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15-letter words containing t, h, e, c, a

  • stock character — a character in literature, theater, or film of a type quickly recognized and accepted by the reader or viewer and requiring no development by the writer.
  • straight ticket — a ballot on which all votes have been cast for candidates of the same party.
  • straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
  • stretch a point — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
  • stretcher party — a group of stretcher bearers and the stretchers they are carrying
  • student teacher — a student who is studying to be a teacher and who, as part of the training, observes classroom instruction or does closely supervised teaching in an elementary or secondary school.
  • subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
  • subtrochanteric — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
  • sweet chocolate — cocoa product with high sugar content
  • sympathetectomy — sympathectomy.
  • sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
  • sympathetically — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
  • sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
  • take the mickey — mock
  • talking machine — Older Use. a phonograph.
  • teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
  • technologically — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • tectibranchiate — denoting or relating to the suborder of molluscs Tectibranchia
  • tehuacan valley — a desert valley site in Puebla, Mexico, where aridity has preserved the vegetable remains of communities from 9000 b.c. to historic times, thus documenting the transition from hunting and gathering to the largely agricultural subsistence of the full Neolithic phase (1500–900 b.c.).
  • telegraphically — of or relating to the telegraph.
  • tenant in chief — a feudal vassal who holds land directly from the king.
  • tenant-in-chief — a feudal vassal who holds land directly from the king.
  • tetrabranchiate — belonging or pertaining to the Nautiloidea (Tetrabranchiata), a subclass or order of cephalopods with four gills, including the pearly nautilus and numerous fossil forms.
  • the amen corner — the part of a church, usually to one side of the pulpit, occupied by people who lead the responsive amens during the service
  • the black death — a form of bubonic plague pandemic in Europe and Asia during the 14th century, when it killed over 50 million people
  • the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
  • the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
  • the black watch — (formerly) the Royal Highland Regiment in the British Army; (since 2006) an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland
  • the cesarewitch — a long-distance horserace run each year in October at Newmarket racecourse
  • the classifieds — a section of classified advertising in a publication
  • the colophonian — a native of Colophon.
  • the common weal — the good of society
  • the confederacy — the league of Southern states that seceded from the U.S. in 1860 & 1861; Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex., & Va.
  • the cordilleras — the complex of mountain ranges on the W side of the Americas, extending from Alaska to Cape Horn and including the Andes and the Rocky Mountains
  • the die is cast — You can say that the die is cast to draw attention to the importance of an event or decision which is going to affect your future and which cannot be changed or avoided.
  • the handicapped — those who are physically disabled or mentally retarded
  • the incarnation — the taking on of a human body by the second person of the Trinity; the joining of the divine and the human in Jesus Christ
  • the kos channel — a strait separating Kos from SW Turkey
  • the magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
  • the main chance — the opportunity for personal gain (esp in the phrase an eye to the main chance)
  • the midas touch — ability to make money
  • the ocean state — the US state of Rhode Island
  • the other place — (at Oxford University) Cambridge University
  • the paleolithic — the Paleolithic period, subdivided into the Lower (to c. 150,000 b.c.), Middle (to c. 38,000 b.c.), and Upper stages; Old Stone Age
  • the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
  • the peach state — a nickname for Georgia, a state in southeastern United States
  • the phanerozoic — the Phanerozoic era
  • the precambrian — the Precambrian era
  • the public weal — the public good; the good of society
  • 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
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