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18-letter words containing h, o, n, r, i

  • thirty-second rest — a rest equal in value to a thirty-second note.
  • thorfinn karlsefni — 980–after 1007, Icelandic navigator, explorer, and leader of early colonizing expedition to Vinland, in North America.
  • thought experiment — Physics. a demonstration or calculation that is based on the postulates of a theory, as relativity, and that demonstrates or clarifies the consequences of the postulates.
  • thrift-institution — economical management; economy; frugality.
  • 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 a grinding halt — If you describe a bad situation as grinding, you mean it never gets better, changes, or ends.
  • transit theodolite — a theodolite having a telescope that can be transited.
  • transmission shaft — a shaft that rotates transmitting motion from the engine to the differential gear
  • under the aegis of — guided or protected by
  • unification church — a religious sect that combines elements of Protestantism and Buddhism, founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon in 1954: many of its members live in communes sponsored by the sect.
  • urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
  • vermilion rockfish — a scarlet-red rockfish, Sebastes miniatus, inhabiting waters along the Pacific coast of North America, important as a food fish.
  • 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.
  • water on the brain — hydrocephalus.
  • westinghouse brake — a railroad air brake operated by compressed air.
  • wheelchair housing — housing designed or adapted for a chairbound person
  • white iron pyrites — marcasite
  • 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
  • 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.
  • with flying colorswith flying colors, with an overwhelming victory, triumph, or success: He passed the test with flying colors.
  • work out the kinks — If someone works out the kinks in a situation, they resolve the problems associated with it.
  • working hypothesis — See under hypothesis (def 1).
  • world championship — an international competition in a particular sport or activity for people all around the world
  • writ of attachment — a document by which a court orders the seizing of property in order to ensure satisfaction of a judgement
  • xenon hexafluoride — a colorless, crystalline compound, XeF 6 , that melts at 50°C to a yellow liquid, and boils at 75°C.
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