18-letter words containing a, r, c, h, e, y
- sulfuric anhydride — sulfur trioxide.
- 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.
- symphony orchestra — a large orchestra composed of wind, string, and percussion instruments and organized to perform symphonic compositions.
- the-cocktail-party — a play in verse (1950) by T. S. Eliot.
- theater of cruelty — a form of surrealist theater originated by Antonin Artaud and emphasizing the cruelty of human existence by portraying sadistic acts and intense suffering.
- theatre of cruelty — a type of theatre advocated by Antonin Artaud in Le Théâtre et son double that seeks to communicate to its audience a sense of pain, suffering, and evil, using gesture, movement, sound, and symbolism rather than language
- thermal efficiency — the ratio of the work output of a heat engine to the heat input expressed in the same units of energy.
- to hold your peace — If you hold or keep your peace, you do not speak, even though there is something you want or ought to say.
- to meet your match — If you meet your match, you find that you are competing or fighting against someone who you cannot beat because they are as good as you, or better than you.
- to watch your step — If someone tells you to watch your step, they are warning you to be careful about how you behave or what you say so that you do not get into trouble.
- too clever by half — If someone is too clever by half, they are very clever and they show their cleverness in a way that annoys other people.
- two-chamber system — the system of having two parliamentary chambers, as the House of Lords and the House of Commons in the United Kingdom
- vectorcardiography — a method of determining the direction and magnitude of the electrical forces of the heart.
- warehouse capacity — the amount of storage space in a warehouse