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15-letter words containing t, h, i, r

  • the riot police — the section of the police force that is trained to deal with people who cause trouble in public places
  • 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 square mile — the area in central London in which the United Kingdom's major financial business is transacted
  • the undersigned — the person or persons who have signed at the foot of a document, statement, etc
  • the upper rhine — the section of the Rhine between Basel, Switzerland and Bingen, Germany
  • the wherewithal — necessary funds, resources, or equipment (for something or to do something)
  • the working man — working class people collectively
  • the-arbitration — a comedy (c300 b.c.) by Menander, extant only as a fragment.
  • theatrical film — a film made for exhibition in theaters, as distinguished from one made for television.
  • theft insurance — insurance against loss or damage of property resulting from theft.
  • therapeutically — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
  • theriomorphosis — transformation into an animal form, often associated with mythological characters
  • thermal barrier — the high temperatures produced by the friction between a supersonic object and the earth's atmosphere that limit the speed of an airplane or rocket.
  • 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.
  • thermionic tube — a vacuum tube in which the cathode is heated electrically to cause the emission of electrons by thermal agitation.
  • thermochemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with the relationship between chemical action and heat.
  • thermodiffusion — thermal diffusion.
  • thermoperiodism — the effect on an organism of rhythmic fluctuations in temperature.
  • thermosensitive — readily affected by heat or a change in temperature.
  • thimble-rigging — a sleight-of-hand swindling game in which the operator palms a pellet or pea while appearing to cover it with one of three thimblelike cups, and then, moving the cups about, offers to bet that no one can tell under which cup the pellet or pea lies.
  • think better of — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
  • think you're it — If you say that someone thinks they're it, you mean that they think they are better or more important than they really are.
  • thioallyl ether — allyl sulfide.
  • thiobarbiturate — a barbiturate in which a sulphur atom has replaced one oxygen atom
  • thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
  • third amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing that the forced quartering of soldiers in private homes would be prohibited in peacetime and allowed only by prescribed law during wartime.
  • third dimension — the additional dimension by which a solid object is distinguished from a planar projection of itself or from any planar object.
  • third ventricle — one of the four cavities of the brain, lying on the midline between the cerebral hemispheres
  • thirtysomething — a person in her or his thirties
  • thorium dioxide — a white, heavy, water-insoluble powder, ThO 2 , used chiefly in incandescent mantles, as the Welsbach gas mantle.
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • thought reading — mind reading.
  • thraco-phrygian — a hypothetical branch of Indo-European implying a special genetic affinity between the meagerly attested Thracian and Phrygian languages.
  • three of a kind — a set of three cards of the same denomination.
  • three-four time — music: 3/4 time signature
  • three-line whip — A three-line whip is a situation where the MPs in a political party are ordered to attend parliament and vote in a particular way on a particular issue.
  • threshold price — the highest price a retailer is allowed to sell a particular good at
  • thromboembolism — the blockage of a blood vessel by a thrombus carried through the bloodstream from its site of formation.
  • through traffic — traffic which continues on a road or highway rather than crossing onto a different road
  • thunderstricken — Archaic. to strike with a thunderbolt.
  • thursday island — an island in Torres Strait between NE Australia and New Guinea; part of Queensland: pearl fishing. 1½ sq. mi. (4 sq. km).
  • thyrocalcitonin — calcitonin
  • thyroid extract — the powdered preparation made from the thyroid gland of certain animals, used to treat hypothyroidism
  • thyroid hormone — A thyroid hormone is a hormone, especially thyroxine or triiodothyronine, produced by the thyroid gland.
  • tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
  • tiglath-pileser — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
  • timber merchant — a merchant that deals in wood for use as a building material
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