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18-letter words containing f, a, c, e, t, h

  • the family compact — the ruling oligarchy in Upper Canada in the early 19th century
  • the french riviera — the Mediterranean coastal region of France from Cannes eastward to Italy
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • ur of the chaldees — the city where Abraham was born, sometimes identified with the Sumerian city of Ur. Gen. 11:28, 31; 15:7; Neh. 9:7.
  • weather forecaster — meteorologist
  • what has become of — If you wonder what has become of someone or something, you wonder where they are and what has happened to them.
  • 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.
  • witch hazel family — the plant family Hamamelidaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having alternate, simple leaves, flowers in clusters or heads, and fruit in the form of a double-beaked woody capsule, and including the sweet gum, witch alder, and witch hazel.
  • writ of attachment — a document by which a court orders the seizing of property in order to ensure satisfaction of a judgement
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