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18-letter words containing h, a, t, i

  • talk of the devil! — used when an absent person who has been the subject of conversation appears
  • tan someone's hide — to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.
  • teacher evaluation — the process of vetting teachers to maintain teaching standards
  • teaching assistant — a graduate student in a college or university who is the recipient of a teaching fellowship. Abbreviation: TA.
  • teaching equipment — teaching aids
  • technical knockout — the termination of a bout by the referee when it is the judgment of the attending physician, a boxer's seconds, or the referee that a boxer cannot continue fighting without sustaining severe or disabling injury. Abbreviation: TKO, T.K.O.
  • technical reserves — Technical reserves are amounts of money set aside to pay for underwriting liabilities.
  • technical sergeant — a noncommissioned officer ranking below a master sergeant and above a staff sergeant.
  • that's the ticket! — that's the correct or proper thing! that's right!
  • the american dream — the notion that the American social, economic, and political system makes success possible for every individual
  • the baptist church — any of various Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of believers
  • the beautiful game — football
  • the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
  • the black mountain — a mountain range in S Wales, in E Carmarthenshire and W Powys. Highest peak: Carmarthen Van, 802 m (2632 ft)
  • the cat's whiskers — a person or thing that is excellent or superior
  • the coast is clear — If you say that the coast is clear, you mean that there is nobody around to see you or catch you.
  • 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 dark continent — a term for Africa when it was relatively unexplored
  • the dismal science — a name for economics coined by Thomas Carlyle
  • the electric chair — an electrified chair for executing criminals
  • the electronic age — the electronic age began when electronic equipment, including computers came into use
  • the family compact — the ruling oligarchy in Upper Canada in the early 19th century
  • the final solution — the code name used by the Nazis to refer to the plan of mass murder of the Jews
  • the first sea lord — the senior of the two serving naval officers who sits on the admiralty board of the Ministry of Defence
  • the french riviera — the Mediterranean coastal region of France from Cannes eastward to Italy
  • the general public — the people in a society; people in general
  • the grand national — an annual steeplechase run at Aintree, Liverpool, since 1839
  • the hand of fatima — a symbol of a hand used in some Arabic countries to protect against the evil eye, a magical power
  • the intelligentsia — the educated or intellectual people in a society or community
  • the internationale — a revolutionary socialist hymn, first sung in 1871 in France
  • the magnolia state — a nickname referring to Mississippi
  • the major rogation — April 25, observed by Christians as a day of solemn supplication for the harvest and marked by processions, special prayers, and blessing of the crops
  • 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 middle passage — the journey across the Atlantic Ocean from the W coast of Africa to the Caribbean: the longest part of the journey of the slave ships sailing to the Caribbean or the Americas
  • the mountain state — a nickname referring to West Virginia
  • the north atlantic — the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean, especially the waters separating North America and Europe
  • the operative word — If you describe a word as the operative word, you want to draw attention to it because you think it is important or exactly true in a particular situation.
  • the practicalities — the real facts or details of a situation, as opposed to its theoretical aspects
  • the south atlantic — the part of the Atlantic Ocean that lies to the south of the equator
  • 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
  • the-cocktail-party — a play in verse (1950) by T. S. Eliot.
  • the-dark-continent — Africa: so called, especially during the 19th century, because little was known about it.
  • the-master-builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • theodore gericault — (Jean Louis André) Théodore [zhahn lwee ahn-drey tey-aw-dawr] /ʒɑ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈdreɪ teɪ ɔˈdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1791–1824, French painter.
  • there you go again — Phrases such as there you go again are used to show annoyance at someone who is repeating something that has annoyed you in the past.
  • thermal efficiency — the ratio of the work output of a heat engine to the heat input expressed in the same units of energy.
  • thioantimonic acid — a hypothetical acid, H3SbS4, known only in the form of its salts
  • thioarsenious acid — any of a group of hypothetical acids, H3AsS3, HAsS2, and H4As2S5, known only in the forms of their salts
  • thiosulphuric acid — an unstable acid known only in solutions and in the form of its salts. Formula: H2S2O3
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