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16-letter words containing one

  • lincoln reckoner — An interactive mathematics program including matrix operations, written about 1965. It ran on the TX-2.
  • lonely hearts ad — an advertisement placed by someone who is trying to find a lover or a friend
  • lose one's nerve — to become timid, esp failing to perform some audacious act
  • lose one's shirt — a long- or short-sleeved garment for the upper part of the body, usually lightweight and having a collar and a front opening.
  • lose one's voice — If you lose your voice, you cannot speak for a while because of an illness.
  • meet one's maker — to die
  • middle stone age — the Mesolithic period.
  • miss one's guess — to fail to guess or predict accurately
  • money laundering — Money laundering is the crime of processing stolen money through a legitimate business or sending it abroad to a foreign bank, to hide the fact that the money was illegally obtained.
  • money of account — a monetary denomination used in reckoning, especially one not issued as a coin, as the U.S. mill.
  • nick someone for — to defraud someone to the extent of
  • non-commissioned — A non-commissioned officer in the armed forces is someone with a rank such as corporal or sergeant who used to have a lower rank, rather than an officer of higher rank who has been given a commission.
  • nonharmonic tone — a tone sounding with a chord of which it is not a chord tone.
  • off one's rocker — Also called runner. one of the curved pieces on which a cradle or a rocking chair rocks.
  • off one's stroke — performing or working less well than usual
  • off-by-one error — (programming)   (Or "Obi-Wan error") An exceedingly common error induced in many ways, such as by starting at zero when you should have started at one or vice-versa, or by writing "< N" instead of "<= N" or vice-versa. Often confounded with fencepost error, which is properly a particular subtype of it. The term zeroth corrects the linguistic off-by-one error of, e.g., referring to the "1st" element of an array whose indexes start from zero.
  • on the telephone — having a phone conversation
  • one and the same — When two or more people or things are thought to be separate and you say that they are one and the same, you mean that they are in fact one single person or thing.
  • one for the book — a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
  • one for the road — a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway.
  • one in a million — person: unique
  • one man one vote — One man one vote or one person one vote is a system of voting in which every person in a group or country has the right to cast their vote, and in which each individual's vote is counted and has equal value.
  • one with another — on average
  • one's cup of tea — the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
  • one's level best — the best one can do
  • one's salad days — If you refer to your salad days, you are referring to a period of your life when you were young and inexperienced.
  • one-armed bandit — slot machine (def 1).
  • one-party system — a political system in which only one party is allowed
  • one-way function — (cryptography, mathematics)   A function which is easy to compute but whose inverse is very difficult to compute. Such functions have important applications in cryptography, specifically in public-key cryptography. See also: trapdoor function.
  • one/a false move — If you say that one false move will cause a disaster, you mean that you or someone else must not make any mistakes because the situation is so difficult or dangerous.
  • oneida community — a society of religious perfectionists established by John Humphrey Noyes, in 1848 at Oneida, N.Y., on the theory that sin can be eliminated through social reform: dissolved and reorganized in 1881 as a joint-stock company.
  • out of the money — If an investment is out of the money, it would be a loss if it was sold.
  • out on one's ear — dismissed unceremoniously
  • outsmart oneself — to have one's efforts at cunning or cleverness result in one's own disadvantage
  • pique oneself on — to be proud of
  • pitch-cone angle — (in a bevel gear) the apex angle of the truncated cone (pitch cone) which forms the reference surface on which the teeth of a bevel gear are cut
  • play a lone hand — to operate without assistance
  • play one's cards — to carry out one's plans; take action (esp in the phrase play one's cards right)
  • poisoned chalice — If you refer to a job or an opportunity as a poisoned chalice, you mean that it seems to be very attractive but you believe it will lead to failure.
  • prairie schooner — a type of covered wagon, similar to but smaller than the Conestoga wagon, used by pioneers in crossing the prairies and plains of North America.
  • pride oneself on — to be proud of
  • prisoner of bill — (humour)   (PoB) A derisory term, in use generally among Unix users, for anyone who uses Microsoft products either because they don't know there is anything better (i.e. Unix) or because they would be incapable of working anything more complex (i.e. Unix). The interesting and widespread presumption among users of the term is that (at least at the time of writing, 1998) using anything other than Unix or a Microsoft OS (whether VMS, Macintosh, Amiga) is so eccentric a choice as to be at least somewhat praiseworthy.
  • protection money — law: criminal fee
  • put one's oar in — to interfere or interrupt
  • put someone wise — having the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or right; possessing discernment, judgment, or discretion.
  • rack one's brain — If you rack your brains, you try very hard to think of something.
  • radio microphone — a microphone incorporating a radio transmitter so that the user can move around freely
  • rag-and-bone man — a peddler who buys and sells used clothes, rags, etc.; junkman.
  • redundancy money — a sum of money given by an employer to an employee who has been made redundant: usually calculated on the basis of the employee's rate of pay and length of service
  • remember oneself — to recover one's good manners after a lapse; stop behaving badly
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