18-letter words containing one
- accident proneness — the unconscious tendency, thought to exist in some people, to involve themselves in a large number of accidents
- acoustic phonetics — the branch of phonetics concerned with the acoustic properties of human speech
- almoner's cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
- apple of one's eye — a person or thing that is very precious or much loved
- at one's wit's end — the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad: the end of a street; the end of a rope.
- at one's wits' end — at a loss to know how to proceed
- at someone's elbow — very close to someone; easy to reach
- auditory phonetics — the branch of phonetics concerned with the perception of speech sounds by humans
- autonomous phoneme — a phoneme that is defined or determined by its contrast in sound with other phonemes, without reference to its role in morphology or any other level of linguistic analysis beyond the phonetic level.
- back to square one — If you are back to square one, you have to start dealing with something from the beginning again because the way you were dealing with it has failed.
- baritone saxophone — the second lowest instrument in the family of saxophones
- be full of oneself — If you say to someone 'you're full of yourself', you disapprove of them because they appear very pleased with themselves, thinking that they are very clever, special, or important.
- be lost on someone — If advice or a comment is lost on someone, they do not understand it or they pay no attention to it.
- be sure of oneself — If you are sure of yourself, you are very confident about your own abilities or opinions.
- bend someone's ear — to speak at length to an unwilling listener, esp to voice one's troubles
- beyond one's depth — in water deeper than one is tall
- bone of contention — If a particular matter or issue is a bone of contention, it is the subject of a disagreement or argument.
- breathe one's last — When someone breathes their last, they die.
- bring someone luck — If you say that something brings bad luck or brings someone good luck, you believe that it has an influence on whether good or bad things happen to them.
- burn one's bridges — If you burn your bridges, you do something which forces you to continue with a particular course of action, and makes it impossible for you to return to an earlier situation or relationship.
- burn one's fingers — to suffer from having meddled or been rash
- catch one's breath — When you catch your breath while you are doing something energetic, you stop for a short time so that you can start breathing normally again.
- cellular telephone — a mobile phone
- change one's spots — to reform one's character
- chew someone's ear — to reprimand severely
- chloroacetophenone — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous solid, C 8 H 7 ClO, used in solution as a tear gas. Abbreviation: CN.
- chlorohydroquinone — a white to light-tan, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 6 H 3 Cl(OH) 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis and as a developer in photography.
- chromatic semitone — the pitch difference between one note and its sharpened or flattened equivalent
- clean up one's act — to start to behave in a responsible manner
- come someone's way — to come within someone's scope or range; come to someone
- conditioned reflex — a reflex in which the response (e.g., secretion of saliva in a dog) is occasioned by a secondary stimulus (e.g., the ringing of a bell) repeatedly associated with the primary stimulus (e.g., the sight of meat)
- cordless telephone — a portable battery-powered telephone with a short-range radio link to a fixed base unit
- cry one's eyes out — to weep bitterly
- crystal microphone — a microphone that uses a piezoelectric crystal to convert sound energy into electrical energy
- cut one's eyeteeth — to become experienced or sophisticated
- cut one's teeth on — to use at an early age or stage
- deliver oneself of — to speak with deliberation or at length
- demilitarized zone — an area from which military presence or function has been removed
- dig in one's heels — to refuse to give up or modify one's opinion, policy, attitude, etc., esp. when faced with opposition
- dig one's heels in — to refuse stubbornly to move or be persuaded
- do one's own thing — a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
- do oneself justice — If you do yourself justice, you do something as well as you are capable of doing it.
- down on one's luck — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- each and every one — all
- fabric conditioner — a product used when washing clothes to make them feel softer
- fall on one's feet — a plural of foot.
- feather one's nest — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
- fill someone in on — to provide someone with additional facts, details, etc. about
- fire and brimstone — When people talk about fire and brimstone, they are referring to hell and how they think people are punished there after death.
- fire-and-brimstone — threatening punishment in the hereafter: a fire-and-brimstone sermon.
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