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18-letter words containing i, n, t, h, e, m

  • take it on the lam — a hasty escape; flight.
  • tan someone's hide — to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.
  • teaching equipment — teaching aids
  • the american dream — the notion that the American social, economic, and political system makes success possible for every individual
  • the black mountain — a mountain range in S Wales, in E Carmarthenshire and W Powys. Highest peak: Carmarthen Van, 802 m (2632 ft)
  • 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 dismal science — a name for economics coined by Thomas Carlyle
  • the hand of fatima — a symbol of a hand used in some Arabic countries to protect against the evil eye, a magical power
  • the magnolia state — a nickname referring to Mississippi
  • the major rogation — April 25, observed by Christians as a day of solemn supplication for the harvest and marked by processions, special prayers, and blessing of the crops
  • 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 mountain state — a nickname referring to West Virginia
  • the movie industry — the industry that makes entertainment films or movies
  • the three wise men — the wise men from the east who came to do homage to the infant Jesus
  • the uncircumcision — the gentiles
  • thermal efficiency — the ratio of the work output of a heat engine to the heat input expressed in the same units of energy.
  • thermionic current — an electric current produced by the flow of thermions.
  • thermoluminescence — phosphorescence produced by the heating of a substance.
  • 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
  • thomas alva edison — Thomas Alva [al-vuh] /ˈæl və/ (Show IPA), 1847–1931, U.S. inventor, especially of electrical devices.
  • 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.
  • to come unstitched — to go wrong or awry
  • triarylmethane dye — any of the class of dyes containing three aryl groups attached to a central carbon atom: used chiefly for dyeing cotton, wool, and silk.
  • urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
  • vitamin a aldehyde — retinal2 .
  • wesleyan methodist — a member of any of the churches founded on the evangelical principles of John Wesley.
  • western hemisphere — the western part of the terrestrial globe, including North and South America, their islands, and the surrounding waters.
  • white man's burden — the alleged duty of white colonizers to care for nonwhite indigenous subjects in their colonial possessions.
  • widemouth blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
  • writ of attachment — a document by which a court orders the seizing of property in order to ensure satisfaction of a judgement
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