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18-letter words containing r, h, i

  • technical reserves — Technical reserves are amounts of money set aside to pay for underwriting liabilities.
  • technical sergeant — a noncommissioned officer ranking below a master sergeant and above a staff sergeant.
  • telephone receiver — a device, as in a telephone, that converts changes in an electric current into sound.
  • the american dream — the notion that the American social, economic, and political system makes success possible for every individual
  • the baptist church — any of various Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of believers
  • the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
  • the cat's whiskers — a person or thing that is excellent or superior
  • the coast is clear — If you say that the coast is clear, you mean that there is nobody around to see you or catch you.
  • the dark continent — a term for Africa when it was relatively unexplored
  • the electric chair — an electrified chair for executing criminals
  • the electronic age — the electronic age began when electronic equipment, including computers came into use
  • the first sea lord — the senior of the two serving naval officers who sits on the admiralty board of the Ministry of Defence
  • the french riviera — the Mediterranean coastal region of France from Cannes eastward to Italy
  • the general public — the people in a society; people in general
  • the grand national — an annual steeplechase run at Aintree, Liverpool, since 1839
  • the hotel industry — the branch of the services industry which provides hotels
  • the internationale — a revolutionary socialist hymn, first sung in 1871 in France
  • the kinetic theory — a theory of gases postulating that they consist of particles of negligible size moving at random and undergoing elastic collisions
  • 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 movie industry — the industry that makes entertainment films or movies
  • the nether regions — the genitals
  • the north atlantic — the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean, especially the waters separating North America and Europe
  • the northern irish — the people who live in or come from Northern Ireland
  • the operative word — If you describe a word as the operative word, you want to draw attention to it because you think it is important or exactly true in a particular situation.
  • the practicalities — the real facts or details of a situation, as opposed to its theoretical aspects
  • the sun also rises — a novel (1926) by Ernest Hemingway.
  • the three wise men — the wise men from the east who came to do homage to the infant Jesus
  • the uncircumcision — the gentiles
  • the-cocktail-party — a play in verse (1950) by T. S. Eliot.
  • the-dark-continent — Africa: so called, especially during the 19th century, because little was known about it.
  • the-master-builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • 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.
  • there's no telling — You use there's no telling to introduce a statement when you want to say that it is impossible to know what will happen in a situation.
  • therese de lisieux — Saint (Marie Françoise Thérèse Martin"the Little Flower") 1873–97, French Carmelite nun.
  • 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.
  • thin on the ground — If people or things of a particular kind are thin on the ground, there are very few of them.
  • think the world of — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
  • thioarsenious acid — any of a group of hypothetical acids, H3AsS3, HAsS2, and H4As2S5, known only in the forms of their salts
  • thiosulphuric acid — an unstable acid known only in solutions and in the form of its salts. Formula: H2S2O3
  • 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
  • thirty-second note — a note having 1/32 of the time value of a whole note; demi-semiquaver.
  • thirty-second rest — a rest equal in value to a thirty-second note.
  • thiruvananthapuram — a state in SW India: formerly the regions of Travancore and Cochin. 15,005 sq. mi. (38,836 sq. km). Capital: Thiruvananthapuram.
  • thorfinn karlsefni — 980–after 1007, Icelandic navigator, explorer, and leader of early colonizing expedition to Vinland, in North America.
  • 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.
  • threatened species — a species likely, in the near future, to become an endangered species within all or much of its range.
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