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16-letter words containing t, h, i, r, e

  • teacher training — practical teaching course
  • tensile strength — the resistance of a material to longitudinal stress, measured by the minimum amount of longitudinal stress required to rupture the material.
  • tetrahydrozoline — a compound, C 13 H 16 N 2 , used in the treatment of nasal congestion and certain conditions of eye irritation.
  • the arabian gulf — the arm of the Arabian Sea between SW Iran and Arabia; important for the oilfields on its shores
  • the christ child — a very reverential way of referring to Jesus Christ as a child, used particularly when referring to art
  • the eternal city — Rome
  • the fact remains — You say the fact remains that something is the case when you want to emphasize that the situation must be accepted.
  • the first couple — the US president and their spouse
  • the first family — a President's family
  • the first fruits — The first fruits or the first fruit of a project or activity are its earliest results or profits.
  • the foreign-born — immigrants of a country
  • the herring-pond — the Atlantic Ocean
  • the high country — sheep pastures in the foothills of the Southern Alps, New Zealand
  • the hill of tara — the historic seat of the ancient Irish kings, in Co Meath near Dublin
  • the hitler youth — a Nazi paramilitary youth organization (1922-45)
  • the holy trinity — God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit
  • the king country — an area in the centre of North Island, New Zealand: home of the King Movement, a nineteenth-century Māori separatist movement
  • the lion's share — the largest portion
  • the little karoo — a high arid plateau in South Africa
  • the marseillaise — the French national anthem. Words and music were composed in 1792 by C. J. Rouget de Lisle as a war song for the Rhine army of revolutionary France
  • the morn's nicht — tomorrow night
  • the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
  • the nitty-gritty — the basic facts of a matter, situation, etc; the core
  • the oil industry — the industry that produces and delivers petroleum and petroleum products
  • the preconscious — preconscious mental activity
  • the public purse — money from or controlled by the government
  • the red brigades — a group of urban guerrillas, based in Italy, who kidnapped and murdered the former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro (1916–78) in 1978
  • the resurrection — the rising of Jesus from the dead after his death and burial
  • the retired list — officers who have retired and are on a pension
  • the roaring days — the period of the Australian goldrushes
  • the scotch-irish — people of Scotch-Irish descent
  • the sex industry — a commercial sector that employs sex workers in prostitution, pornography, etc.
  • the silver ferns — the women's international netball team of New Zealand
  • the silver state — the nickname of the US state of Nevada, which comes from the large amount of silver discovered and mined there
  • the subsidiariat — a collective term for the news sources that would not survive without being subsidized directly (by a government, etc), or indirectly (through sharing a parent company with another more profitable revenue source)
  • the swiss-french — people from French-speaking Switzerland
  • the tamil tigers — a Sri Lankan Tamil separatist movement founded in the early 1970s that sought to establish an independent Tamil homeland (Tamil Eelam) in northern Sri Lanka; they waged a military campaign until defeated in 2009 by the Sri Lankan army
  • the time is ripe — If you say the time is ripe, you mean that a suitable time has arrived for something to be done.
  • the virgin queen — another name for Queen Elizabeth I of England
  • the war-disabled — those people who have been disabled by war
  • the worried well — people who are healthy but are concerned about becoming ill and so take medication or see a medical practitioner when they don't need to
  • the written word — writing rather than speaking
  • theatre-francais — Comédie Française.
  • theatrical agent — an intermediary who brings together actors who are seeking work and theatre producers who are offering parts
  • thermal analysis — any analysis of materials in which properties relating to heat, such as freezing and boiling temperatures, the heat of fusion, the heat of vaporization, etc., are measured.
  • thermal cracking — Thermal cracking is an extraction process in which hydrocarbons such as crude oil are heated to a high temperature to break the molecular bonds.
  • thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
  • thermoacidophile — any organism, especially a type of archaebacterium, that thrives in strongly acidic environments at high temperatures.
  • thermoanesthesia — thermanesthesia.
  • thermoplasticity — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
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