18-letter words containing t, e, l, u, o, s
- the hotel industry — the branch of the services industry which provides hotels
- 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.
- thermoluminescence — phosphorescence produced by the heating of a substance.
- to bare one's soul — If you bare your soul, you tell someone your most secret thoughts and feelings.
- to close your mind — If you close your mind to something, you deliberately do not think about it or pay attention to it.
- to cool your heels — If you are cooling your heels, someone is deliberately keeping you waiting, so that you get bored or impatient.
- to lose your nerve — If you lose your nerve, you suddenly panic and become too afraid to do something that you were about to do.
- to play favourites — to display favouritism
- to pull a fast one — If you say that someone has pulled a fast one on you, you mean that they have cheated or tricked you.
- tristan und isolde — a music drama (composed, 1857–59; première, 1865) by Richard Wagner.
- tufted loosestrife — a primulaceous plant Naumburgia thyrsiflora
- turn in on oneself — to withdraw or cause to withdraw from contact with others and become preoccupied with one's own problems
- turn on one's heel — to turn around abruptly
- two-colour process — (in early colour photography) a method of printing which uses superimposed red and green images
- ulcerative colitis — chronic ulceration in the large intestine, characterized by painful abdominal cramps and profuse diarrhea containing pus, blood, and mucus.
- ultrasonic testing — the scanning of material with an ultrasonic beam, during which reflections from faults in the material can be detected: a powerful nondestructive test method
- ultrasonic welding — the use of high-energy vibration of ultrasonic frequency to produce a weld between two components which are held in close contact
- ultrasound scanner — a device used to examine an internal bodily structure by the use of ultrasonic waves, esp for the diagnosis of abnormality in a fetus
- up to one's elbows — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
- up to the eyeballs — You use up to the eyeballs to emphasize that someone is in an undesirable state to a very great degree.
- ur of the chaldees — the city where Abraham was born, sometimes identified with the Sumerian city of Ur. Gen. 11:28, 31; 15:7; Neh. 9:7.
- uriniferous tubule — a urine-bearing tubule in a nephron of a kidney.
- wrangell mountains — a mountain range in SE Alaska, extending into the Yukon, Canada. Highest peak: Mount Blackburn, 5037 m (16 523 ft)