18-letter words containing t, h, e

fifth monarchy men — (during the Commonwealth in the 17th century) a militant sect of Puritans who identified the fifth monarchy with the millennial reign of Christ and who believed they should help to inaugurate that reign by force.
fight to the death — If you say that you will fight to the death for something, you are emphasizing that you will do anything to achieve or protect it, even if you suffer as a consequence.
fishing expedition — a legal proceeding mainly for the purpose of interrogating an adversary, or of examining his or her property and documents, in order to gain useful information.
flame-of-the-woods — an Indian evergreen shrub, Ixora coccinea, of the madder family, having red, tubular flowers in dense clusters.
flash butt welding — a method of welding metal edge-to-edge with a powerful electric flash followed by the application of pressure.
fly in the face of — to move through the air using wings.
fly off the handle — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
for the hell of it — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
for the life of me — If you say that you cannot for the life of you understand or remember something, you are emphasizing that you cannot understand or remember it, even if you try hard.
for the rest of us — (abuse) (From the Macintosh slogan "The computer for the rest of us") 1. Used to describe a spiffy product whose affordability shames other comparable products, or (more often) used sarcastically to describe spiffy but very overpriced products. 2. Describes a program with a limited interface, deliberately limited capabilities, non-orthogonality, inability to compose primitives, or any other limitation designed to not "confuse" a naïve user. This places an upper bound on how far that user can go before the program begins to get in the way of the task instead of helping accomplish it. Used in reference to Macintosh software which doesn't provide obvious capabilities because it is thought that the poor luser might not be able to handle them. Becomes "the rest of *them*" when used in third-party reference; thus, "Yes, it is an attractive program, but it's designed for The Rest Of Them" means a program that superficially looks neat but has no depth beyond the surface flash. See also point-and-drool interface, user-friendly.
for the time being — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
forensic chemistry — the application of facts concerning chemistry to questions of civil and criminal law.
forethoughtfulness — The condition of being forethoughtful.
fourth commandment — “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy”: fourth of the Ten Commandments.
fracture toughness — The fracture toughness of a material is how likely it is to resist fracture.
french west africa — a former French federation in W Africa, including Dahomey (now Benin), French Guinea, French Sudan (now Mali), Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, and Upper Volta (now Burkina Fasso).
french west indies — islands in the West Indies that belong to France, including two overseas departments (Martinique & Guadeloupe) & several former dependencies of Guadeloupe
from the ground up — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
from the housetops — publicly and widely
front of the house — façade of residential building, house front
fu manchu mustache — a mustache whose ends droop to the chin.
gas-discharge tube — any tube in which an electric discharge takes place through a gas
general anesthesia — induced unconsciousness
genetic algorithms — genetic algorithm
gestalt psychology — (sometimes lowercase) the theory or doctrine that physiological or psychological phenomena do not occur through the summation of individual elements, as reflexes or sensations, but through gestalts functioning separately or interrelatedly.
get it in the neck — the part of the body of an animal or human being that connects the head and the trunk.
get off the ground — project: start well
get one's irish up — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ireland, its inhabitants, or their language.
get out of the way — move aside
get the upper hand — gain advantage
giant peacock moth — the largest European moth, an emperor, Saturnia pyri, reaching 15 cm (6 in.) in wingspan. It is mottled brown with a prominent ocellus on each wing and being night-flying can be mistaken for a bat
give sb the creeps — If someone or something gives you the creeps, they make you feel very nervous or frightened.
give sb their head — If you give someone their head, you allow them to do what they want to do, without trying to advise or stop them.
give the game away — to reveal one's intentions or a secret
gladden sb's heart — If you say that something gladdens someone's heart, you mean that it makes them feel pleased and hopeful.
glomerulonephritis — a kidney disease affecting the capillaries of the glomeruli, characterized by albuminuria, edema, and hypertension.
go back to the mat — to abandon urban civilization
go for the jugular — Anatomy. of or relating to the throat or neck. noting or pertaining to any of certain large veins of the neck, especially one (external jugular vein) collecting blood from the superficial parts of the head or one (internal jugular vein) collecting blood from within the skull.
go to the bathroom — use the toilet
go with the stream — to conform to the accepted standards
gone with the wind — a novel (1936) by Margaret Mitchell.
goods and chattels — personal property
gopher object type — A character specifying how to display a Gopher document. Current types are: 0 document 1 menu 2 CSO phone book entity 3 error 4 binhex binary 5 DOS binary (deprecated) 6 UU binary (deprecated) 7 index search 8 telnet connection 9 binary + duplicate server for previous object I image M MIME document T tn3270 based telnet connection c cal g GIF image h HTML s binary u {Usenet} newsgroup (1999-10-14)
government housing — housing owned and managed by the federal or state government, which is rented out to tenants, esp as a form of affordable housing
grandfather clause — U.S. History. a clause in the constitutions of some Southern states after 1890 intended to permit whites to vote while disfranchising blacks: it exempted from new literacy and property qualifications for voting those men entitled to vote before 1867 and their lineal descendants.
grease the palm of — to influence by giving money to; bribe
great white father — the president of the U.S.
greater manchester — a metropolitan county in central England, with the city of Manchester as its center. 498 sq. mi. (1290 sq. km).
greater pichiciego — an armadillo, Burmeisteria retusa, similar to, but larger than, a pichiciego
greater shearwater — a sooty-brown and white shearwater, Puffinus gravis, of eastern coasts of the Western Hemisphere.

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