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16-letter words containing h, a, p, t

  • system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
  • tea and sympathy — a caring attitude, esp to someone in trouble
  • thalamencephalon — the diencephalon.
  • the anthropocene — a proposed term for the present geological epoch (from the time of the Industrial Revolution onwards), during which humanity has begun to have a significant impact on the environment
  • the best part of — most of
  • the devil to pay — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
  • the great escape — a film (1963) directed by John Sturges, written by James Clavell and W.R. Burnett, based on a book by Paul Brickhill, and starring Steve McQueen. It follows an attempt made by Allied prisoners of war to escape a German prisoner of war camp during World War II
  • the great powers — the states or nations of the world with the most economic, political and military strength
  • the heavens open — If the heavens open, it suddenly starts raining very heavily.
  • the long paddock — a stockroute or roadside area offering feed to sheep and cattle in dry times
  • the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
  • the supernatural — supernatural forces, occurrences, and beings collectively or their realm
  • the-card-players — a painting (1892) by Paul Cézanne.
  • theatre workshop — a theatre company that is noted for the unconventional theatrical performances it puts on, especially with reference to a company based in the East End of London from 1953 to 1973 that was founded in 1945 by Joan Littlewood
  • thermoacidophile — any organism, especially a type of archaebacterium, that thrives in strongly acidic environments at high temperatures.
  • thermoplasticity — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • thinking pattern — manner of thinking
  • three-point play — a play in which a player sinks the free throw that was awarded when the player was fouled while scoring a basket.
  • thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
  • throw for a loop — a portion of a cord, ribbon, etc., folded or doubled upon itself so as to leave an opening between the parts.
  • tightrope walker — performer who walks on high wire
  • to change places — If you change places with another person, you start being in their situation or role, and they start being in yours.
  • to coin a phrase — You say 'to coin a phrase' to show that you realize you are making a pun or using a cliché.
  • to pass the buck — If you pass the buck, you refuse to accept responsibility for something, and say that someone else is responsible.
  • to pass the time — If you do something to pass the time you do it because you have some time available and not because you really want to do it.
  • to play the fool — If you play the fool or act the fool, you behave in a playful, childish, and foolish way, usually in order to make other people laugh.
  • top-of-the-range — de luxe, expensive
  • topsail schooner — a sailing vessel fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts with square sails above the foresail, and often with a square sail before the foresail.
  • trick photograph — a photograph that creates an illusion
  • triphenylmethane — a colorless, crystalline, solid compound containing three benzene rings, C 19 H 16 , from which many dyes are derived.
  • turn up the heat — to increase the intensity of activity, coercion, etc
  • two-tailed pasha — a distinctive vanessid butterfly of S Europe, Charaxes jasius, having mottled brown wings with a yellow-orange margin and frilled hind edges
  • twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
  • typhoid bacillus — the bacterium Salmonella typhosa, causing typhoid fever.
  • underpitch vault — a construction having a central vault intersected by vaults of lower pitch.
  • up with the lark — up early in the morning
  • upper atmosphere — the portion of the atmosphere above the troposphere.
  • ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
  • voluntary helper — a person who aids or assists in a specified function of one's own accord and without compulsion or promise of remuneration
  • walk a tightrope — be in a precarious position
  • washing-up water — water used for washing dishes
  • watch one's step — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
  • watch this space — Journalists write 'Watch this space' in order to indicate in an informal way that they will be giving more information about something in the future.
  • water chinquapin — an American lotus, Nelumbo lutea, having pale-yellow flowers and an edible seed.
  • weatherstripping — A piece of weatherstrip material.
  • whiptail wallaby — a wallaby of NE Australia, Macropus parryi, with a long slender tail
  • white propaganda — propaganda that comes from the source it claims to come from
  • wipe off the map — to put out of existence
  • x-ray photograph — a radiograph made with x-rays.
  • yah-boo politics — adversarial politics in which politicians constantly deride their opponents and dismiss everything suggested by them
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