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16-letter words containing h, i, n, t, e, r

  • sth rings a bell — If you say that something rings a bell, you mean that it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is.
  • strain hardening — a process in which a metal is permanently deformed in order to increase its resistance to further deformation
  • streak lightning — lightning in which there is a sudden flash from what appears to be a single main line
  • street christian — (especially in the 1960s) a Christian whose religious life centers more in social or communal groups than in institutional churches.
  • string orchestra — an orchestra consisting only of violins, violas, cellos, and double basses
  • summer lightning — distant sheet lightning without audible thunder, which typically occurs on a summer evening
  • sushi restaurant — a restaurant serving sushi
  • synthetic rubber — any of several substances similar to natural rubber in properties and uses, produced by the polymerization of an unsaturated hydrocarbon, as butylene or isoprene, or by the copolymerization of such hydrocarbons with styrene, butadiene, or the like.
  • take a raincheck — to accept the postponement of an offer
  • teacher training — practical teaching course
  • tensile strength — the resistance of a material to longitudinal stress, measured by the minimum amount of longitudinal stress required to rupture the material.
  • tetrahydrozoline — a compound, C 13 H 16 N 2 , used in the treatment of nasal congestion and certain conditions of eye irritation.
  • the arabian gulf — the arm of the Arabian Sea between SW Iran and Arabia; important for the oilfields on its shores
  • the eternal city — Rome
  • the fact remains — You say the fact remains that something is the case when you want to emphasize that the situation must be accepted.
  • the foreign-born — immigrants of a country
  • the herring-pond — the Atlantic Ocean
  • the high country — sheep pastures in the foothills of the Southern Alps, New Zealand
  • the holy trinity — God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit
  • the king country — an area in the centre of North Island, New Zealand: home of the King Movement, a nineteenth-century Māori separatist movement
  • the lion's share — the largest portion
  • the morn's nicht — tomorrow night
  • the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
  • the nitty-gritty — the basic facts of a matter, situation, etc; the core
  • the oil industry — the industry that produces and delivers petroleum and petroleum products
  • the preconscious — preconscious mental activity
  • the resurrection — the rising of Jesus from the dead after his death and burial
  • the roaring days — the period of the Australian goldrushes
  • the sex industry — a commercial sector that employs sex workers in prostitution, pornography, etc.
  • the silver ferns — the women's international netball team of New Zealand
  • the swiss-french — people from French-speaking Switzerland
  • the virgin queen — another name for Queen Elizabeth I of England
  • the written word — writing rather than speaking
  • theatre-francais — Comédie Française.
  • theatrical agent — an intermediary who brings together actors who are seeking work and theatre producers who are offering parts
  • thermal analysis — any analysis of materials in which properties relating to heat, such as freezing and boiling temperatures, the heat of fusion, the heat of vaporization, etc., are measured.
  • thermal cracking — Thermal cracking is an extraction process in which hydrocarbons such as crude oil are heated to a high temperature to break the molecular bonds.
  • thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
  • thermoanesthesia — thermanesthesia.
  • thermoregulation — the regulation of body temperature.
  • thinking pattern — manner of thinking
  • thioarsenic acid — any of three hypothetical acids, H3AsS4, HAsS3, and H4As2S7, known only in the forms of their salts
  • thionyl chloride — a clear, pale yellow or red, fuming, corrosive liquid, SOCl 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • thirteenth chord — a chord much used in jazz and pop, consisting of a major or minor triad upon which are superimposed the seventh, ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth above the root
  • this-worldliness — concern or preoccupation with worldly things and values.
  • three blind mice — nursery rhyme
  • three-point line — Basketball. a field goal worth three points, made from behind a specified line (three-point line)
  • three-point play — a play in which a player sinks the free throw that was awarded when the player was fouled while scoring a basket.
  • three-point turn — When the driver of a vehicle does a three-point turn, he or she turns the vehicle by driving forwards in a curve, then backwards in a curve, and then forwards in a curve.
  • throat infection — an infection or inflammation of the throat or pharynx
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