16-letter words containing t, i, e, h, k
- ranikhet disease — Newcastle disease.
- redbank whiteoak — a city in S Tennessee.
- round the wrekin — the long way round
- sheepskin jacket — a short jacket made of the skin of a sheep with the wool still attached to it
- short ski method — a way of learning to ski, using short skis
- shot in the dark — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- shrinking violet — a shy, modest, or self-effacing person.
- silky flycatcher — any of several passerine birds of the family Ptilogonatidae, of the southwestern U.S. to Panama, related to the waxwings.
- smack in the eye — a snub or setback
- smoke inhalation — poisoning of the lungs caused by inhaling large quantities of toxic fumes from a fire
- stab in the back — to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon: She stabbed a piece of chicken with her fork.
- stick in the mud — someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.
- stick-in-the-mud — someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.
- stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
- straight whiskey — pure, unblended whiskey of 80 to 110 proof.
- streak lightning — lightning in which there is a sudden flash from what appears to be a single main line
- take (to) flight — to run away; flee
- take a raincheck — to accept the postponement of an offer
- take the biscuit — Take the biscuit means the same as take the cake.
- take the liberty — do sth without permission
- take the lid off — to make startling or spectacular revelations about
- the dojo toolkit — (library, programming) A modular, open source JavaScript library. Dojo is designed for easy development of JavaScript- or AJAX based applications and websites. It is supported by the Dojo Foundation, which is sponsored by IBM, AOL, Sun and others. The name is from the Japanese term meaning "place of the way", used for a formal place of training.
- 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 little karoo — a high arid plateau in South Africa
- the missing link — a hypothetical extinct animal or animal group, formerly thought to be intermediate between the anthropoid apes and man
- the weakest link — the person who is making the least contribution to the collective achievement of a group
- 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.
- thick as thieves — very close friends
- thick-tailed ray — Ichthyology. any ray of the order Rajiformes, having a relatively thick, fleshy tail, including the guitarfishes and the skates.
- thieves' kitchen — a thieves' hideout
- thinking pattern — manner of thinking
- three-card trick — a game in which players bet on which of three inverted playing cards is the queen
- thumbnail sketch — small preliminary drawing
- tightrope walker — performer who walks on high wire
- to break the ice — If you break the ice at a party or meeting, or in a new situation, you say or do something to make people feel relaxed and comfortable.
- tollhouse cookie — a crisp cookie containing bits of chocolate and sometimes chopped nuts.
- turkish crescent — crescent (def 6).
- up with the lark — up early in the morning
- walk a tightrope — be in a precarious position
- wide of the mark — If something such as a claim or estimate is wide of the mark, it is incorrect or inaccurate.