20-letter words containing t, o, p, c, h
- to pull your punches — If you say that someone does not pull their punches when they are criticizing a person or thing, you mean that they say exactly what they think, even though this might upset or offend people.
- to scrape the barrel — If you say that someone is scraping the barrel, or scraping the bottom of the barrel, you disapprove of the fact that they are using or doing something of extremely poor quality.
- transposition cipher — a cipher that rearranges the letters of the plain text in a different sequence.
- triple witching hour — the last hour of trading on the New York Stock Exchange on the four Fridays each year when stock options, stock index futures, and options on such futures simultaneously expire: regarded as a time of extreme volatility in trading.
- tropospheric scatter — transmission of radio frequency signals that have been scattered from irregularities in the troposphere to locations hundreds of kilometers distant.
- trumpet call for sth — a signal for something
- under the microscope — If you say that something is under the microscope, you mean that it is being studied very closely, usually because it is believed that something is wrong with it.
- white bush (scallop) — a variety of summer squash having a saucer-shaped white fruit, scalloped around the edges
- with a pinch of salt — without wholly believing; sceptically
- without prejudice to — If you take an action without prejudice to an existing situation, your action does not change or harm that situation.