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14-letter words containing h, a, n, t, l

  • technical foul — a foul committed by a player or coach, usually not involving physical contact with an opponent, called often for unsportsmanlike conduct, as holding on to the basket or using profanity, that gives the opposing team one or two free throws and sometimes, if the foul was flagrant, requires the ejection of the offending player or coach from the game.
  • technicalities — technical methods and vocabulary
  • telephone bank — an array of telephones used in large-scale telephoning operations, as for a political campaign.
  • telephone call — contact by phone
  • telephonically — of, relating to, or happening by means of a telephone system.
  • ten-gallon hat — a broad-brimmed hat with a high crown, worn especially in the western and southwestern U.S.; cowboy hat.
  • texas longhorn — one of a breed of long-horned beef cattle of the southwestern U.S., developed from cattle introduced into North America from Spain and valued for disease resistance, fecundity, and a historical association with the old West: now rare.
  • thanatological — relating to thanatology, the study of death and dying
  • the blue angel — a legendary German expressionist film of 1930, the first major German sound film, starring Marlene Dietrich
  • the capitoline — the most important of the Seven Hills of Rome. The temple of Jupiter was on the southern summit and the ancient citadel on the northern summit
  • the final four — the last four teams remaining in a tournament
  • the great glen — a fault valley across the whole of Scotland, extending southwest from the Moray Firth in the east to Loch Linnhe and containing Loch Ness and Loch Lochy
  • the honourable — a title of respect placed before a name: employed before the names of various officials in the English-speaking world, as a courtesy title in Britain for the children of viscounts and barons and the younger sons of earls, and in Parliament by one member speaking of another
  • the inevitable — something that is unavoidable
  • the long march — a journey of about 10 000 km (6000 miles) undertaken (1934–35) by some 100 000 Chinese Communists when they were forced out of their base in Kiangsi in SE China. They made their way to Shensi in NW China; only about 8000 survived the rigours of the journey
  • the milk train — a very early morning train, that traditionally transported milk, on which passengers also travelled
  • the palaeocene — the Palaeocene epoch or rock series
  • the palaeogene — the Palaeogene period or system
  • the palatinate — either of two territories in SW Germany, once ruled by the counts palatine. Upper Palatinate is now in Bavaria; Lower or Rhine Palatinate is now in Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, and Hesse
  • the paranormal — paranormal happenings generally
  • the platteland — (in South Africa) the country districts or rural areas
  • the real thing — If you say that a thing or event is the real thing, you mean that it is the thing or event itself, rather than an imitation or copy.
  • the soo canals — the two ship canals linking Lakes Superior and Huron. There is a canal on the Canadian and on the US side of the rapids of the St Mary's River
  • the unknowable — the ultimate reality that underlies all phenomena but cannot be known
  • the vernacular — the commonly spoken language or dialect of a particular people or place
  • the waste land — a poem (1922) by T. S. Eliot.
  • the-suppliants — a tragedy (c463 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • thenard's blue — cobalt blue.
  • thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
  • thermoanalysis — thermal analysis.
  • thermotolerant — (of plants) able to tolerate, but not thriving in, high temperatures
  • thread rolling — the production of a screw thread by a rolling swaging process using hardened profiled rollers. Rolled threads are stronger than threads machined by a cutting tool
  • thromboplastin — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
  • to lend a hand — If you lend someone a hand, you help them.
  • tongue-lashing — severe scolding
  • tooth and nail — with all one's resources or energy; fiercely: We fought tooth and nail but lost.
  • total fighting — a combat sport in which very few restrictions are placed on the type of blows or tactics that may be used
  • track lighting — lighting for a room or other area in which individual spotlight fixtures are attached along a narrow, wall- or ceiling-mounted metal track through which current is conducted, permitting flexible positioning of the lights.
  • trailing phlox — a prostrate plant, Phlox nivalis, of the southeastern U.S., having pink or white flowers.
  • trans-physical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
  • trihalomethane — a type of chemical compound in which three of the hydrogen atoms in a methane molecule have been replaced by halogen atoms, esp by chlorine in drinking water. Trihalomethanes are thought to be carcinogenic
  • trimethylamine — a colourless, flammable liquid with a strong, fishy odour
  • triphenylamine — a molecule consisting of a nitrogen atom with three phenyl groups attached to it
  • tropical month — the period of time taken by the moon to return to the same longitude after one complete revolution around the earth; 27.321 58 days (approximately 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, 4.5 seconds)
  • turn the scale — Often, scales. a balance or any of various other instruments or devices for weighing: We gave the parents a baby scale. The butcher placed the meat on the scales.
  • unemphatically — uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
  • unfaithfulness — not faithful; false to duty, obligation, or promises; faithless; disloyal.
  • unhesitatingly — without hesitation; not delayed by uncertainty: an unhesitating decision.
  • unhypocritical — of the nature of hypocrisy, or pretense of having virtues, beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually possess: The parent who has a “do what I say and not what I do” attitude can appear hypocritical to a child.
  • unhysterically — in a way that does not show or suggest any hysteria; calmly; rationally
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