16-letter words containing n, i, h, l, t
- three blind mice — nursery rhyme
- three-point line — Basketball. a field goal worth three points, made from behind a specified line (three-point line)
- three-point play — a play in which a player sinks the free throw that was awarded when the player was fouled while scoring a basket.
- thumbnail sketch — small preliminary drawing
- to draw the line — If you draw the line at a particular activity, you refuse to do it, because you disapprove of it or because it is more extreme than what you normally do.
- toad-in-the-hole — a dish consisting of beef or pork sausages baked in a coating of batter.
- topsail schooner — a sailing vessel fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts with square sails above the foresail, and often with a square sail before the foresail.
- tracheobronchial — of, relating to, or affecting the trachea and bronchi.
- trailing fuchsia — a shrub, Fuchsia procumbens, of the evening primrose family, native to New Zealand, having long-stalked leaves and drooping, orange-and-purple flowers, used in hanging baskets.
- transmethylation — the transfer of a methyl group from one compound to another.
- trichloromethane — chloroform (def 1).
- trichotillomania — a compulsion to pull out one's hair.
- tricolored heron — an American heron, Hydranassa tricolor, that is dark bluish-gray above and white below with seasonally red neck stripes in the male.
- trimethylglycine — betaine.
- triphenylmethane — a colorless, crystalline, solid compound containing three benzene rings, C 19 H 16 , from which many dyes are derived.
- underpitch vault — a construction having a central vault intersected by vaults of lower pitch.
- uninhabitability — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
- ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
- white sandalwood — the fragrant heartwood of any of certain Asian trees of the genus Santalum, used for ornamental carving and burned as incense.
- white settlement — a town in N Texas.
- wiener schnitzel — Viennese Cookery. a breaded veal cutlet, variously seasoned or garnished.
- william hamilton — (person) A mathematician who posed Hamilton's problem.
- winchester rifle — a type of magazine rifle, first made in about 1866.
- windchill factor — an estimated measurement of the cooling effect of air and wind, esp. when applied to the loss of body heat from exposed skin; chill factor
- wish fulfillment — gratification of desires.
- wishful thinking — interpretation of facts, actions, words, etc., as one would like them to be rather than as they really are; imagining as actual what is not.
- with clean hands — innocently
- zenith telescope — a telescope mounted to point only at the zenith, used at some observatories for measuring time by the stars.