15-letter words that end in t
- in a (bad) spot — in a bad situation; in trouble
- in a good light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- in a tight spot — in difficult situation
- in nothing flat — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
- in one's pocket — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- in the abstract — When you talk or think about something in the abstract, you talk or think about it in a general way, rather than considering particular things or events.
- in the box seat — in the best position
- indian elephant — See under elephant.
- indicator light — a device for indicating that a motor vehicle is about to turn left or right; blinker
- indirect object — a word or group of words representing the person or thing with reference to which the action of a verb is performed, in English generally coming between the verb and the direct object and paraphrasable as the object of a preposition, usually to or for, following the direct object, as the boy in He gave the boy a book.
- inferior planet — either of the two planets whose orbits are inside the orbit of the earth: Venus and Mercury.
- initiative test — a test to see how resourceful someone is and their ability to decide what to do and when to do it
- inside straight — Poker. a set of four cards, as the five, seven, eight, and nine, requiring one card of a denomination next above or below the second or third ranking cards of the set to make a straight.
- instruction set — (architecture) The collection of machine language instructions that a particular processor understands. The term is almost synonymous with "instruction set architecture" since the instructions are fairly meaningless in isolation from the registers etc. that they manipulate.
- instrumentalist — a person who plays a musical instrument.
- insurance agent — sb who sells insurance policies
- insurrectionist — an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government.
- intellectualist — devotion to intellectual pursuits.
- interchangement — the act of interchanging
- internal market — a system in which goods and services are sold by the provider to a range of purchasers within the same organization, who compete to establish the price of the product
- intertanglement — the state or condition of being intertangled
- interventionist — the policy or doctrine of intervening, especially government interference in the affairs of another state or in domestic economic affairs.
- intransigentist — an intransigent
- irreconcilement — the quality or state of being unreconciled
- irritable heart — cardiac neurosis.
- it's sb's shout — If you are in a pub and someone you are with says 'It's your shout' or 'It's my shout', they mean that it is your turn or their turn to buy a round of drinks.
- job enlargement — a widening of the range of tasks performed by an employee in order to provide variety in the activities undertaken
- job requirement — a quality or qualification that you must have in order to be suitable for a certain job
- john lewis list — a list used by clerks in the House of Commons to assess the amount that may reasonably be claimed for various items by Members of Parliament as living expenses
- john ousterhout — (person) /oh'st*r-howt/ John K. Ousterhout, the designer of Tcl and Tk, and founder of Scriptics. See also: Ousterhout's dichotomy. E-mail: [email protected]
- joint agreement — a formal decision about future action which is made by two or more countries, groups, or people
- just the ticket — If you say that something is just the ticket, you mean that it is exactly what is needed.
- justice's court — an inferior tribunal, not of record, having limited jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, and presided over by a justice of the peace.
- kamikaze packet — Christmas tree packet
- karl-marx-stadt — former name (1953–90) of Chemnitz.
- kick the bucket — a deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail.
- killer instinct — If you say that a sports player or politician has the killer instinct, you admire them for their toughness and determination to succeed.
- kitchen cabinet — a cupboard built into a kitchen or a chest of drawers for kitchen use, as for dishes and silverware.
- knight banneret — banneret1 (def 2).
- knock-on effect — a chain reaction.
- las vegas night — an evening of casino-style gambling, usually sponsored by a charitable, religious, or other fund-raising organization.
- laser treatment — any of various medical and surgical techniques using lasers, such as the removal of small growths
- law-enforcement — of police, anti-crime
- lay oneself out — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- leakage current — A leakage current is an electric current in an unwanted conductive path under normal operating conditions.
- leakage-current — an act of leaking; leak.
- leaving present — a present given to a person when they leave a job, place etc
- legion of merit — a decoration ranking below the Silver Star and above the Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded to U.S. and foreign military personnel for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the U.S.
- liability limit — the highest amount that a liability insurer will pay on a single claim.
- light flyweight — an amateur boxer weighing not more than 48 kg (106 pounds)