18-letter words containing the
- (go) off the rails — (to go) off the proper course
- (in) the worst way — very much; greatly
- a bird in the hand — A bird in the hand is something that you already have and do not want to risk losing by trying to get something else.
- a flash in the pan — If you describe an achievement or success as a flash in the pan, you mean that it is unlikely to be repeated and is not an indication of future achievements or success.
- a foot in the door — an action, appointment, etc, that provides an initial step towards a desired goal, esp one that is not easily attainable
- a leap in the dark — an action performed without knowledge of the consequences
- a pain in the arse — In informal English, if you call someone or something a pain or a pain in the neck, you mean that they are very annoying or irritating. Expressions such as a pain in the arse and a pain in the backside in British English, or a pain in the ass and a pain in the butt in American English, are also used, but most people consider them offensive.
- a place in the sun — If you say that someone has found their place in the sun, you mean that they are in a job or a situation where they will be happy and have everything that they want.
- a shot in the dark — If you describe something someone says or does as a shot in the dark or a stab in the dark, you mean they are guessing that what they say is correct or that what they do will be successful.
- a slap in the face — If you describe something that someone does as a slap in the face, you mean that it shocks or upsets you because it shows that they do not support you or respect you.
- a slap on the back — congratulation
- aerothermodynamics — the study of the exchange of heat between solids and gases, esp of the heating effect on aircraft flying through the air at very high speeds
- aesthetic distance — a degree of detachment from or nonidentification with the characters or circumstances of a work of art, permitting the formation of judgments based on aesthetic rather than extra-aesthetic criteria.
- ahead of the curve — People, products or ideas that are ahead of the curve are more advanced or modern than others of their kind.
- all along the line — at every stage in a series
- all over the place — If something is happening all over the place, it is happening in many different places.
- all the better for — improved as a result of
- all the king's men — a novel (1946) by Robert Penn Warren.
- all the same to me — If you say 'It's all the same to me', you mean that you do not care which of several things happens or is chosen.
- along the lines of — similar to
- angel of the north — a steel sculpture of an angel with outstretched wings, created in 1998 by British sculptor Antony Gormley, which stands on a hilltop outside Gateshead, NE England. It stands 20 m (85 ft) high and has a wingspan of 54 m (175 ft)
- antipatheticalness — The state or quality of being antipathetical.
- aperture synthesis — an array of radio telescopes used in radio astronomy to simulate a single large-aperture telescope. Some such instruments use movable dishes while others use fixed dishes
- armed to the teeth — Someone who is armed to the teeth is armed with a lot of weapons or with very effective weapons.
- as the case may be — according to the circumstances
- at the instance of — at the suggestion or instigation of
- at the last minute — almost too late
- at the risk of sth — If you do something at the risk of something unpleasant happening, you do it even though you know that the unpleasant thing might happen as a result.
- attribution theory — the theory that tries to explain how people link actions and emotions to particular causes, both internal and external
- australopithecines — Plural form of australopithecine.
- back in the saddle — at work again
- bats-in-the-belfry — a hairy Eurasian campanulaceous plant, Campanula trachelium, with bell-shaped blue-purple flowers
- be the image of sb — If you are the image of someone else, you look very much like them.
- before the present — See B.P (def 4).
- bel and the dragon — a book of the Apocrypha that is included as chapter 14 of Daniel in the Douay Bible.
- biological therapy — biotherapy
- birds of a feather — If you refer to two people as birds of a feather, you mean that they have the same interests or are very similar.
- bloggs family, the — An imaginary family consisting of Fred and Mary Bloggs and their children. Used as a standard example in knowledge representation to show the difference between extensional and intensional objects. For example, every occurrence of "Fred Bloggs" is the same unique person, whereas occurrences of "person" may refer to different people. Members of the Bloggs family have been known to pop up in bizarre places such as the DEC Telephone Directory. Compare Mbogo, Dr. Fred.
- bobo the webmonkey — (web) What B1FF was to BITNET users, Bobo the Webmonkey is to webmonkeys - the mythical prototype of incompetent web designers everywhere. In fact, Bobo may be what B1FF became when he grew up. Bobo knows about HTML only what he has learned from viewing the source of other people's Web pages. Bobo doesn't know what a MIME type is, even though someone gave him a hardcopy of the FOLDOC entry for it. Bobo may have used an HTML code validator http://validator.w3.org/ before, but isn't sure. Bobo doesn't know what the difference between GIF and JPEG is. He thinks PNG is a foreign country. All the pages Bobo has designed say "Welcome to [organisation] online!" at the top, and say "click here!" at least three times per page. Bobo has used Photoshop before; he doesn't understand why people keep asking if he's ever been tested for color-blindness. Bobo never got that "its" / "it's" distinction real clear, as you can tell from his pages. Bobo likes
- bolt from the blue — If a piece of news comes like a bolt from the blue, it is completely unexpected and very surprising.
- bore the pants off — to bore extremely
- born to the purple — being of royal or high birth
- bottom-of-the-line — being the cheapest item of its kind made by a manufacturer; produced as inexpensively as possible (opposed to top-of-the-line): bottom-of-the-line merchandise that has no warranty.
- break the internet — to cause a large number of people to attempt to access the internet
- breathe one's last — When someone breathes their last, they die.
- brothers karamazov — a novel (1880) by Dostoevsky.
- burst at the seams — to break, break open, or fly apart with sudden violence: The bitter cold caused the pipes to burst.
- call to the colors — call or order to serve in the armed forces
- catastrophe theory — a mathematical theory that classifies surfaces according to their form
- catcher in the rye — a novel (1951) by J. D. Salinger.
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