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21-letter words containing o, n, e, s, t

  • get into the swing of — If you get into the swing of something, you become very involved in it and enjoy what you are doing.
  • get on someone's case — an instance of the occurrence, existence, etc., of something: Sailing in such a storm was a case of poor judgment.
  • get on someone's wick — to cause irritation to a person
  • get on the scoresheet — In football, rugby, and some other sports, if a player gets on the scoresheet, he or she scores one or more goals, tries, or points.
  • get one's breath back — When you get your breath back after doing something energetic, you start breathing normally again.
  • get/have the goods on — If you get the goods or have the goods on someone, you have evidence that they have done something wrong or criminal.
  • gideons international — an interdenominational lay society organized in 1899 to place Bibles in hotel rooms.
  • give place to someone — to make room for or be superseded by someone
  • give sb the runaround — If someone gives you the runaround, they deliberately do not give you all the information or help that you want, and send you to another person or place to get it.
  • give someone a tinkle — to call someone on the telephone
  • give someone the best — to concede someone's superiority
  • give someone the bird — to tell someone rudely to depart; scoff at; hiss
  • give someone the gate — a movable barrier, usually on hinges, closing an opening in a fence, wall, or other enclosure.
  • give someone the slip — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
  • go someone one better — of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
  • gobject introspection — (programming)   A GNOME project that defines a syntax for introspection annotation pragmas to be used in the GObject library source code. Rather than actual introspection, these are intended to allow automatic generation of bindings (APIs) to expose the library to higher-level languages. The sort of information provided is the type and direction (in, out, inout) of function parameters and the responsibility for freeing memory used by data structures.
  • goldbach's conjecture — the conjecture that every even number greater than two is the sum of two prime numbers
  • got what one deserved — If you say that someone got what they deserved, you mean that they deserved the bad thing that happened to them, and you have no sympathy for them.
  • government securities — securities issued by the US Government
  • great smoky mountains — the W part of the Appalachians, in W North Carolina and E Tennessee. Highest peak: Clingman's Dome, 2024 m (6642 ft)
  • greenwich observatory — the national astronomical observatory of Great Britain, housed in a castle in E Sussex; formerly located at Greenwich.
  • have a strong stomach — not to be prone to nausea
  • have one's hands tied — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • help a person on with — to assist a person in the putting on of (clothes)
  • henry steele commager — Henry Steele, 1902–98, U.S. historian, author, and teacher.
  • heterogeneous network — (networking)   A network running multiple network layer protocols such as DECnet, IP, IPX, XNS.
  • highest common factor — greatest common divisor. Abbreviation: H.C.F.
  • homogeneous catalysis — Homogeneous catalysis is catalysis in which the catalyst takes part in the reaction that it increases.
  • homolosine projection — an equal-area projection of the world, distorting ocean areas in order to minimize the distortion of the continents.
  • horizontal stabilizer — the horizontal surface, usually fixed, of an aircraft empennage, to which the elevator is hinged.
  • horns and halo effect — a tendency to allow one's judgement of another person, esp in a job interview, to be unduly influenced by an unfavourable (horns) or favourable (halo) first impression based on appearances
  • house of prostitution — a brothel.
  • hubble classification — a method of classifying galaxies depending on whether they are elliptical, spiral, barred spiral, or irregular
  • hyperkinetic disorder — another name for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
  • hysterosalpingography — (medicine) X-ray examination of the uterus and oviducts following injection of a radiopaque substance.
  • ibm customer engineer — (job)   (CE) A hardware guy from IBM.
  • identical proposition — a proposition in which the subject and predicate have the same meaning, as, “That which is mortal is not immortal.”.
  • identification papers — documents that serve to establish someone's identity
  • immediate constituent — one of the usually two largest constituents of a construction: The immediate constituents of He ate his dinner are he and ate his dinner; of ate his dinner are ate and his dinner; etc. Abbreviation: IC.
  • immunoelectrophoresis — a technique for the separation and identification of mixtures of proteins, consisting of electrophoresis followed by immunodiffusion.
  • immunohistochemically — By means of or in regard to immunohistochemistry.
  • in (or out of) phase — in (or not in) a state of exactly parallel movements, oscillations, etc.; in (or not in) synchronization
  • in a state of undress — If someone is in a state of undress, they do not have all their clothes on.
  • in bad/good/etc taste — If you say that something that is said or done is in bad taste or in poor taste, you mean that it is offensive, often because it concerns death or sex and is inappropriate for the situation. If you say that something is in good taste, you mean that it is not offensive and that it is appropriate for the situation.
  • in good circumstances — (of a person) in a good financial situation
  • in more ways than one — You say in more ways than one to indicate that what you have said is intended to have more than one meaning.
  • in no uncertain terms — If you say that someone tells a person something in no uncertain terms, you are emphasizing that they say it strongly and clearly so that there is no doubt about what they mean.
  • in one's shirtsleeves — not wearing a jacket
  • in phase/out of phase — If two things are out of phase with each other, they are not working or happening together as they should. If two things are in phase, they are working or occurring together as they should.
  • in someone's judgment — in someone's opinion
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