15-letter words containing n, i, h, l, t
- southern lights — aurora australis.
- spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
- spill the beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
- spin the bottle — a game in which someone spins a bottle and receives a kiss from the person at whom the bottle points on coming to rest.
- spit and polish — great care in maintaining smart appearance and crisp efficiency: The commander was concerned more with spit and polish than with the company's morale.
- starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
- stillson wrench — a large wrench having adjustable jaws that tighten as the pressure on the handle is increased
- street lighting — the provision of lighting at night in public places to illuminate the streets
- strobe lighting — a high-intensity flashing beam of light produced by rapid electrical discharges in a tube or by a perforated disc rotating in front of an intense light source: used in discotheques, etc
- sycophantically — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- talking machine — Older Use. a phonograph.
- teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
- techno-thriller — a suspense novel in which the manipulation of sophisticated technology, as of aircraft or weapons systems, plays a prominent part.
- technologically — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
- the anglo-irish — the inhabitants of Ireland of English birth or descent
- the colophonian — a native of Colophon.
- the daily round — the usual activities of one's day
- the devil's own — a very difficult or problematic (thing)
- the everlasting — God
- the living dead — dead people that have been brought back to life by a supernatural force
- the lower rhine — the part of the Rhine River between Bonn, Germany, and the North Sea, and the area around it
- the pleistocene — the Pleistocene epoch or rock series
- the saint leger — an annual horse race run at Doncaster since 1776: one of the classics of the flat-racing season
- the ultimate in — The ultimate in something is the best or most advanced example of it.
- 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.
- thimble-rigging — a sleight-of-hand swindling game in which the operator palms a pellet or pea while appearing to cover it with one of three thimblelike cups, and then, moving the cups about, offers to bet that no one can tell under which cup the pellet or pea lies.
- thing-in-itself — reality as it is apart from experience; what remains to be postulated after space, time, and all the categories of the understanding are assigned to consciousness. Compare noumenon (def 3).
- think little of — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
- thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
- third ventricle — one of the four cavities of the brain, lying on the midline between the cerebral hemispheres
- thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
- thousand island — of or relating to the Thousand Islands or their inhabitants
- three-line whip — A three-line whip is a situation where the MPs in a political party are ordered to attend parliament and vote in a particular way on a particular issue.
- thursday island — an island in Torres Strait between NE Australia and New Guinea; part of Queensland: pearl fishing. 1½ sq. mi. (4 sq. km).
- thyrocalcitonin — calcitonin
- tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
- time and a half — a rate of pay for overtime work equal to one and one half times the regular hourly wage.
- top-of-the-line — being the best and usually the most expensive of its kind: The company previewed its top-of-the-line carpeting.
- training school — a school that provides training in some art, profession, or vocation.
- training wheels — a pair of small wheels attached one on each side of the rear wheel of a bicycle for stability while one is learning to ride.
- trans-himalayan — the, a mountain range extending about 1500 miles (2400 km) along the border between India and Tibet. Highest peak, Mt. Everest, 29,028 feet (8848 meters).
- transhistorical — occurring throughout all human history
- tribromoethanol — a white, crystalline powder, C 2 H 3 Br 3 O, used as a basal anesthetic.
- trichloroethane — a volatile nonflammable colourless liquid with low toxicity used for cleaning electrical apparatus and as a solvent; 1,2,3-trichloroethane. Formula: CH3CCl3
- trichomonacidal — relating to a trichomonacide
- troubleshooting — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
- twitching trail — a logging road sufficiently developed to allow the hauling of logs along it by horse or tractor.
- tyrwhitt-wilson — Gerald Hugh, 14th Baron Berners [bur-nerz] /ˈbɜr nərz/ (Show IPA), 1883–1950, English composer, painter, and author.
- unaesthetically — offensive to the aesthetic sense; lacking in beauty or sensory appeal; unpleasant, as an object, design, arrangement, etc.: an unaesthetic combination of colors.