13-letter words starting with to
- to be precise — You say 'to be precise' to indicate that you are giving more detailed or accurate information than you have just given.
- to bear fruit — If the effort that you put into something or a particular way of doing something bears fruit, it is successful and produces good results.
- to begin with — You use to begin with when you are talking about the first stage of a situation, event, or process.
- to break even — When a company or a person running a business breaks even, they make neither a profit nor a loss.
- to break wind — If someone breaks wind, they release gas from their intestines through their anus.
- to bust a gut — To bust a gut means to work very hard trying to achieve something.
- to cap it all — to provide the finishing touch
- to catch fire — If an object or substance catches fire, it starts burning.
- to come alive — If people, places, or events come alive, they start to be lively again after a quiet period. If someone or something brings them alive, they cause them to come alive.
- to down tools — If you say that workers down tools, you mean that they stop working suddenly in order to strike or to make a protest of some kind.
- to end it all — If someone ends it all, they kill themselves.
- to fall short — If someone or something is or stops short of a place, they have not quite reached it. If they are or fall short of an amount, they have not quite achieved it.
- to get dooced — to be dismissed from one's employment because of what one has written on a website or blog
- to go apeshit — to become crazy, enraged, or out of control
- to go off air — to stop broadcasting
- to hold court — If someone holds court in a place, they are surrounded by a lot of people who are paying them a lot of attention because they are interesting or famous.
- to hold forth — If you hold forth on a subject, you speak confidently and for a long time about it, especially to a group of people.
- to keep at it — If you keep at it, you continue doing something that you have started, even if you are tired and would prefer to stop.
- to keep going — If you keep going, you continue moving along or doing something that you have started, even if you are tired and would prefer to stop.
- to keep house — If you keep house, you do the cleaning and cooking for your household, and do not go out to work.
- to keep it up — If you keep it up, you continue working or trying as hard as you have been in the past.
- to keep track — If you keep track of a situation or a person, you make sure that you have the newest and most accurate information about them all the time.
- to live a lie — If you say that someone is living a lie, you mean that in every part of their life they are hiding the truth about themselves from other people.
- to loom large — If something, especially a problem or worry looms large, it occupies a lot of your thoughts and seems important.
- to lose heart — If you lose heart, you become sad and depressed and are no longer interested in something, especially because it is not progressing as you would like.
- to lose touch — If you lose touch with someone, you gradually stop writing, telephoning, or visiting them.
- to one's cost — If you know something to your cost, you know it because of an unpleasant experience that you have had.
- to one's face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- to one's feet — to a standing position
- to one's mind — in one's opinion
- to one's name — a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- to perfection — impeccably, perfectly
- to play cupid — If you say that someone is playing cupid, you mean that they are trying to bring two people together to start a romantic relationship.
- to play havoc — If one thing plays havoc with another or wreaks havoc on it, it prevents it from continuing or functioning as normal, or damages it.
- to play hooky — If a child plays hooky, they stay away from school without permission.
- to raise hell — If you say that someone raises hell, you are emphasizing that they protest strongly and angrily about a situation in order to persuade other people to correct it or improve it.
- to run a risk — If you run the risk of doing or experiencing something undesirable, you do something knowing that the undesirable thing might happen as a result.
- to stand firm — If someone stands firm, they refuse to change their mind about something.
- to start with — To start with means at the very first stage of an event or process.
- to take cover — If you take cover, you shelter from gunfire, bombs, or the weather.
- to tempt fate — If someone says that something they say or do is tempting fate or is tempting providence, they mean they are worried that it may cause the good luck they have had so far to end.
- to the effect — with the purport or meaning
- to the ground — completely; absolutely
- to the letter — a written or printed communication addressed to a person or organization and usually transmitted by mail.
- to the marrow — deeply
- to the utmost — If you say that something is done to the utmost, you are emphasizing that it is done to the greatest extent, amount, or degree possible.
- toasting fork — a long-handled fork used for cooking or toasting frankfurters, marshmallows, bread, etc., usually over an open fire.
- toastmistress — a woman who presides at a dinner, introduces the after-dinner speakers, and often proposes toasts.
- tobaccanalian — a smoker
- tobacco heart — a functional disorder of the heart, characterized by a rapid and often irregular pulse, caused by excessive use of tobacco.
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