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25-letter words containing the

  • off the top of one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • on the big/small etc side — If you say that something is on the small side, you are saying politely that you think it is slightly too small. If you say that someone is on the young side, you are saying politely that you think they are slightly too young.
  • on the edge of one's seat — If you say that someone is on the edge of their seat or chair, you mean that they are very interested in what is happening or what is going to happen.
  • on the horns of a dilemma — one of the bony, permanent, hollow paired growths, often curved and pointed, that project from the upper part of the head of certain ungulate mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes.
  • on the side of the angels — If you say that someone is on the side of the angels, you believe very strongly that what they are doing is right.
  • on the spur of the moment — a U -shaped device that slips over and straps to the heel of a boot and has a blunt, pointed, or roweled projection at the back for use by a mounted rider to urge a horse forward.
  • on the tip of your tongue — If a comment or question is on the tip of your tongue, you really want to say it or ask it, but you decide not to say it.
  • on the understanding that — with the condition that; providing
  • orpheus in the underworld — a classical operetta; the French name is Orphée aux enfers
  • over-the-counter medicine — An over-the-counter medicine is a medicine that may be sold without a doctor's prescription.
  • pharmacotherapeutic group — Drugs and agents are categorized into pharmacotherapeutic groups based on which diseases they are designed to treat.
  • pick/take up the gauntlet — If you pick up the gauntlet or take up the gauntlet, you accept the challenge that someone has made.
  • put sb/sth/swh on the map — If you say that someone or something put a person, thing, or place on the map, you approve of the fact that they made it become well-known and important.
  • raise (or lower) the bar — raise (or lower) the standard of judgment
  • read someone the riot act — If someone in authority reads you the riot act, they tell you that you will be punished unless you start behaving properly.
  • ruffle someone's feathers — 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.
  • saddle block (anesthesia) — a method of spinal anesthesia, often used during obstetric delivery, that produces anesthesia in that area of the body that would be in contact with a saddle during horseback riding
  • saint joseph of arimathea — a wealthy member of the Sanhedrin, who obtained the body of Jesus after the Crucifixion and laid it in his own tomb (Matthew 27:57–60). Feast day: Mar 17 or July 31
  • shoot oneself in the foot — to damage one's own cause inadvertently
  • slip/fall through the net — You use slip through the net or fall through the net to describe a situation where people are not properly cared for by the system that is intended to help them.
  • sympathetic introspection — a study of human conduct in which the investigator imagines himself or herself engaged in that conduct.
  • take the queen's shilling — to enlist in the army
  • take the sting out of sth — If something takes the sting out of a situation, it makes it less unpleasant.
  • take up the cudgels (for) — to come to the defense (of)
  • tess of the d'urbervilles — a novel (1891) by Thomas Hardy.
  • the ball is in sb's court — If you say that the ball is in someone's court, you mean that it is his or her responsibility to take the next action or decision in a situation.
  • the ball is in your court — you are obliged to make the next move
  • the calm before the storm — You can use the calm before the storm to refer to a quiet period in which there is little or no activity, before a period in which there is a lot of trouble or intense activity.
  • the department of defense — the United States federal department concerned with national security
  • the empire state building — a very high skyscraper in New York City
  • the first epistle of john — an epistle attributed to the apostle John which counters claims that Jesus Christ came only in spirit and not in the flesh
  • the high priestess of sth — if you call a woman the high priestess of a particular thing, you are saying in a slightly mocking way that she is considered by people to be expert in that thing
  • the industrial revolution — the transformation in the 18th and 19th centuries of first Britain and then other W European countries and the US into industrial nations
  • the knives are out for sb — If a lot of people want something unpleasant to happen to someone, for example if they want them to lose their job, you can say that the knives are out for that person.
  • the leaning tower of pisa — the bell tower of Pisa Cathedral
  • the length and breadth of — If you say that someone does something or something happens throughout or across the length and breadth of a place, you are emphasizing that it happens everywhere in that place.
  • the meteorological office — a British Government department supplying weather forecasts
  • the mother of parliaments — the British Parliament: the model and creator of many other Parliaments
  • the politically incorrect — politically incorrect people considered collectively
  • the protestant work ethic — a belief in the moral value of work, associated with Protestant Christianity
  • the sands are running out — there is not much time left before death or the end
  • the scholastic profession — the profession of teaching
  • the thin end of the wedge — If you say that something is the thin end of the wedge, you mean that it appears to be unimportant at the moment, but that it is the beginning of a bigger, more harmful development.
  • the third epistle of john — an epistle attributed to the apostle John and addressed to a man called Gaius, who is praised in the letter
  • the trash heap of history — a figurative or imaginative place where forgotten things or people go
  • there are no flies on him — he is no fool
  • thermal imaging equipment — heat-sensitive devices that can detect or provide images of people or things
  • thermodynamic equilibrium — the condition of an isolated system in which the quantities that specify its properties, such as pressure, temperature, etc, all remain unchanged
  • thermodynamic temperature — temperature defined in terms of the laws of thermodynamics and not in terms of the properties of any real material. It is usually expressed on the Kelvin scale
  • thermoelectromotive force — the electromotive force developed by the thermoelectric effect.
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