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18-letter words containing s, a, h, i

  • take sth literally — If you take something literally, you think that a word or expression is being used with its most simple or basic meaning.
  • talk between ships — TBS (def 1).
  • tan someone's hide — to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.
  • teaching assistant — a graduate student in a college or university who is the recipient of a teaching fellowship. Abbreviation: TA.
  • 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.
  • that's the ticket! — that's the correct or proper thing! that's right!
  • 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 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 final solution — the code name used by the Nazis to refer to the plan of mass murder of the Jews
  • the first sea lord — the senior of the two serving naval officers who sits on the admiralty board of the Ministry of Defence
  • the intelligentsia — the educated or intellectual people in a society or community
  • the magnolia state — a nickname referring to Mississippi
  • 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 middle passage — the journey across the Atlantic Ocean from the W coast of Africa to the Caribbean: the longest part of the journey of the slave ships sailing to the Caribbean or the Americas
  • the mountain state — a nickname referring to West Virginia
  • the practicalities — the real facts or details of a situation, as opposed to its theoretical aspects
  • the south atlantic — the part of the Atlantic Ocean that lies to the south of the equator
  • the sun also rises — a novel (1926) by Ernest Hemingway.
  • the sunshine state — the nickname of the US state of Florida, which comes from its sunny climate
  • the-master-builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • 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
  • thomas alva edison — Thomas Alva [al-vuh] /ˈæl və/ (Show IPA), 1847–1931, U.S. inventor, especially of electrical devices.
  • thorfinn karlsefni — 980–after 1007, Icelandic navigator, explorer, and leader of early colonizing expedition to Vinland, in North America.
  • threatened species — a species likely, in the near future, to become an endangered species within all or much of its range.
  • thrills and spills — If you refer to thrills and spills, you are referring to an experience which is exciting and full of surprises.
  • tick all the boxes — to satisfy all of the apparent requirements for success
  • to be said for sth — If you say there is a lot to be said for something, you mean you think it has a lot of good qualities or aspects.
  • to lick into shape — If you lick, knock, or whip someone or something into shape, you use whatever methods are necessary to change or improve them so that they are in the condition that you want them to be in.
  • to pick and choose — If you pick and choose, you carefully choose only things that you really want and reject the others.
  • to raise the alarm — If you raise the alarm or sound the alarm, you warn people of danger.
  • to spill the beans — If you spill the beans, you tell someone something that people have been trying to keep secret.
  • to stop at nothing — If you say that someone will stop at nothing to get something, you are emphasizing that they are willing to do things that are extreme, wrong, or dangerous in order to get it.
  • transit theodolite — a theodolite having a telescope that can be transited.
  • transmission shaft — a shaft that rotates transmitting motion from the engine to the differential gear
  • triphosphoric acid — the hypothetical acid H 5 P 3 O 10 , known chiefly by its salts.
  • under the aegis of — guided or protected by
  • unenthusiastically — full of or characterized by enthusiasm; ardent: He seems very enthusiastic about his role in the play.
  • urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
  • warehouse capacity — the amount of storage space in a warehouse
  • welland ship canal — a ship canal in S Canada, in Ontario, connecting Lakes Erie and Ontario: 8 locks. 25 miles (40 km) long.
  • wernicke's aphasia — a type of aphasia caused by a lesion in Wernicke's area of the brain and characterized by grammatical but more or less meaningless speech and an apparent inability to comprehend speech.
  • wesleyan methodist — a member of any of the churches founded on the evangelical principles of John Wesley.
  • westinghouse brake — a railroad air brake operated by compressed air.
  • wheelchair housing — housing designed or adapted for a chairbound person
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