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18-letter words containing h, e

  • telephone sex line — a telephone line operated by a phone-sex worker that offers phone sex to paying customers
  • temporary hardness — hardness of water due to the presence of magnesium and calcium hydrogencarbonates, which can be precipitated as carbonates by boiling
  • tetrachloromethane — carbon tetrachloride.
  • 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 back of beyond — a very remote place
  • the baptist church — any of various Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of believers
  • the beautiful game — football
  • the better part of — a large part of
  • the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
  • the black and tans — a specially recruited armed auxiliary police force sent to Ireland in 1921 by the British Government to combat Sinn Féin
  • the black mountain — a mountain range in S Wales, in E Carmarthenshire and W Powys. Highest peak: Carmarthen Van, 802 m (2632 ft)
  • the blue hen state — a nickname for the state of Delaware
  • the bottomless pit — the underworld; hell
  • the cat's whiskers — a person or thing that is excellent or superior
  • the class struggle — the continual conflict between the capitalist and working classes for economic and political power
  • 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 encyclopedists — the writers of the French Encyclopedia (1751-72) edited by Diderot and d'Alembert, which contained the advanced ideas of the period
  • 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 fourth of july — a holiday in the United States, traditionally celebrated with fireworks: the day of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776
  • the french riviera — the Mediterranean coastal region of France from Cannes eastward to Italy
  • the full treatment — If you say that someone is given the full treatment, you mean either that they are treated extremely well or that they are treated extremely severely.
  • 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 heavens opened — it started pouring with rain
  • the heebie-jeebies — apprehension and nervousness
  • the hotel industry — the branch of the services industry which provides hotels
  • the hunger marches — a number of processions by unemployed workers in the 1930s to protest against unemployment and deprivation
  • 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 kinetic theory — a theory of gases postulating that they consist of particles of negligible size moving at random and undergoing elastic collisions
  • the lords temporal — (in Britain) peers other than bishops in their capacity as members of the House of Lords
  • 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 mosque of omar — the mosque in Jerusalem, Israel, built in 691 ad by caliph 'Abd al-Malik: the third most holy place of Islam; stands on the Temple Mount alongside the al-Aqsa mosque
  • the mountain state — a nickname referring to West Virginia
  • the movie industry — the industry that makes entertainment films or movies
  • the nether regions — the genitals
  • the north atlantic — the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean, especially the waters separating North America and Europe
  • the northern irish — the people who live in or come from Northern Ireland
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