between your legs, you are emphasizing that you feel defeated and ashamed.
- workers' educational association — a charitable organization providing adult community education
- wrangell-st. elias national park — a national park in E Alaska. 12,730 sq. mi. (32,970 sq. km).