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15-letter words containing a, h, o, r

  • sumatra camphor — borneol.
  • summer holidays — the time when children do not go to school in the summer
  • sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
  • take one's hour — to do something in a leisurely manner
  • tear one's hair — the act of tearing.
  • telephotography — photography of distant objects, using a telephoto lens.
  • tetrahydrofuran — a clear liquid, C 4 H 8 O, soluble in water and organic solvents, used as a solvent for resins, in polymerizations and as a chemical intermediate.
  • thalassographer — a person who studies the sea; an oceanographer
  • thalassographic — relating to thalassography
  • thalassotherapy — the use of sea water and marine products as a therapeutic treatment
  • thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
  • thankworthiness — the state or quality of being thankworthy or deserving thanks
  • the amen corner — the part of a church, usually to one side of the pulpit, occupied by people who lead the responsive amens during the service
  • the anglo-irish — the inhabitants of Ireland of English birth or descent
  • the confederacy — the league of Southern states that seceded from the U.S. in 1860 & 1861; Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex., & Va.
  • the cordilleras — the complex of mountain ranges on the W side of the Americas, extending from Alaska to Cape Horn and including the Andes and the Rocky Mountains
  • the daily round — the usual activities of one's day
  • the early hours — If something happens in the early hours, in the small hours, or in the wee hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.
  • the greater dog — the constellation Canis Major
  • the incarnation — the taking on of a human body by the second person of the Trinity; the joining of the divine and the human in Jesus Christ
  • the lower karoo — one of the two divisions of the Karoo
  • the lower ranks — people who have a low rank in a military organization
  • the motor trade — the business of selling and buying cars and other road vehicles
  • the other place — (at Oxford University) Cambridge University
  • the other woman — married man's female lover
  • the outward man — the body as opposed to the soul
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • the phanerozoic — the Phanerozoic era
  • the reformation — the 16th-cent. religious movement that aimed at reforming the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in establishing the Protestant churches
  • the restoration — the reestablishment of the monarchy in England in 1660 under Charles II
  • the rule of law — the principle that no one is above the law and that everyone must follow the law
  • the small hours — If something happens in the early hours or in the small hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.
  • the smart money — If you say that the smart money is on a particular person or thing, you mean that people who know a lot about it think that this person will be successful, or this thing will happen.
  • the upper karoo — one of the two divisions of the Karoo
  • the war-wounded — those people who have been injured or wounded by war
  • the way forward — how to progress, what to do next
  • the working man — working class people collectively
  • the wrong track — the incorrect line of investigation, inquiry, etc
  • the-ambassadors — a novel (1903) by Henry James.
  • the-arbitration — a comedy (c300 b.c.) by Menander, extant only as a fragment.
  • theatre company — an organization that produces theatrical performances
  • theory of games — game theory.
  • thermal equator — an imaginary line round the earth running through the point on each meridian with the highest average temperature. It lies mainly to the north because of the larger landmasses and therefore greater summer heating
  • thermal neutron — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
  • thermal reactor — a nuclear reactor in which most of the fission is caused by thermal neutrons
  • thermobarograph — a device that simultaneously records the temperature and pressure of the atmosphere
  • thermobarometer — Also called hypsometer. an instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure, and sometimes altitude, from its effect upon the boiling point of a liquid.
  • thermogeography — the study of the geographical variation and distribution of temperature.
  • thermoremanence — the state or quality of being thermoremanent
  • thioallyl ether — allyl sulfide.
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