Verbs with 20 letters (228)



  • cream in one's jeans
  • do someone's head in
  • outrun the constable
  • mind one's ps and qs
  • put one's foot in it
  • add fuel to the fire
  • drink with the flies
  • add insult to injury
  • cut the Gordian knot
  • get away with murder
  • light someone's fire
  • get with the program
  • put one's mind to it
  • talk a mile a minute
  • splice the mainbrace
  • cross someone's palm
  • make an honest woman
  • cross someone's path
  • chase one's own tail
  • cook someone's goose
  • kill the fatted calf
  • toss someone's salad
  • get down to business
  • take to the cleaners
  • force someone's hand
  • stick one's neck out
  • turn over a new leaf
  • pull out of the fire
  • hit on all cylinders
  • put someone on blast
  • turn someone's crank
  • vote with one's feet
  • take up a collection
  • laugh one's head off
  • send someone packing
  • turn the boat around
  • pull someone's chain
  • swing for the fences
  • take up the gauntlet
  • die and go to heaven
  • blow someone's cover
  • turn the other cheek
  • give a tinker's cuss
  • play the gender card
  • give a tinker's damn
  • blow to kingdom come
  • get it how one lives
  • make head or tail of
  • suffer by comparison
  • clip someone's wings
  • jump someone's bones
  • running the gauntlet
  • turn with every wind
  • step up to the plate
  • smoke like a chimney
  • go to someone's head
  • pour one's heart out
  • pour out one's heart
  • pick someone's brain
  • weep into one's beer
  • set one's heart upon
  • speak truth to power
  • go to the mattresses
  • rain on one's parade
  • fight fire with fire
  • pump someone's tires
  • quake in one's boots
  • fall about the place
  • split the difference
  • yank someone's chain
  • twiddle one's thumbs
  • give one enough rope
  • fight the good fight
  • clear someone's name
  • give one's eye-teeth
  • know which end is up
  • give one's right arm
  • épater le bourgeois
  • know which way is up
  • improve the occasion
  • teach who's the boss
  • go against the grain
  • call a spade a spade
  • rock someone's socks
  • cover someone's back
  • make oneself at home
  • set the world ablaze
  • stand and be counted
  • rock someone's world
  • fish for compliments
  • hoist the white flag
  • pee like a racehorse
  • set the world aflame
  • set the world alight
  • beg someone's pardon
  • get one's claws into
  • give someone a break
  • save someone's bacon
  • shove it up your ass
  • have had one's chips
  • break upon the wheel
  • get one's finger out
  • flutter the dovecote
  • run off at the mouth
  • go around in circles
  • beat around the bush
  • give someone his hat
  • recover one's senses
  • bring down the house
  • let the buyer beware
  • hand someone his hat
  • shape up or ship out
  • bring home the bacon
  • ruffle some feathers
  • fall off one's perch
  • stew in one's juices
  • take it to the house
  • give someone the bag
  • cast the first stone
  • take it upon oneself
  • give someone the eye
  • bring owls to Athens
  • fall on stony ground
  • get one's teeth into
  • lay on with a trowel
  • run round in circles
  • jerk someone's chain
  • bring the house down
  • ride the cotton pony
  • open one's big mouth
  • make the welkin ring
  • throw someone a bone
  • fall over one's feet
  • beat the crap out of
  • get one's ya-yas out
  • come out in the wash
  • drag through the mud
  • spike someone's guns
  • give something a try
  • dry up and blow away
  • get out at Haymarket
  • beat the shit out of
  • have one's head read
  • carry all before one
  • poke one's nose into
  • watch one's language
  • call someone's bluff
  • look before you leap
  • throw up one's hands
  • show a little ginger
  • kick over the traces
  • spread like wildfire
  • take one's best shot
  • feel eight feet tall
  • give the time of day
  • look down one's nose
  • come to a sticky end
  • carry owls to Athens
  • acknowledge the corn
  • keep one's head down
  • fill someone's shoes
  • stink to high heaven
  • preliminarily enjoin
  • knock out of the box
  • have second thoughts
  • wheeling and dealing
  • begging the question
  • keep one's pecker up
  • have seen this movie
  • come to one's senses
  • get someone's number
  • go for the gold ring
  • blot one's copy book
  • see into a millstone
  • go from bad to worse
  • have someone's blood
  • go from zero to hero
  • keep someone company
  • get the ball rolling
  • rise to the occasion
  • show the cloven foot
  • rub up the wrong way
  • hold all of the aces
  • show the cloven hoof
  • float someone's boat
  • take someone's point
  • have the painters in
  • see the light of day
  • pay through the nose
  • keep the pot boiling
  • see the way clear to
  • lead someone a dance
  • bust someone's balls
  • soften up the ground
  • lose one's virginity
  • dance the hempen jig
  • fly off at a tangent
  • go into one's shells
  • hold one's head high
  • fly out of the traps
  • lead with one's chin
  • lick someone's balls
  • scream bloody murder
  • settle one's affairs
  • slip under the radar
  • bounce off the walls
  • touch one's forelock
  • get to the bottom of
  • rough up the bullpen
  • cut one's own throat
  • put on the red light
  • pop someone's cherry
  • touch someone's robe
  • raise the white flag
  • make a monkey out of
  • stuff the ballot box
  • raise unshirted hell
  • back the right horse
  • chew up and spit out
  • get ahead of oneself
  • swear like a trooper
  • get up someone's ass
  • get ahold of oneself
  • wipe the slate clean
  • draw the short straw
  • find a friendly bush
  • overintellectualized
  • darken a church door

Note: these words have been obtained from Wiktionary and have been classified and improved through automated computer linguistics processes.

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