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18-letter words containing h, e, r, o, l, i

  • teacher evaluation — the process of vetting teachers to maintain teaching standards
  • telephone receiver — a device, as in a telephone, that converts changes in an electric current into sound.
  • the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
  • 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 electronic age — the electronic age began when electronic equipment, including computers came into use
  • the first sea lord — the senior of the two serving naval officers who sits on the admiralty board of the Ministry of Defence
  • the grand national — an annual steeplechase run at Aintree, Liverpool, since 1839
  • the hotel industry — the branch of the services industry which provides hotels
  • the internationale — a revolutionary socialist hymn, first sung in 1871 in France
  • the north atlantic — the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean, especially the waters separating North America and Europe
  • the sun also rises — a novel (1926) by Ernest Hemingway.
  • the-cocktail-party — a play in verse (1950) by T. S. Eliot.
  • 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's no telling — You use there's no telling to introduce a statement when you want to say that it is impossible to know what will happen in a situation.
  • thermoluminescence — phosphorescence produced by the heating of a substance.
  • think the world of — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
  • thorfinn karlsefni — 980–after 1007, Icelandic navigator, explorer, and leader of early colonizing expedition to Vinland, in North America.
  • throw in the towel — an absorbent cloth or paper for wiping and drying something wet, as one for the hands, face, or body after washing or bathing.
  • throw oneself into — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
  • to raise the alarm — If you raise the alarm or sound the alarm, you warn people of danger.
  • transit theodolite — a theodolite having a telescope that can be transited.
  • upper palaeolithic — the latest of the three periods of the Palaeolithic, beginning about 40 000 bc and ending, in Europe, about 12 000 bc: characterized by the emergence of modern man, Homo sapiens
  • vermilion rockfish — a scarlet-red rockfish, Sebastes miniatus, inhabiting waters along the Pacific coast of North America, important as a food fish.
  • wheelchair housing — housing designed or adapted for a chairbound person
  • white-collar crime — any of various crimes, as embezzlement, fraud, or stealing office equipment, committed by business or professional people while working at their occupations.
  • wilson's phalarope — a phalarope, Phalaropus tricolor, that breeds in the prairie regions of North America and winters in Argentina and Chile.
  • wireless telephone — Now Rare. radiotelephony.
  • wireless telephony — Now Rare. radiotelephony.
  • xenon hexafluoride — a colorless, crystalline compound, XeF 6 , that melts at 50°C to a yellow liquid, and boils at 75°C.
  • yelloweye rockfish — a red rockfish, Sebastes ruberrimus, of waters along the Pacific coast of North America, having eyes that are yellow and possessed of strong, sawlike bony ridges on the head.
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