21-letter words containing the
- a fly in the ointment — If you describe someone or something as a fly in the ointment, you think they spoil a situation and prevent it being as successful as you had hoped.
- a piece of the action — If someone wants to have a piece of the action or a slice of the action, they want to take part in an exciting activity or situation, usually in order to make money or become more important.
- a rap on the knuckles — If someone in authority gives you a rap on the knuckles, they criticize you or blame you for doing something they think is wrong.
- a shot across the bow — If you describe someone's actions as a shot across the bows of another person, you mean that it is a warning to that person to stop or change what they are doing.
- anaesthetic awareness — the gaining of consciousness by an anaesthetized patient during a surgical operation
- anointing of the sick — a sacrament in which a person who is seriously ill or dying is anointed by a priest with consecrated oil
- apothecaries' measure — a system of liquid volume measure used in pharmacy in which 60 minims equal 1 fluid drachm, 8 fluid drachms equal 1 fluid ounce, and 20 fluid ounces equal 1 pint
- at the end of the day — You say at the end of the day when you are talking about what happens after a long series of events or what appears to be the case after you have considered the relevant facts.
- athenaeus of attaleia — Greek physician in Rome, fl. a.d. c40–65.
- away with the fairies — out of touch with reality
- be in the melting pot — If something is in the melting pot, you do not know what is going to happen to it.
- be on the danger list — to be critically ill in hospital
- been there, done that — in or at that place (opposed to here): She is there now.
- behind the eight ball — in a difficult situation; snookered
- blot on the landscape — If you describe something such as a building as a blot on the landscape, you mean that you think it is very ugly and spoils an otherwise attractive place.
- blow the whistle (on) — to report or inform (on)
- bow to the inevitable — If someone bows to the inevitable and does something that they do not want to do, they do it, because circumstances force them to do it.
- break the fourth wall — (esp of a character in a television programme, film, or play) to refer to, acknowledge, or address the audience, usually for comedic effect or as an avante-garde technique
- burn the midnight oil — to work or study late into the night
- bursting at the seams — If a place is very full, you can say that it is bursting at the seams.
- catherine of braganza — 1638–1705, wife of Charles II of England, daughter of John IV of Portugal
- caviar to the general — a thing appealing only to a highly cultivated taste: Hamlet II, ii
- central limit theorem — any of several theorems stating that the sum of a number of random variables obeying certain conditions will assume a normal distribution as the number of variables becomes large.
- church-rosser theorem — (theory) A property of a reduction system that states that if an expression can be reduced by zero or more reduction steps to either expression M or expression N then there exists some other expression to which both M and N can be reduced. This implies that there is a unique normal form for any expression since M and N cannot be different normal forms because the theorem says they can be reduced to some other expression and normal forms are irreducible by definition. It does not imply that a normal form is reachable, only that if reduction terminates it will reach a unique normal form.
- clerk to the justices — (in England) a legally qualified person who sits in court with lay justices to advise them on points of law
- come in from the cold — to come out of exile, isolation, etc.; resume an active role
- come/get to the point — When someone comes to the point or gets to the point, they start talking about the thing that is most important to them.
- completing the square — a method, usually of solving quadratic equations, by which a quadratic expression, as x 2 − 4 x + 3, is written as the sum or difference of a perfect square and a constant, x 2 − 4 x + 4 + 3 − 4 = (x − 2) 2 − 1, by addition and subtraction of appropriate constant terms.
- constantine the great — (Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus"the Great") a.d. 288?–337, Roman emperor 324–337: named Constantinople as the new capital; legally sanctioned Christian worship.
- cornell theory center — (CTC) One of four supercomputing centers funded by the US National Science Foundation. The CTC also receives funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Institutes of Health, New York State, IBM Corporation, and other members of the center's Corporate Research Institute.
- correspondence theory — the theory of truth that a statement is rendered true by the existence of a fact with corresponding elements and a similar structure.
- dance to another tune — to alter one's actions or opinions as a result of changed conditions
- dead from the neck up — stupid or unintelligent
- defender of the faith — the title conferred upon Henry VIII by Pope Leo X in 1521 in recognition of the King's pamphlet attacking Luther's doctrines and retained by subsequent monarchs of England
- desire under the elms — a play (1924) by Eugene O'Neill.
- drop the handkerchief — a children's game in which all the players but one stand in a circle facing inward, while that one player stealthily drops a handkerchief behind a player in the circle who must pursue and attempt to catch the one who dropped the handkerchief before the latter reaches the vacated place.
- empty the wastebasket — If you empty the wastebasket, you remove its contents and put them in the trash.
- enter into the spirit — If you enter into the spirit of something, you take part in it in an enthusiastic way.
- ethernet private line — (networking) (EPL) A data service defined by the Metro Ethernet Forum, providing a point-to-point Ethernet connection between a pair of dedicated User-Network Interfaces (UNIs), with a high degree of transparency.
- ethics of the fathers — a treatise of the Mishnah that comprises six chapters and consists chiefly of proverbs, aphorisms, and principles of ethics, law, and religion.
- fermat's last theorem — the unproved theorem that the equation xn + yn = zn has no solution for x, y, z nonzero integers when n is greater than 2.
- flip someone the bird — give someone the finger (see phrase under finger)
- for the benefit of sb — If you say that someone is doing something for the benefit of a particular person, you mean that they are doing it for that person.
- frankfort on the main — a city in W central Germany, on the Main River.
- frankfort on the oder — a city in NE Germany, on the Oder River.
- general of the armies — a special rank held by John J. Pershing, equivalent to general of the army.
- gentleman of the road — a highwayman.
- gestalt psychotherapy — a therapy devised in the US in the 1960s in which patients are encouraged to concentrate on the immediate present and to express their true feelings
- get in under the wire — to accomplish something with little time to spare
- get into the swing of — If you get into the swing of something, you become very involved in it and enjoy what you are doing.
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