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18-letter words containing t, h, i, n, g, e

  • solid-fuel heating — heating that uses solid fuel, such as coal or coke
  • something or other — sth not remembered precisely
  • something to go on — something that is adequate for the present time
  • something to spare — a surplus of something
  • spaghetti junction — an interchange, usually between motorways, in which there are a large number of underpasses and overpasses and intersecting roads used by a large volume of high-speed traffic
  • speech recognition — Computers. the computerized analysis of spoken words in order to identify the speaker, as in security systems, or to respond to voiced commands: the analysis is performed by finding patterns in the spectrum of the incoming sound and comparing them with stored patterns of elements of sound, as phones, or of complete words.
  • spherical triangle — a triangle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
  • stinking chamomile — mayweed.
  • strathclyde region — a former local government region in W Scotland: formed in 1975 from Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire, Buteshire, Dunbartonshire, and parts of Argyllshire, Ayrshire, and Stirlingshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Glasgow, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Argyll and Bute, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and East Ayrshire
  • superstring theory — any supersymmetric string theory in which each type of elementary particle is treated as a vibration of a single fundamental string (superstring) at a particular frequency.
  • swedish gymnastics — a system of passive and active exercising of muscles and joints
  • sympathetic string — a thin wire string, as in various obsolete musical instruments, designed to vibrate sympathetically with the bowed or plucked strings to reinforce the sound.
  • synthetic geometry — elementary geometry, as distinct from analytic geometry.
  • teaching assistant — a graduate student in a college or university who is the recipient of a teaching fellowship. Abbreviation: TA.
  • teaching equipment — teaching aids
  • technical sergeant — a noncommissioned officer ranking below a master sergeant and above a staff sergeant.
  • the damage is done — If you say 'the damage is done', you mean that it is too late now to prevent the harmful effects of something that has already happened.
  • the electronic age — the electronic age began when electronic equipment, including computers came into use
  • the general public — the people in a society; people in general
  • the grand national — an annual steeplechase run at Aintree, Liverpool, since 1839
  • the intelligentsia — the educated or intellectual people in a society or community
  • the magnolia state — a nickname referring to Mississippi
  • the major rogation — April 25, observed by Christians as a day of solemn supplication for the harvest and marked by processions, special prayers, and blessing of the crops
  • the nether regions — the genitals
  • there you go again — Phrases such as there you go again are used to show annoyance at someone who is repeating something that has annoyed you in the past.
  • there's no telling — You use there's no telling to introduce a statement when you want to say that it is impossible to know what will happen in a situation.
  • thin on the ground — If people or things of a particular kind are thin on the ground, there are very few of them.
  • third man argument — (in the philosophy of Aristotle) the argument against the existence of Platonic Forms that since the Form of Man is itself a perfect man, a further form (the "third" man) would be required to explain this, and so ad infinitum
  • thought experiment — Physics. a demonstration or calculation that is based on the postulates of a theory, as relativity, and that demonstrates or clarifies the consequences of the postulates.
  • three-day eventing — participation in a three day equestrian competition consisting of dressage, cross-country jumping, and stadium jumping
  • tighten one's belt — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
  • to get wind of sth — If you get wind of something, you hear about it, especially when someone else did not want you to know about it.
  • touch-in-goal line — either of the two touchlines at each end of the field between the goal line and the dead-ball line.
  • under the aegis of — guided or protected by
  • university heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
  • westinghouse brake — a railroad air brake operated by compressed air.
  • whitewater rafting — the sport of rafting down fast-flowing rivers, esp over rapids
  • working hypothesis — See under hypothesis (def 1).
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