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10-letter words containing t, e, l, h

  • tetherball — a game for two persons, in which each player, standing on each side of a post from the top of which a ball is suspended by a cord, hits the ball with the hand or a paddle in a direction opposite to that in which the other player hits it, the object being to coil the cord completely around the post.
  • tetraethyl — containing four ethyl groups.
  • tetrathlon — a contest featuring four sporting disciplines
  • thailander — Also called Thailander [tahy-lan-der, -luh n-] /ˈtaɪˌlæn dər, -lən-/ (Show IPA). a native or descendant of a native of Thailand.
  • the animal — animal nature; animality
  • the bottle — drinking of alcohol, esp to excess
  • the cellar — the lowest position, as in the relative standing of competing teams
  • the deluge — the great flood in Noah's time: Gen. 7
  • the devil! — used in such phrases as what the devil, where the devil, etc
  • the flicks — the cinema
  • the galaxy — the spiral galaxy, approximately 100 000 light years in diameter, that contains the solar system about three fifths of the distance from its centre
  • the latest — most recent; current: latest fashions.
  • the letter — the strict legalistic or pedantic interpretation of the meaning of an agreement, document, etc; exact wording as distinct from actual intention (esp in the phrase the letter of the law)
  • the levant — a former name for the area of the E Mediterranean now occupied by Lebanon, Syria, and Israel
  • the litany — a form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations, each followed by an unvarying response
  • the living — those that are still alive
  • the lizard — a promontory in SW England, in SW Cornwall: the southernmost point in Great Britain
  • the occult — the occult arts or studies
  • the people — the mass of persons without special distinction, privileges, etc
  • the plough — the group of the seven brightest stars in the constellation Ursa Major
  • the police — the organized civil force of a state, concerned with maintenance of law and order, the detection and prevention of crime, etc
  • the pulpit — the preaching of the Christian message
  • the purple — high rank; nobility
  • the rabble — the common people
  • the salish — the peoples collectively who speak these languages, divided in Canada into the Coast Salish and the Interior Salish
  • the scales — the constellation Libra, the seventh sign of the zodiac
  • the solent — a strait of the English Channel between the coast of Hampshire, on the English mainland, and the Isle of Wight. Width: up to 6 km (4 miles)
  • the tables — laws, as the Ten Commandments or ancient Roman codes, inscribed on flat stone slabs
  • the twelve — the Twelve Apostles
  • the wirral — a peninsula in NW England between the estuaries of the Rivers Mersey and Dee
  • the-castle — German Das Schloss. a novel (1926) by Franz Kafka.
  • the-clouds — a comedy (423 b.c.) by Aristophanes.
  • the-dalles — The, a city in N Oregon.
  • the-jungle — a novel (1906) by Upton Sinclair.
  • the-plague — French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
  • the-rivals — a comedy of manners (1775) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
  • theatrical — of or relating to the theater or dramatic presentations: theatrical performances.
  • thecal sac — the loose membrane covering the spinal cord and containing cerebrospinal fluid; the spinal theca.
  • themselves — reflexive
  • theodolite — Surveying. a precision instrument having a telescopic sight for establishing horizontal and sometimes vertical angles. Compare transit (def 6).
  • theologate — a seminary or school of theology
  • theologian — a person versed in theology, especially Christian theology; divine.
  • theologize — to theorize or speculate upon theological subjects.
  • theophilus — a walled plain in the 4th quadrant of the face of the moon: about 65 miles (105 km) in diameter.
  • thermalize — to undergo or cause to undergo a process in which neutrons lose energy in a moderator and become thermal neutrons
  • thermology — the study or science of heat
  • thermopile — a device consisting of a number of thermocouples joined in series, used for generating thermoelectric current or for detecting and measuring radiant energy, as from a star.
  • thessalian — a region in E Greece: a former division of ancient Greece. 5208 sq. mi. (14,490 sq. km).
  • thimbleful — the amount that a thimble will hold.
  • thimblerig — 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.
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