14-letter words containing h, i, e, r, a
- the milk train — a very early morning train, that traditionally transported milk, on which passengers also travelled
- the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
- the real thing — If you say that a thing or event is the real thing, you mean that it is the thing or event itself, rather than an imitation or copy.
- 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 roman rite — the liturgical rite used in the Diocese of Rome
- the royal mail — the national postal service of the United Kingdom
- the samaritans — a voluntary organization which offers counselling to people in despair, esp by telephone
- 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 three magi — the wise men from the East who came to do homage to the infant Jesus (Matthew 2:1–12) and traditionally called Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar
- the very idea! — that is preposterous, unreasonable, etc
- the-federalist — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
- the-pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
- therianthropic — being partly bestial and partly human in form.
- thermaesthesia — ability to perceive or sense cold or heat; sensitiveness to heat.
- thermal imager — a piece of equipment used to detect or provide images of people or things
- thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
- 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.
- thermolability — the state of being unstable or subject to transformation or destruction when heated
- thermomagnetic — of or relating to the effect of heat on the magnetic properties of a substance.
- 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.
- third quartile — (in a frequency distribution) the largest quartile; the 75th percentile; the value of the variable below which three quarters of the elements are located.
- thread rolling — the production of a screw thread by a rolling swaging process using hardened profiled rollers. Rolled threads are stronger than threads machined by a cutting tool
- three-base hit — triple (def 7).
- throat seizing — cuckold's knot.
- thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
- trade-weighted — (of exchange rates) weighted according to the volume of trade between the various countries involved
- training shoes — running shoes for sports training, esp in contrast to studded or spiked shoes worn for the sport itself
- trichloracetic — as in trichloracetic acid
- trichobacteria — filamentous bacteria
- trichomonacide — an agent that destroys trichomonads
- trickle charge — a continuous, slow charge supplied to a storage battery to keep it in a fully charged state.
- trihalomethane — a type of chemical compound in which three of the hydrogen atoms in a methane molecule have been replaced by halogen atoms, esp by chlorine in drinking water. Trihalomethanes are thought to be carcinogenic
- triiodomethane — iodoform.
- trimethylamine — a colourless, flammable liquid with a strong, fishy odour
- triphenylamine — a molecule consisting of a nitrogen atom with three phenyl groups attached to it
- trisoctahedron — a solid bounded by 24 identical faces in groups of three, each group corresponding to one face of an octahedron.
- turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
- turing machine — a hypothetical device with a set of logical rules of computation: the concept is used in mathematical studies of the computability of numbers and in the mathematical theories of automata and computers.
- tymshare, inc. — (company) The US company that created the TYMNET network.
- tyrrhenian sea — a part of the Mediterranean, bounded by W Italy, Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily.
- unapprehensive — slow to understand; not intelligent
- unchristianize — to make unchristian; to render no longer Christian; to remove Christian status or nature from
- undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- under-achiever — a student who performs less well in school than would be expected on the basis of abilities indicated by intelligence and aptitude tests, etc.
- underemphasize — to give less than sufficient emphasis to; minimize.