achilles' heel

These user-created lists contain the word ‘achilles' heel’.

• Namesakes

  Words derived from names, be they historical, literary, or mythological.

  quixotic, cereal, odyssey, jovial, mercurial, erotic, achilles' heel, confucianism, lovecraftian, narcissism, echo, fallopian and 101 more...

• X's Y, where X is somebody's name

  adam's apple, job's comforters, portnoy's complaint, halley's comet, pandora's box, buckley's chance, occam's razor, lou gehrig's disease, jehovah's witness, queen anne's lace, huntington's chorea, tourette's syndrome and 280 more...

• vocab

  hard word word 4 strong vocab

  ostracize, importune, impute, scintillate, mulct, deprecate, procrastinate, rusticate, vegetate, expiate, emulate, gesticulate and 345 more...

• For Pete's Sake

  Names that appear in common phrases/clichès. (Also see sionnach's list, tom, dick and harry.)

  adam's apple, jim crow, joe blow, bobby pin, nervous nellie, for pete's sake, jolly roger, john hancock, johnny-come-lately, suzie q, teddy bear, tommy gun and 81 more...