15-letter words containing t, r, o, h, l, e
- the daily round — the usual activities of one's day
- the early hours — If something happens in the early hours, in the small hours, or in the wee hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.
- the lost tribes — the ten tribes deported from the N kingdom of Israel in 721 bc and believed never to have returned to Palestine
- the lower karoo — one of the two divisions of the Karoo
- the lower ranks — people who have a low rank in a military organization
- the lower rhine — the part of the Rhine River between Bonn, Germany, and the North Sea, and the area around it
- the other place — (at Oxford University) Cambridge University
- the riot police — the section of the police force that is trained to deal with people who cause trouble in public places
- the rule of law — the principle that no one is above the law and that everyone must follow the law
- the small hours — If something happens in the early hours or in the small hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.
- thermal equator — an imaginary line round the earth running through the point on each meridian with the highest average temperature. It lies mainly to the north because of the larger landmasses and therefore greater summer heating
- thermal neutron — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
- thermal reactor — a nuclear reactor in which most of the fission is caused by thermal neutrons
- thioallyl ether — allyl sulfide.
- thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
- thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
- 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.
- travel brochure — a brochure, often from a travel agency, which advertises holidays, hotels, etc
- tribromoethanol — a white, crystalline powder, C 2 H 3 Br 3 O, used as a basal anesthetic.
- trichloroacetic — as in trichloroacetic acid
- trichloroethane — a volatile nonflammable colourless liquid with low toxicity used for cleaning electrical apparatus and as a solvent; 1,2,3-trichloroethane. Formula: CH3CCl3
- trochlear nerve — either one of the fourth pair of cranial nerves, consisting of motor fibers that innervate the superior oblique muscle of the upper part of the eyeball.
- troubleshooting — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
- two-thirds rule — a former rule in the Democratic Party, effective 1832–1936, requiring a vote of at least two thirds of its national convention delegates to nominate a presidential and vice-presidential candidate.
- ultramarathoner — a person who takes part in an ultramarathon
- ultramicrofiche — ultrafiche.
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- weather balloon — sounding balloon.
- well-brought-up — If you say that someone, especially a child, is well-brought-up, you mean that they are very polite because they have been taught good manners.
- wentworth scale — a scale for specifying the sizes (diameters) of sedimentary particles, ranging from clay particles (less than 1⁄256 mm) to boulders (over 256 mm)
- west hartlepool — a former borough, now part of Hartlepool, in Cleveland County, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tees.
- western hemlock — a tall, narrow hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla, of western North America: the state tree of Washington.
- white corpuscle — white blood cell.
- winter holidays — a period of rest from work or studies taken in winter
- women's shelter — woman's refuge
- wreathed column — a column having a twisted or spiral form.