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15-letter words containing r, o, t, h, e

  • the lower ranks — people who have a low rank in a military organization
  • the lower rhine — the part of the Rhine River between Bonn, Germany, and the North Sea, and the area around it
  • the motor trade — the business of selling and buying cars and other road vehicles
  • the other place — (at Oxford University) Cambridge University
  • the other thing — an unexpressed alternative
  • the other woman — married man's female lover
  • the outward man — the body as opposed to the soul
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • the phanerozoic — the Phanerozoic 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 restoration — the reestablishment of the monarchy in England in 1660 under Charles II
  • the riot police — the section of the police force that is trained to deal with people who cause trouble in public places
  • the rule of law — the principle that no one is above the law and that everyone must follow the law
  • the second form — the second year of secondary school
  • the small hours — If something happens in the early hours or in the small hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.
  • the smart money — If you say that the smart money is on a particular person or thing, you mean that people who know a lot about it think that this person will be successful, or this thing will happen.
  • the underground — an electric passenger railway operated in underground tunnels
  • the upper karoo — one of the two divisions of the Karoo
  • the war-wounded — those people who have been injured or wounded by war
  • the way forward — how to progress, what to do next
  • the working man — working class people collectively
  • the wrong track — the incorrect line of investigation, inquiry, etc
  • the-ambassadors — a novel (1903) by Henry James.
  • the-arbitration — a comedy (c300 b.c.) by Menander, extant only as a fragment.
  • theatre company — an organization that produces theatrical performances
  • theory of games — game theory.
  • theory of types — a theory advanced by Bertrand Russell to avoid the liar paradox, Russell's paradox, etc, in which a class of expressions or of the entities they represent can all enter into the same syntactic relations
  • theriomorphosis — transformation into an animal form, often associated with mythological characters
  • thermal equator — an imaginary line round the earth running through the point on each meridian with the highest average temperature. It lies mainly to the north because of the larger landmasses and therefore greater summer heating
  • thermal neutron — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
  • thermal reactor — a nuclear reactor in which most of the fission is caused by thermal neutrons
  • thermionic tube — a vacuum tube in which the cathode is heated electrically to cause the emission of electrons by thermal agitation.
  • thermobarograph — a device that simultaneously records the temperature and pressure of the atmosphere
  • thermobarometer — Also called hypsometer. an instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure, and sometimes altitude, from its effect upon the boiling point of a liquid.
  • thermochemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with the relationship between chemical action and heat.
  • thermodiffusion — thermal diffusion.
  • thermogeography — the study of the geographical variation and distribution of temperature.
  • thermoperiodism — the effect on an organism of rhythmic fluctuations in temperature.
  • thermoremanence — the state or quality of being thermoremanent
  • thermosensitive — readily affected by heat or a change in temperature.
  • think better of — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
  • think you're it — If you say that someone thinks they're it, you mean that they think they are better or more important than they really are.
  • thioallyl ether — allyl sulfide.
  • thiobarbiturate — a barbiturate in which a sulphur atom has replaced one oxygen atom
  • thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
  • third dimension — the additional dimension by which a solid object is distinguished from a planar projection of itself or from any planar object.
  • thirtysomething — a person in her or his thirties
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