14-letter words containing h, a, r, s, e, t
- terraced house — A terraced house or a terrace house is one of a row of similar houses joined together by their side walls.
- test the water — If you test the water or test the waters, you try to find out what reaction an action or idea will get before you do it or tell it to people.
- tetrachotomous — divided into four parts
- 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.
- the bear state — a name for the state of Arkansas
- the cretaceous — the Cretaceous period or rock system
- the everglades — a subtropical marshy region of Florida, south of Lake Okeechobee: contains the Everglades National Park established to preserve the flora and fauna of the swamps. Area: over 13 000 sq km (5000 sq miles)
- the federalist — a set of 85 articles by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, published in 1787 and 1788, analyzing the Constitution of the U.S. and urging its adoption
- the grenadines — a chain of about 600 islets in the Caribbean, part of the Windward Islands, extending for about 100 km (60 miles) between St Vincent and Grenada and divided administratively between the two states. Largest island: Carriacou
- the kama sutra — an ancient Hindu text on erotic pleasure and other topics
- the last straw — If an event is the last straw or the straw that broke the camel's back, it is the latest in a series of unpleasant or undesirable events, and makes you feel that you cannot tolerate a situation any longer.
- the last trump — the final trumpet call that according to the belief of some will awaken and raise the dead on the Day of Judgment
- the lord's day — the Christian Sabbath; Sunday
- the red guards — a radical political movement of civilian youths in China, who were mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the Cultural Revolution
- the resistance — an illegal organization fighting for national liberty in a country under enemy occupation, esp in France during World War II
- the rheumatics — rheumatic pains
- the samaritans — a voluntary organization which offers counselling to people in despair, esp by telephone
- the space race — competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to be the superior power in outer space, in terms of exploration, manned space flights, and lunar landings; it is generally considered as beginning in 1957 and ending in the mid-1970s
- the stannaries — a tin-mining district of Devon and Cornwall, formerly under the jurisdiction of special courts
- the surinamese — the people of Surinam collectively
- the-federalist — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
- thenard's blue — cobalt blue.
- there's no way — If you say there's no way that something will happen, you are emphasizing that you think it will definitely not happen.
- thermaesthesia — ability to perceive or sense cold or heat; sensitiveness to heat.
- thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
- thermal stress — Thermal stress is stress caused by differences in temperature or by differences in thermal expansion.
- thermoacoustic — pertaining to a method of cooling using air driven with acoustic power.
- thermoanalysis — thermal analysis.
- thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
- thermostatting — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
- thesaurismosis — storage disease.
- thomas raffles — Sir Thomas Stamford, 1781–1826, English colonial administrator in the East Indies.
- thomas younger — Thomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
- threaded glass — glass decorated with a pattern produced by variegated glass filaments.
- three-base hit — triple (def 7).
- three-quarters — Three-quarters is an amount that is three out of four equal parts of something.
- throat seizing — cuckold's knot.
- thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
- thysanopterous — of or relating to the Thysanoptera genus of insects which are characterized by fringed wings
- to gather dust — If you say that something is gathering dust, you mean that it has been left somewhere and nobody is using it or doing anything with it.
- trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
- training shoes — running shoes for sports training, esp in contrast to studded or spiked shoes worn for the sport itself
- treasure chest — A treasure chest is a box containing treasure.
- treasure house — a building, room, or chamber used as a storage place for valuables; treasury.
- treasury bench — (in Britain) the front bench to the right of the Speaker in the House of Commons, traditionally reserved for members of the Government
- trisoctahedron — a solid bounded by 24 identical faces in groups of three, each group corresponding to one face of an octahedron.
- try one's hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- turn of phrase — expression, wording
- 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.
- two-horse race — a competition, election, etc, in which there are only two teams or candidates with a chance of winning