20-letter words containing one
- get one's finger out — to begin or speed up activity, esp after initial delay or slackness
- get one's hackles up — to become tense with anger; bristle
- get one's teeth into — to become engrossed in
- get someone in wrong — to bring someone into disfavor
- get someone's number — a numeral or group of numerals.
- get under one's skin — the external covering or integument of an animal body, especially when soft and flexible.
- give one's right arm — to be prepared to make any sacrifice
- give someone the air — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- give someone the eye — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- go to someone's head — to confuse, excite, or intoxicate someone
- hang up one's spikes — to retire, as from a professional sport
- have had one's chips — to be defeated, condemned to die, killed, etc
- herringbone bridging — Carpentry. cross bridging.
- hold one's head high — to conduct oneself in a proud and confident manner
- honeysuckle ornament — anthemion.
- human growth hormone — somatotropin. Abbreviation: hGH.
- in/to someone's eyes — You use expressions such as in his eyes or to her eyes to indicate that you are reporting someone's opinion and that other people might think differently.
- japanese honeysuckle — a climbing honeysuckle, Lonicera japonica, introduced into the eastern U.S. from Asia, having fragrant, white flowers that fade to yellow.
- jerk someone's chain — to tease, mislead, or harass someone
- keep one's eyes open — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- keep one's pecker up — If you tell someone to keep their pecker up, you are encouraging them to be cheerful in a difficult situation.
- laugh one's head off — Phrases such as laugh your head off and scream your head off can be used to emphasize that someone is laughing or screaming a lot or very loudly.
- lavaliere microphone — a small microphone that hangs around the neck of a performer or speaker.
- lead someone a dance — to cause someone continued worry and exasperation; play up
- lead with one's chin — to act so imprudently as to invite disaster
- let someone off with — to give (a light punishment) to someone
- live on one's nerves — If someone is living on their nerves, they are continually worried and anxious about the situation that they are in.
- lonely hearts column — the part of a newspaper or magazine where lonely hearts ads appear
- lump in one's throat — the passage from the mouth to the stomach or to the lungs, including the pharynx, esophagus, larynx, and trachea.
- make eyes at someone — If you make eyes at someone, you look at them in a way which shows that you find them attractive and which is intended to get their attention.
- make love to someone — to have sexual intercourse with someone
- measure one's length — to fall, lie, or be thrown down at full length
- medical practitioner — doctor
- methyl propyl ketone — a colorless, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 5 H 1 0 O, used chiefly as a solvent, especially in lacquers.
- methyl styryl ketone — benzylidene acetone.
- mobile phone chicken — a highly dangerous game in which a person is challenged to perform a hazardous stunt which he or she films with a camera phone
- monkey on one's back — any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
- multipart stationery — continuous stationery comprising two or more sheets, either carbonless or with carbon paper between the sheets
- near someone's heart — dear or important to someone
- north temperate zone — the part of the earth's surface between the tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle.
- nummulitic limestone — limestone composed predominantly of fossil nummulites.
- on everyone's tongue — prevailing as common gossip
- on one's own account — If you take part in a business activity on your own account, you do it for yourself, and not as a representative or employee of a company.
- on someone's account — Your feelings on someone's account are the feelings you have about what they have experienced or might experience, especially when you imagine yourself to be in their situation.
- one's heart's desire — If you say that someone or something is your heart's desire, you mean that you want that person or thing very much.
- one's misspent youth — the period when one is young and spend's one's time doing foolish, bad, or frivolous things
- one's spiritual home — Your spiritual home is the place where you feel that you belong, usually because your ideas or attitudes are the same as those of the people who live there.
- partitioned data set — (file format) (PDS) A data set on an IBM mainframe that contains members, each of which acts like a separate data set. Partitioned data sets are more space-efficient than individual data sets, because they can put more than one data set on a track. They are also used to hold libraries, with one function per member. The syntax for a member is NAME.OF.PDS(MEMBER) although some systems (such as Phoenix) could use NAME.OF.PDS:MEMBER Original PDSes were of fixed size, and needed frequent compression to recover space after deleting or changing members. Newer PDS/E Extended PDSes do not have this problem.
- pass in one's marble — to die
- pick someone's brain — to obtain information or ideas from someone