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

  • the jury is out — If you say that the jury is out or that the jury is still out on a particular subject, you mean that people in general have still not made a decision or formed an opinion about that subject.
  • the last supper — the supper of Jesus and His disciples on the eve of His Crucifixion. Compare Lord's Supper (def 1).
  • the lost tribes — the ten tribes deported from the N kingdom of Israel in 721 bc and believed never to have returned to Palestine
  • the lower karoo — one of the two divisions of the Karoo
  • 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 netherlands — the, (used with a singular or plural verb) a kingdom in W Europe, bordering on the North Sea, Germany, and Belgium. 13,433 sq. mi. (34,790 sq. km). Capitals: Amsterdam and The Hague.
  • 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 paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • the phanerozoic — the Phanerozoic era
  • the precambrian — the Precambrian era
  • the present day — The present day is the period of history that we are in now.
  • 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 renaissance — the period of European history marking the waning of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world: usually considered as beginning in Italy in the 14th century
  • the restoration — the reestablishment of the monarchy in England in 1660 under Charles II
  • the right track — the correct line of investigation, inquiry, etc
  • 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 saint leger — an annual horse race run at Doncaster since 1776: one of the classics of the flat-racing season
  • the santa maria — the flagship of Columbus on his first voyage to America (1492)
  • 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 square mile — the area in central London in which the United Kingdom's major financial business is transacted
  • the underground — an electric passenger railway operated in underground tunnels
  • the undersigned — the person or persons who have signed at the foot of a document, statement, etc
  • the upper karoo — one of the two divisions of the Karoo
  • the upper ranks — the higher divisions of the armed forces
  • the upper rhine — the section of the Rhine between Basel, Switzerland and Bingen, Germany
  • the war-wounded — those people who have been injured or wounded by war
  • the way forward — how to progress, what to do next
  • the wherewithal — necessary funds, resources, or equipment (for something or to do something)
  • 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
  • theatrical film — a film made for exhibition in theaters, as distinguished from one made for television.
  • theft insurance — insurance against loss or damage of property resulting from theft.
  • 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
  • therapeutically — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
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