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18-letter words containing t, e, l, i

  • territorialization — to extend by adding new territory.
  • the beautiful game — football
  • the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
  • the black mountain — a mountain range in S Wales, in E Carmarthenshire and W Powys. Highest peak: Carmarthen Van, 802 m (2632 ft)
  • the bottomless pit — the underworld; hell
  • 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 dismal science — a name for economics coined by Thomas Carlyle
  • 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 encyclopedists — the writers of the French Encyclopedia (1751-72) edited by Diderot and d'Alembert, which contained the advanced ideas of the period
  • the family compact — the ruling oligarchy in Upper Canada in the early 19th century
  • 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 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 intelligentsia — the educated or intellectual people in a society or community
  • the internationale — a revolutionary socialist hymn, first sung in 1871 in France
  • 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 north atlantic — the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean, especially the waters separating North America and Europe
  • 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-cocktail-party — a play in verse (1950) by T. S. Eliot.
  • 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'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.
  • thermoluminescence — phosphorescence produced by the heating of a substance.
  • think the world of — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
  • 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.
  • throw in the towel — an absorbent cloth or paper for wiping and drying something wet, as one for the hands, face, or body after washing or bathing.
  • throw oneself into — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
  • tick all the boxes — to satisfy all of the apparent requirements for success
  • tighten one's belt — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
  • timber rattlesnake — a rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus horridus, of the eastern U.S., usually having the body marked with dark crossbands.
  • time of one's life — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
  • to be tickled pink — If you are tickled pink, you are extremely pleased about something.
  • to bite the bullet — If someone bites the bullet, they accept that they have to do something unpleasant but necessary.
  • to close your mind — If you close your mind to something, you deliberately do not think about it or pay attention to it.
  • to fall into place — If things fall into place, events happen naturally to produce a situation you want.
  • to let it be known — If you let it be known that something is the case, or you let something be known, you make sure that people know it or can find out about it.
  • 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 play favourites — to display favouritism
  • to raise the alarm — If you raise the alarm or sound the alarm, you warn people of danger.
  • to save one's life — If you say that someone cannot do something to save their life, you are emphasizing that they do it very badly.
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