18-letter words containing e, t, h, n, i, c
- teaching assistant — a graduate student in a college or university who is the recipient of a teaching fellowship. Abbreviation: TA.
- teaching equipment — teaching aids
- technical knockout — the termination of a bout by the referee when it is the judgment of the attending physician, a boxer's seconds, or the referee that a boxer cannot continue fighting without sustaining severe or disabling injury. Abbreviation: TKO, T.K.O.
- technical reserves — Technical reserves are amounts of money set aside to pay for underwriting liabilities.
- technical sergeant — a noncommissioned officer ranking below a master sergeant and above a staff sergeant.
- telephone receiver — a device, as in a telephone, that converts changes in an electric current into sound.
- the american dream — the notion that the American social, economic, and political system makes success possible for every individual
- the black mountain — a mountain range in S Wales, in E Carmarthenshire and W Powys. Highest peak: Carmarthen Van, 802 m (2632 ft)
- the dark continent — a term for Africa when it was relatively unexplored
- the dismal science — a name for economics coined by Thomas Carlyle
- the electronic age — the electronic age began when electronic equipment, including computers came into use
- the encyclopedists — the writers of the French Encyclopedia (1751-72) edited by Diderot and d'Alembert, which contained the advanced ideas of the period
- the french riviera — the Mediterranean coastal region of France from Cannes eastward to Italy
- the general public — the people in a society; people in general
- the kinetic theory — a theory of gases postulating that they consist of particles of negligible size moving at random and undergoing elastic collisions
- the north atlantic — the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean, especially the waters separating North America and Europe
- the south atlantic — the part of the Atlantic Ocean that lies to the south of the equator
- the uncircumcision — the gentiles
- the-dark-continent — Africa: so called, especially during the 19th century, because little was known about it.
- thermal efficiency — the ratio of the work output of a heat engine to the heat input expressed in the same units of energy.
- thermionic current — an electric current produced by the flow of thermions.
- thermoluminescence — phosphorescence produced by the heating of a substance.
- thioarsenious acid — any of a group of hypothetical acids, H3AsS3, HAsS2, and H4As2S5, known only in the forms of their salts
- thirty-second note — a note having 1/32 of the time value of a whole note; demi-semiquaver.
- thirty-second rest — a rest equal in value to a thirty-second note.
- threatened species — a species likely, in the near future, to become an endangered species within all or much of its range.
- to come unstitched — to go wrong or awry
- to lick into shape — If you lick, knock, or whip someone or something into shape, you use whatever methods are necessary to change or improve them so that they are in the condition that you want them to be in.
- to pick and choose — If you pick and choose, you carefully choose only things that you really want and reject the others.
- touch-in-goal line — either of the two touchlines at each end of the field between the goal line and the dead-ball line.
- unenthusiastically — full of or characterized by enthusiasm; ardent: He seems very enthusiastic about his role in the play.
- white-faced hornet — any large, stinging paper wasp of the family Vespidae, as Vespa crabro (giant hornet) introduced into the U.S. from Europe, or Vespula maculata (bald-faced hornet or white-faced hornet) of North America.
- widemouth blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
- writ of attachment — a document by which a court orders the seizing of property in order to ensure satisfaction of a judgement