28-letter words containing s, h, i, t, l, e
- to slip through your fingers — If someone or something slips through your fingers, you just fail to catch them, get them, or keep them.
- to take something lying down — If someone takes an insult or attack lying down, they accept it without protesting.
- until sb is blue in the face — If you say that someone can do something until they are blue in the face, you are emphasizing that however much they do it, it will not make any difference.
- walden, or life in the woods — a book of philosophical observations (1854) by Thoreau.
- within an inch of one's life — almost to the point of death
- zeroth law of thermodynamics — the principle that any two systems in thermal equilibrium with a third system are in thermal equilibrium with each other. Compare law of thermodynamics (def 2).