13-letter words containing t, h, a, k
- the new black — If you say that a particular colour is the new black, you mean that it has become fashionable.
- the west bank — a semi-autonomous Palestinian region in the Middle East on the W bank of the River Jordan, comprising the hills of Judaea and Samaria and part of Jerusalem: formerly part of Palestine (the entity created by the League of Nations in 1922 and operating until 1948): became part of Jordan after the ceasefire of 1949: occupied by Israel since the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. In 1993 a peace treaty between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization provided for the West Bank to become a self-governing Palestinian area; a new Palestinian National Authority assumed control of parts of the territory in 1994–95, but subsequent talks broke down and Israel reoccupied much of this in 2001–02 and continues to maintain most existing Israeli settlements. Pop: 2 676 740 (2013 est). Area: 5879 sq km (2270 sq miles)
- the-swan-lake — a ballet (1876) by Tchaikovsky.
- thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
- thinkableness — the state or quality of being conceivable or thinkable
- this day week — a week (counting backward or forward) from today (or yesterday, etc.)
- thomas becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
- thomas decker — Thomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
- thomas hooker — Joseph, 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
- thousand oaks — a town in S California.
- thrombokinase — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
- throttle back — If you throttle back, or you throttle back the engine, when driving a motor vehicle or flying an aircraft, you make it go slower by reducing the quantity of fuel entering the engine.
- to play hooky — If a child plays hooky, they stay away from school without permission.
- tracking shot — dolly shot.
- trash-talking — disparaging or boastful language used especially to demoralize or intimidate opponents: trash-talking in the locker room.
- truchas peaks — group of mountains in N New Mexico, NE of Santa Fe in the S Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
- visakhapatnam — a seaport in Andhra Pradesh, in E India, on the Bay of Bengal.
- walk off with — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- walk out with — to court or be courted by
- walk the walk — do as one preaches or boasts of doing
- walk with god — to lead a godly, morally upright life
- water hemlock — any of several poisonous plants belonging to the genus Cicuta, of the parsley family, as C. virosa of Europe, and C. maculata of North America, growing in swamps and marshy places.
- weather check — if you get a weather check you find out what the weather is like
- weathercocked — Simple past tense and past participle of weathercock.
- what it takes — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
- what the heck — You say 'what the heck' to indicate that you do not care about a bad aspect of an action or situation.
- white croaker — kingfish (def 2).
- wideawake hat — fully awake; with the eyes wide open.
- with any luck — You can add with luck or with any luck to a statement to indicate that you hope that a particular thing will happen.
- yitzhak rabin — Yitzhak [yits-khahk] /yɪtsˈxɑk/ (Show IPA), 1922–95, Israeli military and political leader: prime minister 1974–77 and 1992–95: Nobel Peace Prize 1994.
- you know what — a thing or person that the speaker cannot or does not want to specify