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

  • the daily round — the usual activities of one's day
  • the everlasting — God
  • 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 rhine — the part of the Rhine River between Bonn, Germany, and the North Sea, and the area around it
  • the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
  • the riot police — the section of the police force that is trained to deal with people who cause trouble in public places
  • the saint leger — an annual horse race run at Doncaster since 1776: one of the classics of the flat-racing season
  • the square mile — the area in central London in which the United Kingdom's major financial business is transacted
  • the wherewithal — necessary funds, resources, or equipment (for something or to do something)
  • theatrical film — a film made for exhibition in theaters, as distinguished from one made for television.
  • therapeutically — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
  • thermal barrier — the high temperatures produced by the friction between a supersonic object and the earth's atmosphere that limit the speed of an airplane or rocket.
  • thermal imaging — Thermal imaging is the use of special equipment that can detect the heat produced by people or things and use it to produce images of them.
  • thermal printer — a printer that produces output by selectively heating a heat-sensitive paper (thermal paper) in patterns corresponding to the characters to be produced.
  • thimble-rigging — a sleight-of-hand swindling game in which the operator palms a pellet or pea while appearing to cover it with one of three thimblelike cups, and then, moving the cups about, offers to bet that no one can tell under which cup the pellet or pea lies.
  • thioallyl ether — allyl sulfide.
  • thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
  • third ventricle — one of the four cavities of the brain, lying on the midline between the cerebral hemispheres
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • three-line whip — A three-line whip is a situation where the MPs in a political party are ordered to attend parliament and vote in a particular way on a particular issue.
  • threshold price — the highest price a retailer is allowed to sell a particular good at
  • thromboembolism — the blockage of a blood vessel by a thrombus carried through the bloodstream from its site of formation.
  • tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
  • tiglath-pileser — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
  • track athletics — sporting activities, such as relay running or sprinting, which take place on a running track
  • training wheels — a pair of small wheels attached one on each side of the rear wheel of a bicycle for stability while one is learning to ride.
  • tribromoethanol — a white, crystalline powder, C 2 H 3 Br 3 O, used as a basal anesthetic.
  • trichloroacetic — as in trichloroacetic acid
  • trichloroethane — a volatile nonflammable colourless liquid with low toxicity used for cleaning electrical apparatus and as a solvent; 1,2,3-trichloroethane. Formula: CH3CCl3
  • trickle charger — a small mains-operated battery charger, esp one that delivers less than 5 amperes and is used by car owners
  • troubleshooting — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
  • turkish delight — a candy made of fruit juice and gelatin, cubed and dusted with sugar.
  • two-thirds rule — a former rule in the Democratic Party, effective 1832–1936, requiring a vote of at least two thirds of its national convention delegates to nominate a presidential and vice-presidential candidate.
  • ultramicrofiche — ultrafiche.
  • unchristianlike — not like a Christian; not in accordance with Christian teaching and values
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • unrehabilitated — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • virtual machine — Also called system virtual machine. a self-contained operating environment that behaves as if it is a separate computer, with no access to the host operating system: When an application runs in a virtual machine, there is little chance that it will damage files or applications in the host system.
  • whip-tailed ray — a whipray.
  • white bear lake — a city in E Minnesota: summer resort.
  • white corpuscle — white blood cell.
  • wilhelm meister — a novel (1795–1829) by Goethe.
  • winter holidays — a period of rest from work or studies taken in winter
  • wrestling match — sport: contention by grappling opponent
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