14-letter words containing the
- the maple leaf — the national flag of Canada, consisting of a representation of a maple leaf in red on a white central panel with a vertical red bar on either side
- the mesolithic — the Mesolithic period; Middle Stone Age
- the milk train — a very early morning train, that traditionally transported milk, on which passengers also travelled
- the millennium — the period of a thousand years of Christ's awaited reign upon earth
- the mujaheddin — (in Afghanistan and Iran) fundamentalist Muslim guerrillas; in Afghanistan in 1992 the mujaheddin overthrew the government but were unable to agree on a constitution due to factional conflict and in 1996 Taliban forces seized power
- the omnipotent — an epithet for God
- the omniscient — God
- the open group — (body) (Formerly "X/Open") A vendor- and technology-neutral consortium of buyers and suppliers of information systems that aims to ease integration by testing and certifying products against open standards.
- the opposition — a political party or group opposed to the ruling party or government
- the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
- the oslo fjord — a bay in the southeast of Norway (an inlet of the Skagerrak)
- the palaeocene — the Palaeocene epoch or rock series
- the palaeogene — the Palaeogene period or system
- the palaeozoic — the Palaeozoic era
- the palatinate — either of two territories in SW Germany, once ruled by the counts palatine. Upper Palatinate is now in Bavaria; Lower or Rhine Palatinate is now in Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, and Hesse
- the paranormal — paranormal happenings generally
- the phoney war — a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
- the platteland — (in South Africa) the country districts or rural areas
- the pole vault — a field event in which competitors attempt to clear a high bar with the aid of an extremely flexible long pole
- the prize ring — the sport of prizefighting
- the public eye — If someone is in the public eye, many people know who they are, because they are famous or because they are often mentioned on television or in the newspapers.
- the quaternary — the Quaternary period or rock system, divided into Pleistocene and Holocene (Recent) epochs or series
- the real mccoy — the genuine thing or person as promised, stated, or implied (usually preceded by the or the real): Those other paintings are copies, but this one is the McCoy.
- the real thing — If you say that a thing or event is the real thing, you mean that it is the thing or event itself, rather than an imitation or copy.
- the real world — if you talk about the real world, you are referring to the world and life in general, in contrast to a particular person's own life, experience, and ideas, which may seem untypical and unrealistic
- the red guards — a radical political movement of civilian youths in China, who were mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the Cultural Revolution
- the resistance — an illegal organization fighting for national liberty in a country under enemy occupation, esp in France during World War II
- the reverse of — emphatically not; not at all
- the rheumatics — rheumatic pains
- the roman rite — the liturgical rite used in the Diocese of Rome
- the royal mail — the national postal service of the United Kingdom
- the salicaceae — a chiefly N temperate family of trees and shrubs having catkins: includes the willows and poplars
- the samaritans — a voluntary organization which offers counselling to people in despair, esp by telephone
- the silk route — an ancient trade route that linked Asia and the countries of the Mediterranean and was followed by Marco Polo when he travelled to Cathay
- the slush pile — the unsolicited manuscripts sent by hopeful authors to a publisher, considered as a whole
- the snow queen — a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, published in 1845; a young boy, Kay, falls under a troll's spell and his heart is turned to ice. He is carried off by the Snow Queen, who holds him captive until he is rescued by his devoted friend, Gerda
- the soo canals — the two ship canals linking Lakes Superior and Huron. There is a canal on the Canadian and on the US side of the rapids of the St Mary's River
- the space race — competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to be the superior power in outer space, in terms of exploration, manned space flights, and lunar landings; it is generally considered as beginning in 1957 and ending in the mid-1970s
- the stannaries — a tin-mining district of Devon and Cornwall, formerly under the jurisdiction of special courts
- the status quo — the existing state of affairs
- the story goes — it is commonly said or believed
- the surinamese — the people of Surinam collectively
- the three magi — the wise men from the East who came to do homage to the infant Jesus (Matthew 2:1–12) and traditionally called Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar
- the top thirty — the thirty best-selling pop music recordings at any particular time
- the top twenty — the twenty best-selling pop music recordings at any particular time
- the true cross — the cross on which Christ was crucified, supposed relics of which were venerated by Christians in the middle ages
- the unemployed — people who are out of work
- the unknowable — the ultimate reality that underlies all phenomena but cannot be known
- the upper back — the part of the back between the shoulders
- the upper body — the part of the body above the waist