16-letter words containing t, h, e, s, o, u
- tollhouse cookie — a crisp cookie containing bits of chocolate and sometimes chopped nuts.
- touch of the sun — slight sunstroke
- two-family house — a house designed for occupation by two families in contiguous apartments, as on separate floors.
- twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
- undernourishment — If someone is suffering from undernourishment, they have poor health because they are not eating enough food or are eating the wrong kind of food.
- up to the elbows — deeply engaged (in work, etc.)
- upper atmosphere — the portion of the atmosphere above the troposphere.
- vestibule school — a school in an industrial establishment where new employees are given specific training in the jobs they are to perform.
- walrus moustache — a long thick moustache drooping at the ends
- well-upholstered — (of a person) fat
- without question — If you do something without question, you do it without arguing or asking why it is necessary.
- without recourse — a qualified endorsement on such a negotiable instrument, by which the endorser protects himself or herself from liability to subsequent holders