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15-letter words containing t, h, i, n, a

  • starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
  • stephen hawking — Stephen William, born 1942, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.
  • stop at nothing — to be prepared to do anything; be unscrupulous or ruthless
  • straight-acting — (of a gay person) having the mannerisms of a heterosexual person: used esp by gay people of other gay people
  • stretch a point — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
  • 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.
  • swing both ways — to enjoy sexual partners of both sexes
  • sycophantically — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
  • t'ai chi ch'uan — a Chinese martial art and form of stylized, meditative exercise, characterized by methodically slow circular and stretching movements and positions of bodily balance.
  • take a shine to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
  • talking machine — Older Use. a phonograph.
  • teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
  • tear one's hair — the act of tearing.
  • technologically — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • tectibranchiate — denoting or relating to the suborder of molluscs Tectibranchia
  • 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.
  • teng hsiao-ping — Deng Xiaoping.
  • 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.
  • thanatognomonic — signalling the nearness of death
  • thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
  • thankworthiness — the state or quality of being thankworthy or deserving thanks
  • the anglo-irish — the inhabitants of Ireland of English birth or descent
  • the colophonian — a native of Colophon.
  • the daily round — the usual activities of one's day
  • the everlasting — God
  • the first-named — something that is specified or named first
  • 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 job in hand — The job or problem in hand is the job or problem that you are dealing with at the moment.
  • the living dead — dead people that have been brought back to life by a supernatural force
  • the main chance — the opportunity for personal gain (esp in the phrase an eye to the main chance)
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • the phanerozoic — the Phanerozoic era
  • the precambrian — the Precambrian era
  • the reformation — the 16th-cent. religious movement that aimed at reforming the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in establishing the Protestant churches
  • 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
  • the restoration — the reestablishment of the monarchy in England in 1660 under Charles II
  • the saint leger — an annual horse race run at Doncaster since 1776: one of the classics of the flat-racing season
  • the santa maria — the flagship of Columbus on his first voyage to America (1492)
  • the ultimate in — The ultimate in something is the best or most advanced example of it.
  • the working man — working class people collectively
  • the-arbitration — a comedy (c300 b.c.) by Menander, extant only as a fragment.
  • the-night-watch — a painting (1642) by Rembrandt.
  • theft insurance — insurance against loss or damage of property resulting from theft.
  • 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.
  • thermanesthesia — loss of ability to feel cold or heat; loss of the sense or feeling of temperature.
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