18-letter words containing h, a, n, s, e, t
- the black and tans — a specially recruited armed auxiliary police force sent to Ireland in 1921 by the British Government to combat Sinn Féin
- the blue hen state — a nickname for the state of Delaware
- the damage is done — If you say 'the damage is done', you mean that it is too late now to prevent the harmful effects of something that has already happened.
- the dismal science — a name for economics coined by Thomas Carlyle
- the final solution — the code name used by the Nazis to refer to the plan of mass murder of the Jews
- the heavens opened — it started pouring with rain
- the hunger marches — a number of processions by unemployed workers in the 1930s to protest against unemployment and deprivation
- the intelligentsia — the educated or intellectual people in a society or community
- the magnolia state — a nickname referring to Mississippi
- the masurian lakes — a group of lakes in Masuria in NE Poland: scene of Russian defeats by the Germans (1914, 1915) during World War I
- the mountain state — a nickname referring to West Virginia
- the passenger seat — the seat used by a passenger of a car, beside the driver
- the queen of sheba — a queen of the Sabeans, who visited Solomon (I Kings 10:1–13)
- the south atlantic — the part of the Atlantic Ocean that lies to the south of the equator
- the stars and bars — the flag of the Confederate States of America
- the sun also rises — a novel (1926) by Ernest Hemingway.
- the sunshine state — the nickname of the US state of Florida, which comes from its sunny climate
- thioarsenious acid — any of a group of hypothetical acids, H3AsS3, HAsS2, and H4As2S5, known only in the forms of their salts
- thomas alva edison — Thomas Alva [al-vuh] /ˈæl və/ (Show IPA), 1847–1931, U.S. inventor, especially of electrical devices.
- thorfinn karlsefni — 980–after 1007, Icelandic navigator, explorer, and leader of early colonizing expedition to Vinland, in North America.
- threatened species — a species likely, in the near future, to become an endangered species within all or much of its range.
- to learn the ropes — If you are learning the ropes, you are learning how a particular task or job is done.
- 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.
- to spill the beans — If you spill the beans, you tell someone something that people have been trying to keep secret.
- townsend avalanche — avalanche (def 3).
- transit theodolite — a theodolite having a telescope that can be transited.
- turn one's hand to — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- under one's breath — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
- under the aegis of — guided or protected by
- unenthusiastically — full of or characterized by enthusiasm; ardent: He seems very enthusiastic about his role in the play.
- urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
- wesleyan methodist — a member of any of the churches founded on the evangelical principles of John Wesley.
- west-northwestward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the west-northwest.
- westinghouse brake — a railroad air brake operated by compressed air.
- white man's burden — the alleged duty of white colonizers to care for nonwhite indigenous subjects in their colonial possessions.
- without hesitation — immediately, willingly
- woman of the house — lady of the house.