32-letter words containing t, h, e, l
- the same old story/the old story — If you say it's the same old story or it's the old story, you mean that something unpleasant or undesirable seems to happen again and again.
- there's no time like the present — If you say 'There's no time like the present', you are suggesting to someone that they should do something now, not later.
- time-of-flight mass spectroscopy — a technique for separating ions according to the time required for them to traverse a set distance.
- to (the best of) one's knowledge — as far as one knows; within the range of one's information
- 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.
- to throw off the shackles of sth — to reject something or free oneself from it because it was preventing one from doing what one wanted to do
- 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.
- virtual sequential access method — Virtual Storage Access Method
- 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.
- weighted average cost of capital — The weighted average cost of capital is the cost of capital that is adjusted according to the percentages of debt financing and equity financing.
- 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.