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26-letter words containing n, a, m, h, o, i

  • reformed church in america — a Protestant denomination having a Calvinist theology and originally called the Dutch Reformed Church.
  • remembrance of things past — a novel (1913–27) by Marcel Proust.
  • reticuloendothelial system — the aggregate of the phagocytic cells, including certain cells of the bone marrow, lymphatic system, liver, and spleen, that have reticular and endothelial characteristics and function in the immune system's defense against foreign bodies. Abbreviation: RES.
  • search engine optimization — the process of adjusting the content, structure, etc, of a website so that it will be displayed prominently by a search engine
  • state of the union message — an annual message to Congress in which the president reports on the state of the nation and outlines a legislative program: required by the Constitution (Article II, Section 3). Abbreviation: SOTU.
  • statistical-thermodynamics — the science that deals with average properties of the molecules, atoms, or elementary particles in random motion in a system of many such particles and relates these properties to the thermodynamic and other macroscopic properties of the system.
  • sth will take some beating — If you say that something will take some beating, you mean that it is very good and it is unlikely that anything better will be done or made.
  • tabulating machine company — (company)   The company founded in 1896 by Herman Hollerith to exploit his invention of the punched card. It became part of IBM in 1924.
  • take something for granted — If you take something for granted, you believe that it is true or accept it as normal without thinking about it.
  • take steps to do something — to undertake measures with a view to the attainment of some end
  • technological unemployment — unemployment caused by technological changes or new methods of production in an industry or business.
  • the consumers' association — a British organization which assesses and reports on new products and defends consumers' rights
  • the single european market — the free trade policy that operates between members of the European Union
  • thematic apperception test — a projective technique in which stories told by a subject about each of a series of pictures are assumed to reveal dominant needs or motivations. Abbreviation: TAT.
  • three-dimensional printing — the creation of solid objects by building up multiple layers, each layer corresponding to a plan held in a digital file
  • throw a monkey wrench into — to disrupt the orderly functioning or realization of
  • to bring something to bear — If you bring something to bear on a situation, you use it to deal with that situation.
  • to call something your own — If you have something you can call your own, it belongs only to you, rather than being controlled by or shared with someone else.
  • to catch hold of something — Hold is used in expressions such as grab hold of, catch hold of, and get hold of, to indicate that you close your hand tightly around something, for example to stop something moving or falling.
  • to come to a grinding halt — If you say that something comes to a grinding halt, you are emphasizing that it stops very suddenly, especially before it was meant to.
  • to laugh in someone's face — If someone laughs in your face, they are openly disrespectful towards you.
  • to pip someone at the post — If someone is pipped at the post or pipped to the post they are just beaten in a competition or in a race to achieve something.
  • triple combination therapy — treatment with three different drugs
  • turn something on its head — to treat or present something in a completely new and different way
  • two sides of the same coin — opposite but connected ideas
  • what someone is driving at — If you ask someone what they are driving at, you are asking what they are trying to say or what they are saying indirectly.
  • wilcoxon mann-whitney test — a statistical test of the difference between the distributions of data collected in two experimental conditions applied to unmatched groups of subjects but comparing the distributions of the ranks of the scores
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