16-letter words containing e, m, n, t, h, a
- teachable moment — a specific occurrence, situation, or experience that can be used to teach people about something more general: Her death created a teachable moment about prescription drug abuse.
- teaching machine — a mechanical, electrical, or other automatic device that presents the user with items of information in planned sequence, registers his or her response to each item, and immediately indicates the acceptability of each response.
- thalamencephalon — the diencephalon.
- the amazon basin — the catchment area of the River Amazon
- the caine mutiny — a novel by Herman Wouk, later made into a film
- the commonwealth — the government in England under the Cromwells and Parliament from 1649 to 1660
- the england team — any sports team representing England, esp the England football team.
- the fact remains — You say the fact remains that something is the case when you want to emphasize that the situation must be accepted.
- the home nations — the countries that make up the United Kingdom: England, N. Ireland, Scotland & Wales
- the human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
- the little woman — one's wife
- the mekong delta — the area where the Mekong River empties into the sea through distributaries
- the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
- thermal analysis — any analysis of materials in which properties relating to heat, such as freezing and boiling temperatures, the heat of fusion, the heat of vaporization, etc., are measured.
- thermal constant — a quantity that is considered invariable throughout a series of calculations relating to the heat of bodies
- thermal cracking — Thermal cracking is an extraction process in which hydrocarbons such as crude oil are heated to a high temperature to break the molecular bonds.
- thermal neutrons — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
- thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
- thermoanesthesia — thermanesthesia.
- thermoregulation — the regulation of body temperature.
- thesis statement — a short statement, usually one sentence, that summarizes the main point or claim of an essay, research paper, etc., and is developed, supported, and explained in the text by means of examples and evidence.
- thomas jefferson — Joseph, 1829–1905, U.S. actor.
- three-card monte — a gambling game in which the players are shown three cards and bet that they can identify one particular card of the three, as stipulated by the dealer, after the cards have been moved around face down by the dealer.
- thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
- thumbnail sketch — small preliminary drawing
- tibetan buddhism — the form of Mahayana Buddhism that developed and is practiced primarily in Tibet and some nearby nations: its spiritual leader is the Dalai Lama
- to a/the minimum — If you say that someone keeps something to a minimum, or to the minimum, you mean that they keep the amount of it as small as possible.
- transmethylation — the transfer of a methyl group from one compound to another.
- trichloromethane — chloroform (def 1).
- triphenylmethane — a colorless, crystalline, solid compound containing three benzene rings, C 19 H 16 , from which many dyes are derived.
- tsushima current — a warm ocean current flowing northward along the west coast of Japan.
- under the hammer — a tool consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, set crosswise on a handle, used for beating metals, driving nails, etc.
- unmarried mother — a woman who has a baby while she is not married
- vitamin-enriched — having had vitamins added