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15-letter words containing i, h, r

  • tectibranchiate — denoting or relating to the suborder of molluscs Tectibranchia
  • telegraphically — of or relating to the telegraph.
  • tetrabranchiate — belonging or pertaining to the Nautiloidea (Tetrabranchiata), a subclass or order of cephalopods with four gills, including the pearly nautilus and numerous fossil forms.
  • thalassographic — relating to thalassography
  • thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
  • thankworthiness — the state or quality of being thankworthy or deserving thanks
  • the affirmative — the side in a debate that supports the proposition
  • the anglo-irish — the inhabitants of Ireland of English birth or descent
  • the cesarewitch — a long-distance horserace run each year in October at Newmarket racecourse
  • the cordilleras — the complex of mountain ranges on the W side of the Americas, extending from Alaska to Cape Horn and including the Andes and the Rocky Mountains
  • the crucifixion — the crucifying of Christ at Calvary, regarded by Christians as the culminating redemptive act of his ministry
  • the daily round — the usual activities of one's day
  • the disappeared — people who have been arrested secretly or abuducted and presumably imprisoned or killed
  • the everlasting — God
  • the first thing — even one thing
  • the first-named — something that is specified or named first
  • the grim reaper — death
  • the high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority in a dispute
  • the incarnation — the taking on of a human body by the second person of the Trinity; the joining of the divine and the human in Jesus Christ
  • the jury is out — If you say that the jury is out or that the jury is still out on a particular subject, you mean that people in general have still not made a decision or formed an opinion about that subject.
  • the lost tribes — the ten tribes deported from the N kingdom of Israel in 721 bc and believed never to have returned to Palestine
  • the lower rhine — the part of the Rhine River between Bonn, Germany, and the North Sea, and the area around it
  • the other thing — an unexpressed alternative
  • the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • the phanerozoic — the Phanerozoic era
  • the precambrian — the Precambrian era
  • the prime mover — God, esp when considered as a first cause
  • the proprieties — the standards of behaviour considered correct by polite society
  • the proterozoic — the Proterozoic Eon or its rocks
  • the reformation — the 16th-cent. religious movement that aimed at reforming the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in establishing the Protestant churches
  • the renaissance — the period of European history marking the waning of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world: usually considered as beginning in Italy in the 14th century
  • the restoration — the reestablishment of the monarchy in England in 1660 under Charles II
  • the right track — the correct line of investigation, inquiry, etc
  • the riot police — the section of the police force that is trained to deal with people who cause trouble in public places
  • the saint leger — an annual horse race run at Doncaster since 1776: one of the classics of the flat-racing season
  • the santa maria — the flagship of Columbus on his first voyage to America (1492)
  • the square mile — the area in central London in which the United Kingdom's major financial business is transacted
  • the undersigned — the person or persons who have signed at the foot of a document, statement, etc
  • the upper rhine — the section of the Rhine between Basel, Switzerland and Bingen, Germany
  • the wherewithal — necessary funds, resources, or equipment (for something or to do something)
  • the working man — working class people collectively
  • the-arbitration — a comedy (c300 b.c.) by Menander, extant only as a fragment.
  • theatrical film — a film made for exhibition in theaters, as distinguished from one made for television.
  • theft insurance — insurance against loss or damage of property resulting from theft.
  • therapeutically — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
  • theriomorphosis — transformation into an animal form, often associated with mythological characters
  • thermal barrier — the high temperatures produced by the friction between a supersonic object and the earth's atmosphere that limit the speed of an airplane or rocket.
  • thermal imaging — Thermal imaging is the use of special equipment that can detect the heat produced by people or things and use it to produce images of them.
  • thermal printer — a printer that produces output by selectively heating a heat-sensitive paper (thermal paper) in patterns corresponding to the characters to be produced.
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