18-letter words containing h, o, n, u, r
- the movie industry — the industry that makes entertainment films or movies
- the sun also rises — a novel (1926) by Ernest Hemingway.
- the uncircumcision — the gentiles
- there you go again — Phrases such as there you go again are used to show annoyance at someone who is repeating something that has annoyed you in the past.
- thermionic current — an electric current produced by the flow of thermions.
- thermoluminescence — phosphorescence produced by the heating of a substance.
- thermonuclear bomb — hydrogen bomb.
- thin on the ground — If people or things of a particular kind are thin on the ground, there are very few of them.
- thioarsenious acid — any of a group of hypothetical acids, H3AsS3, HAsS2, and H4As2S5, known only in the forms of their salts
- 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.
- to open your heart — If you open your heart or pour out your heart to someone, you tell them your most private thoughts and feelings.
- turn on one's heel — to turn around abruptly
- 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.
- 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).
- westinghouse brake — a railroad air brake operated by compressed air.
- wheelchair housing — housing designed or adapted for a chairbound person
- work out the kinks — If someone works out the kinks in a situation, they resolve the problems associated with it.
- xenon hexafluoride — a colorless, crystalline compound, XeF 6 , that melts at 50°C to a yellow liquid, and boils at 75°C.