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21-letter words containing t, h, e, o

  • the birth of a nation — an American film (1915), directed by D. W. Griffith.
  • the break of day/dawn — The break of day or the break of dawn is the time when it begins to grow light after the night.
  • the built environment — the buildings and all other things constructed by human beings
  • the central provinces — the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec
  • the comrades marathon — an annual long-distance race run every year on the 16th of June from Durban to Pietermaritzburg, a distance of approximately 90 kilometres (56 miles)
  • the corncracker state — a nickname for the state of Kentucky
  • the cream of the crop — You can refer to the best people or things of a particular kind as the cream of the crop.
  • the end of one's rope — the end of one's endurance, resources, etc.
  • the executive mansion — the White House
  • the face of the earth — You can use the expression 'on the face of the earth' to mean 'in the whole world', when you are emphasizing a statement that you are making or making a very exaggerated statement.
  • the fall of the cards — the chance distribution of cards in a given deal
  • the fast track to sth — the quickest or most direct route or system
  • the household cavalry — a group of British soldiers on horseback who have the job of protecting the king or queen and their family
  • the icing on the cake — If you describe something as the icing on the cake, you mean that it makes a good thing even better, but it is not essential.
  • the joker in the pack — If you describe someone or something as the joker in the pack, you mean that they are different from the other people or things in their group, and can be unpredictable.
  • the jury is still out — it has not yet been decided or agreed on
  • the letter of the law — If you say that someone keeps to the letter of the law , you mean that they act according to what is actually written in the law, rather than according to the general principles of it, especially when you disapprove of this.
  • the lower vertebrates — relatively simple and primitive vertebrates
  • the microsoft network — (networking)   (MSN) Microsoft's ISP and online content service, launched in October 1996. Not to be confused with Microsoft Networking. MSN was originally based on custom software and protocols, however Microsoft saw the error of their ways and adopted Internet standards. MSN now provides standard WWW and email facilities, albeit with Microsoft's Internet Explorer web-browser and the Outlook Express email software. The service also provides "Community Services" including newsgroups, forums, and chat.
  • the middle of nowhere — remote place
  • the moral high ground — If you say that someone has taken the moral high ground, you mean that they consider that their policies and actions are morally superior to the policies and actions of their rivals.
  • the oldest profession — prostitution
  • the order of the bath — an order of knighthood founded by George I in 1725. It consists of the sovereign, the Great Master, and three classes of member: Knight (or Dame) Grand Cross, Knight (or Dame) Commander, and Companion
  • the origin of species — (On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life) a treatise (1859) by Charles Darwin setting forth his theory of evolution.
  • the press association — the national news agency for the United Kingdom and Ireland
  • the probation service — a criminal justice service that is mainly responsible for dealing with offenders by placing them under the supervision of a probation officer
  • the rock of gibraltar — a limestone promontory at the tip of S Spain
  • the royal scots greys — (formerly) a British cavalry regiment, the Second Dragoons
  • the scout association — a worldwide movement for boys or (in some countries) girls, founded as the Boy Scouts in England in 1908 by Lord Baden-Powell with the aim of developing character and responsibility
  • the shipping forecast — a radio broadcast made by the BBC of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the British Isles
  • the slough of despond — a state of extreme despondency, depression or degradation
  • the sooner the better — You say the sooner the better when you think something should be done as soon as possible.
  • the stationery office — (in the UK) the company that supplies the civil service with all its office supplies, machinery, printing and binding, etc
  • the student community — the body of students in further and higher education, considered as a whole
  • the throwaway society — a society full of excessive consumption and waste of food, products, etc
  • the women's land army — a unit of women recruited to do agricultural work in the United Kingdom during World War I and World War II
  • the yellow brick road — the road to success or happiness (in the film the Wizard of Oz the yellow brick road leads to Oz)
  • theater of operations — the part of the theater of war, including a combat zone and a communications zone, that is engaged in military operations and their support.
  • theater of the absurd — theater in which standard or naturalistic conventions of plot, characterization, and thematic structure are ignored or distorted in order to convey the irrational or fictive nature of reality and the essential isolation of humanity in a meaningless world.
  • theatre of the absurd — drama in which normal conventions and dramatic structure are ignored or modified in order to present life as irrational or meaningless
  • theoretical physicist — a scientist who studies theoretical physics
  • therapeutic community — a group-based form of therapy for mental disorders, sometimes residential
  • there's nothing to it — If you say 'There's nothing to it', 'There's not much to it', or 'That's all there is to it', you are emphasizing how simple you think something is.
  • thermal decomposition — Thermal decomposition is the process in which a chemical species breaks down when its temperature is increased.
  • thermal power station — a power station in which heat is converted into electricity
  • thermoelectric couple — thermocouple.
  • thermoelectric effect — the production of an electromotive force in a thermocouple.
  • thermophosphorescence — thermoluminescence.
  • thin end of the wedge — anything unimportant in itself that implies the start of something much larger
  • think outside the box — to think in a different, innovative, or original manner, esp with regard to business practices, products, systems, etc
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