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16-letter words containing h, e, a, t, d

  • take to the road — to start traveling; set out
  • tea and sympathy — a caring attitude, esp to someone in trouble
  • tension headache — a headache caused by muscle tension resulting from stress or overwork
  • tetrahydrozoline — a compound, C 13 H 16 N 2 , used in the treatment of nasal congestion and certain conditions of eye irritation.
  • thaddeus stevens — Alfred, 1817–75, English painter and sculptor.
  • thalidomide baby — a baby that has physical abnormalities due to the drug thalidomide being taken by the mother while the baby was still a developing fetus
  • thatched cottage — a cottage that has a roof that is thatched with straw, reed etc
  • the barren lands — a region of tundra in N Canada, extending westwards from Hudson Bay: sparsely inhabited, chiefly by Inuit
  • 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 england team — any sports team representing England, esp the England football team.
  • the here and now — the present time
  • the human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
  • the long paddock — a stockroute or roadside area offering feed to sheep and cattle in dry times
  • the mekong delta — the area where the Mekong River empties into the sea through distributaries
  • the one and only — incomparable and unique
  • the orange order — a society founded in Ireland (1795) to uphold the Protestant religion, the Protestant dynasty, and the Protestant constitution
  • the red brigades — a group of urban guerrillas, based in Italy, who kidnapped and murdered the former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro (1916–78) in 1978
  • the roaring days — the period of the Australian goldrushes
  • the scots guards — a regiment of Guards Division of the British Army which dates back to 1642
  • the south island — the largest island of New Zealand, separated from the North Island by the Cook Strait. Pop: 1 048 200 (2013 est). Area: 153 947 sq km (59 439 sq miles)
  • the subsidiariat — a collective term for the news sources that would not survive without being subsidized directly (by a government, etc), or indirectly (through sharing a parent company with another more profitable revenue source)
  • the war-disabled — those people who have been disabled by war
  • the-card-players — a painting (1892) by Paul Cézanne.
  • thermoacidophile — any organism, especially a type of archaebacterium, that thrives in strongly acidic environments at high temperatures.
  • thick-tailed ray — Ichthyology. any ray of the order Rajiformes, having a relatively thick, fleshy tail, including the guitarfishes and the skates.
  • thioarsenic acid — any of three hypothetical acids, H3AsS4, HAsS3, and H4As2S7, known only in the forms of their salts
  • three-card monte — a gambling game in which the players are shown three cards and bet that they can identify one particular card of the three, as stipulated by the dealer, after the cards have been moved around face down by the dealer.
  • three-card trick — a game in which players bet on which of three inverted playing cards is the queen
  • tibetan buddhism — the form of Mahayana Buddhism that developed and is practiced primarily in Tibet and some nearby nations: its spiritual leader is the Dalai Lama
  • to beat the band — a company of persons or, sometimes, animals or things, joined, acting, or functioning together; aggregation; party; troop: a band of protesters.
  • to carry the day — If someone carries the day, they are the winner in a contest such as a battle, debate, or sporting competition.
  • to draw the line — If you draw the line at a particular activity, you refuse to do it, because you disapprove of it or because it is more extreme than what you normally do.
  • toad-in-the-hole — a dish consisting of beef or pork sausages baked in a coating of batter.
  • tread the boards — to set down the foot or feet in walking; step; walk.
  • true-heartedness — the quality of being true-hearted
  • tuatha de danann — a race of gods or demigods who defeated the Fomorians and ruled Ireland during a golden age.
  • 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.
  • under the hammer — a tool consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, set crosswise on a handle, used for beating metals, driving nails, etc.
  • underpitch vault — a construction having a central vault intersected by vaults of lower pitch.
  • unmarried mother — a woman who has a baby while she is not married
  • valet de chambre — valet (def 1).
  • vitamin-enriched — having had vitamins added
  • ward christensen — (person)   The inventor of XMODEM and of the BBS. Ward did physics in college and programmed mainframes for IBM. Ward and friend Randy Suess set up their BBS on first on 1978-02-16 in Chicago. It ran on an S-100 computer with 64k RAM and two single-sided 8" 250kB diskettes.
  • way of the world — a comedy of manners (1700) by William Congreve.
  • weather advisory — advisory (def 5).
  • weighted average — a mean that is computed with extra weight given to one or more elements of the sample.
  • well-established — permanently founded; settled; firmly set: a well-established business; a well-established habit.
  • western sandwich — a sandwich with a western omelet for a filling.
  • what's the odds? — what difference does it make?
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