18-letter words containing t, h, a, l, m
- the beautiful game — football
- the black mountain — a mountain range in S Wales, in E Carmarthenshire and W Powys. Highest peak: Carmarthen Van, 802 m (2632 ft)
- the dismal science — a name for economics coined by Thomas Carlyle
- the family compact — the ruling oligarchy in Upper Canada in the early 19th century
- the full treatment — If you say that someone is given the full treatment, you mean either that they are treated extremely well or that they are treated extremely severely.
- the lords temporal — (in Britain) peers other than bishops in their capacity as members of the House of Lords
- 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 palmetto state — a nickname for South Carolina
- the same old story — the familiar or regular course of events
- the welsh assembly — the elected assembly for Wales, based in Cardiff, that has certain powers devolved from the UK government
- the-master-builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- thermal efficiency — the ratio of the work output of a heat engine to the heat input expressed in the same units of energy.
- thermogalvanometer — a thermoammeter for measuring small currents, consisting of a thermocouple connected to a direct-current galvanometer.
- thermonuclear bomb — hydrogen bomb.
- thomas alva edison — Thomas Alva [al-vuh] /ˈæl və/ (Show IPA), 1847–1931, U.S. inventor, especially of electrical devices.
- to raise the alarm — If you raise the alarm or sound the alarm, you warn people of danger.
- triarylmethane dye — any of the class of dyes containing three aryl groups attached to a central carbon atom: used chiefly for dyeing cotton, wool, and silk.
- upper klamath lake — See under Klamath Lakes.
- vitamin a aldehyde — retinal2 .
- wesleyan methodist — a member of any of the churches founded on the evangelical principles of John Wesley.
- white-collar crime — any of various crimes, as embezzlement, fraud, or stealing office equipment, committed by business or professional people while working at their occupations.
- widemouth blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
- witch hazel family — the plant family Hamamelidaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having alternate, simple leaves, flowers in clusters or heads, and fruit in the form of a double-beaked woody capsule, and including the sweet gum, witch alder, and witch hazel.
- withdrawal symptom — effects of stopping a drug
- woman of the world — a woman experienced and sophisticated in the ways and manners of the world, especially the world of society.