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18-letter words containing the

  • put the clock back — to regress
  • put the mockers on — stop, thwart
  • quick off the mark — If you are quick off the mark, you are quick to understand or respond to something. If you are slow off the mark, you are slow to understand or respond to something.
  • quite the contrary — not at all, the very opposite
  • random walk theory — the theory that the future movement of share prices does not reflect past movements and therefore will not follow a discernible pattern
  • reach for the moon — to desire or attempt something unattainable or difficult to obtain
  • reinvent the wheel — (jargon)   To design or implement a tool equivalent to an existing one or part of one, with the implication that doing so is silly or a waste of time. This is often a valid criticism. On the other hand, automobiles don't use wooden rollers, and some kinds of wheel have to be reinvented many times before you get them right. On the third hand, people reinventing the wheel do tend to come up with the moral equivalent of a trapezoid with an offset axle.
  • return to the fold — come back home
  • reverse the charge — to make a telephone call at the recipient's expense
  • root canal therapy — endodontics.
  • rooted to the spot — If you are rooted to the spot, you are unable to move because you are very frightened or shocked.
  • rotary clothesline — an apparatus of radiating spokes that support lines on which clothes are hung to dry
  • rotten to the core — person: wicked
  • scruff of the neck — If someone takes you by the scruff of the neck, they take hold of the back of your neck or collar suddenly and roughly.
  • see the last of sb — not encounter sb anymore
  • shoot from the hip — the act of shooting with a bow, firearm, etc.
  • sign of the zodiac — one of the twelve constellations along the path of the ecliptic.
  • sindbad the sailor — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments), a wealthy citizen of Baghdad who relates the adventures of his seven wonderful voyages.
  • sit at the feet of — to be an admiring disciple of
  • slip of the tongue — If you describe something you said as a slip of the tongue, you mean that you said it by mistake.
  • slow on the uptake — slow to understand or learn
  • snake in the grass — a treacherous person, especially one who feigns friendship.
  • so much the better — You can say 'so much the better' or 'all the better' to indicate that it is desirable that a particular thing is used, done, or available.
  • something or other — sth not remembered precisely
  • sound and the fury — a novel (1929) by William Faulkner.
  • southeast by south — a point on the compass 11°15′ south of southeast. Abbreviation: SEbS.
  • southern cameroons — German Kamerun. a region in W Africa: a German protectorate 1884–1919; divided in 1919 into British and French mandates.
  • southern rhodesian — a former name (until 1964) of Zimbabwe (def 1).
  • speech synthesizer — device that imitates human voice
  • spinal anaesthesia — anaesthesia of the lower half of the body produced by injecting an anaesthetic beneath the arachnoid membrane surrounding the spinal cord
  • spur-of-the-moment — occurring or done without advance preparation or deliberation; extemporaneous; unplanned: a spur-of-the-moment decision.
  • state of the union — A State of the Union speech or address is a speech, given once a year, in which the president of the United States talks about the current political issues that affect the country as a whole and about his plans for the year ahead.
  • superstring theory — any supersymmetric string theory in which each type of elementary particle is treated as a vibration of a single fundamental string (superstring) at a particular frequency.
  • supportive therapy — any treatment, such as the intravenous administration of certain fluids, designed to reinforce or sustain the physiological well-being of a patient
  • swim with the tide — to conform to prevailing opinion
  • sympathetic strike — sympathy strike.
  • sympathetic string — a thin wire string, as in various obsolete musical instruments, designed to vibrate sympathetically with the bowed or plucked strings to reinforce the sound.
  • synthetic division — a simplified procedure for dividing a polynomial by a linear polynomial.
  • synthetic geometry — elementary geometry, as distinct from analytic geometry.
  • take it on the lam — a hasty escape; flight.
  • take the wraps off — to reveal
  • talk of the devil! — used when an absent person who has been the subject of conversation appears
  • that's the ticket! — that's the correct or proper thing! that's right!
  • the american dream — the notion that the American social, economic, and political system makes success possible for every individual
  • the back of beyond — a very remote place
  • the baptist church — any of various Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of believers
  • the beautiful game — football
  • the better part of — a large part of
  • the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
  • the black and tans — a specially recruited armed auxiliary police force sent to Ireland in 1921 by the British Government to combat Sinn Féin
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