18-letter words containing h, o, n, e, d
- temporary hardness — hardness of water due to the presence of magnesium and calcium hydrogencarbonates, which can be precipitated as carbonates by boiling
- the back of beyond — a very remote place
- the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
- 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 encyclopedists — the writers of the French Encyclopedia (1751-72) edited by Diderot and d'Alembert, which contained the advanced ideas of the period
- 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 hotel industry — the branch of the services industry which provides hotels
- the movie industry — the industry that makes entertainment films or movies
- the-dark-continent — Africa: so called, especially during the 19th century, because little was known about it.
- thin on the ground — If people or things of a particular kind are thin on the ground, there are very few of them.
- think the world of — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
- thioarsenious acid — any of a group of hypothetical acids, H3AsS3, HAsS2, and H4As2S5, known only in the forms of their salts
- thirty-second note — a note having 1/32 of the time value of a whole note; demi-semiquaver.
- thirty-second rest — a rest equal in value to a thirty-second note.
- thomas alva edison — Thomas Alva [al-vuh] /ˈæl və/ (Show IPA), 1847–1931, U.S. inventor, especially of electrical devices.
- three-cornered hat — a triangular shaped hat which was popular in the 17th and 18th centuries; its turned up brim formed a gutter for catching rain
- to be on the radar — to be noticed or important
- to come unstitched — to go wrong or awry
- to get wind of sth — If you get wind of something, you hear about it, especially when someone else did not want you to know about it.
- to pick and choose — If you pick and choose, you carefully choose only things that you really want and reject the others.
- townsend avalanche — avalanche (def 3).
- transit theodolite — a theodolite having a telescope that can be transited.
- turn one's hand to — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- under one's breath — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
- under the aegis of — guided or protected by
- under the jackboot — If a country or group of people is under the jackboot, they are suffering because the government is cruel and undemocratic.
- urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
- water of hydration — the portion of a hydrate that is represented as, or can be expelled as, water: now usually regarded as being in true molecular combination with the other atoms of the compound, and not existing in the compound as water.
- wesleyan methodist — a member of any of the churches founded on the evangelical principles of John Wesley.
- west-northwestward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the west-northwest.
- white-faced hornet — any large, stinging paper wasp of the family Vespidae, as Vespa crabro (giant hornet) introduced into the U.S. from Europe, or Vespula maculata (bald-faced hornet or white-faced hornet) of North America.
- white-fronted tern — a coastal bird of New Zealand and SE Australia, Sterna striata, with a long black bill, a white breast, and a forked tail
- widemouth blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
- woman of the world — a woman experienced and sophisticated in the ways and manners of the world, especially the world of society.
- xenon hexafluoride — a colorless, crystalline compound, XeF 6 , that melts at 50°C to a yellow liquid, and boils at 75°C.