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18-letter words containing h, u, t, e, r

  • the hunger marches — a number of processions by unemployed workers in the 1930s to protest against unemployment and deprivation
  • the masurian lakes — a group of lakes in Masuria in NE Poland: scene of Russian defeats by the Germans (1914, 1915) during World War I
  • the mosque of omar — the mosque in Jerusalem, Israel, built in 691 ad by caliph 'Abd al-Malik: the third most holy place of Islam; stands on the Temple Mount alongside the al-Aqsa mosque
  • 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
  • the weather bureau — the national agency responsible for collecting data about the weather and issuing forecasts
  • the-master-builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • theater of cruelty — a form of surrealist theater originated by Antonin Artaud and emphasizing the cruelty of human existence by portraying sadistic acts and intense suffering.
  • theatre of cruelty — a type of theatre advocated by Antonin Artaud in Le Théâtre et son double that seeks to communicate to its audience a sense of pain, suffering, and evil, using gesture, movement, sound, and symbolism rather than language
  • theodore gericault — (Jean Louis André) Théodore [zhahn lwee ahn-drey tey-aw-dawr] /ʒɑ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈdreɪ teɪ ɔˈdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1791–1824, French painter.
  • 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.
  • therese de lisieuxSaint (Marie Françoise Thérèse Martin"the Little Flower") 1873–97, French Carmelite nun.
  • 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
  • third man argument — (in the philosophy of Aristotle) the argument against the existence of Platonic Forms that since the Form of Man is itself a perfect man, a further form (the "third" man) would be required to explain this, and so ad infinitum
  • 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.
  • three-quarter time — the meter of a musical composition having a time signature of 3/4 and three quarter notes or their equivalent in each measure.
  • to be caught short — If you are caught short or are taken short, you feel a sudden strong need to urinate, especially when you cannot easily find a toilet.
  • to cool your heels — If you are cooling your heels, someone is deliberately keeping you waiting, so that you get bored or impatient.
  • to cut the mustard — If someone does not cut the mustard, their work or their performance is not as good as it should be or as good as it is expected to be.
  • to grit your teeth — If you grit your teeth, you make up your mind to carry on even if the situation is very difficult.
  • to hold your peace — If you hold or keep your peace, you do not speak, even though there is something you want or ought to say.
  • to meet your match — If you meet your match, you find that you are competing or fighting against someone who you cannot beat because they are as good as you, or better than you.
  • 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.
  • to watch your step — If someone tells you to watch your step, they are warning you to be careful about how you behave or what you say so that you do not get into trouble.
  • traveller's cheque — Traveller's cheques are cheques that you buy at a bank and take with you when you travel, for example so that you can exchange them for the currency of the country that you are in.
  • turk's-head cactus — a cactus, Melocactus communis, of Jamaica, having needlelike spines and a cylindrical body with a tawny-red, fezlike terminal part bearing red flowers.
  • 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.
  • university heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • upper klamath lake — See under Klamath Lakes.
  • upper palaeolithic — the latest of the three periods of the Palaeolithic, beginning about 40 000 bc and ending, in Europe, about 12 000 bc: characterized by the emergence of modern man, Homo sapiens
  • ur of the chaldees — the city where Abraham was born, sometimes identified with the Sumerian city of Ur. Gen. 11:28, 31; 15:7; Neh. 9:7.
  • urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
  • warehouse capacity — the amount of storage space in a warehouse
  • wave of the future — a trend or development that may influence or become a significant part of the future: Computerization is the wave of the future.
  • west-southwestward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the west-southwest.
  • westinghouse brake — a railroad air brake operated by compressed air.
  • where you left off — If something continues from where it left off, it starts happening again at the point where it had previously stopped.
  • white man's burden — the alleged duty of white colonizers to care for nonwhite indigenous subjects in their colonial possessions.
  • white trumpet lily — a lily, Lilium longiflorum, of Japan, having fragrant, pure white, trumpet-shaped flowers nearly 7 inches (18 cm) in length.
  • work out the kinks — If someone works out the kinks in a situation, they resolve the problems associated with it.
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