20-letter words containing one
- africanized honeybee — killer bee.
- antidiuretic hormone — vasopressin. Abbreviation: ADH.
- antonello da messina — ?1430–?79, Italian painter, born in Sicily. His paintings include St Jerome in His Study and Portrait of a Man
- at one's convenience — at a time, or in a place or manner, suitable to one
- at one's finger tips — the tip or end of a finger.
- at someone's expense — If you do something at someone's expense, they provide the money for it.
- at someone's service — ready to serve or cooperate with someone
- be on someone's case — an instance of the occurrence, existence, etc., of something: Sailing in such a storm was a case of poor judgment.
- be set in one's ways — If you say that someone is set in their ways, you are being critical of the fact that they have fixed habits and ideas which they will not easily change, even though they may be old-fashioned.
- be someone's funeral — to be someone's problem, worry, etc. and not another's
- be there for someone — If someone is there for you, they help and support you, especially when you have problems.
- been-there done-that — an exclamation expressing familiarity and boredom with a situation, experience, etc
- blood on one's hands — If you say that someone has a person's blood on their hands, you mean that they are responsible for that person's death.
- bone mineral density — a measurement of the amount of calcium and other minerals in a segment of bone, a higher mineral content indicating a higher bone density and strength, used to detect osteoporosis or monitor its treatment.
- bring to one's knees — to force to submit or give in
- brittle bone disease — bone disorder
- bust someone's chops — Usually, chops. the jaw.
- call someone's bluff — to challenge someone to give proof of his claims
- card up one's sleeve — a plan or resource kept secret or held in reserve
- carry all before one — to win unanimous support or approval for oneself
- carry off one's feet — to fill with enthusiasm
- cast the first stone — the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- church commissioners — a group of representatives of Church and State that administers the endowments and property of the Church of England
- clip someone's wings — to restrict someone's freedom
- come back to someone — (of something forgotten) to return to someone's memory
- come to one's senses — to regain consciousness
- commissioned officer — a military officer holding a commission, such as Second Lieutenant in the British Army, Acting Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force, and officers of all ranks senior to these
- commune with oneself — to think; ponder
- conditioned response — a response that is transferred from the second to the first of a pair of stimuli. A well-known Pavlovian example is salivation by a dog when it hears a bell ring, because food has always been presented when the bell has been rung previously
- conditioned stimulus — a stimulus to which an organism has learned to make a response by classical conditioning
- confectioners' sugar — Confectioners' sugar is very fine white sugar that is used for making icing and candy.
- cook someone's goose — If you cook someone's goose, you prevent their plans from succeeding.
- coroneted fruit dove — a brightly coloured bird of the Columbidae family with a distinctive marking on its head, found in Indonesia and Papua new Guinea
- count one's chickens — If you say that someone is counting their chickens, you mean that they are assuming that they will be successful or get something, when this is not certain.
- cross someone's mind — to come suddenly or briefly to someone's mind
- cross someone's palm — to give someone money
- cross someone's path — to meet or thwart someone
- cut of someone's jib — someone's manner, behaviour, style, etc
- cut one's own throat — to be the means of one's own ruin
- diphenylene diketone — a compound used in dye manufacture
- do one's nut/go nuts — If someone goes nuts, or in British English does their nut, they become extremely angry.
- do someone a service — If you do someone a service, you do something that helps or benefits them.
- do someone's bidding — command; summons; invitation: I went there at his bidding.
- feather in one's cap — 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.
- fight for one's life — Someone who is fighting for their life is making a great effort to stay alive, either when they are being physically attacked or when they are very ill.
- fill someone's shoes — an external covering for the human foot, usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above, at, or below the ankle.
- for all one is worth — good or important enough to justify (what is specified): advice worth taking; a place worth visiting.
- force someone's hand — to force someone to act
- general practitioner — a medical practitioner whose practice is not limited to any specific branch of medicine or class of diseases. Abbreviation: G.P.
- get ahold of oneself — If you get ahold of yourself, you force yourself to become calm and sensible after a shock or in a difficult situation.
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