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16-letter words containing the

  • 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 four hundred — the most exclusive or affluent social clique in a particular place
  • the gang of four — a radical faction within the Chinese Communist Party that emerged as a political force in the spring of 1976 and was suppressed later that year. Its members, Zhang Chunqiao, Wang Hongwen, Yao Wenyuan, and Jiang Qing, were tried and imprisoned (1981)
  • the gentle craft — fishing
  • the gospel truth — the unquestionable truth
  • the great escape — a film (1963) directed by John Sturges, written by James Clavell and W.R. Burnett, based on a book by Paul Brickhill, and starring Steve McQueen. It follows an attempt made by Allied prisoners of war to escape a German prisoner of war camp during World War II
  • the great gatsby — a novel (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
  • the great karroo — karroo in S South Africa: c. 350 mi (563 km) long & 2,000 to 3,000 ft (610 to 914 m) high
  • the great powers — the states or nations of the world with the most economic, political and military strength
  • the green berets — a force of the US army also known as the United States Army Special Forces. Their missions included counter-terrorism and internal defense, and the troops are trained for guerrilla warfare
  • the heavens open — If the heavens open, it suddenly starts raining very heavily.
  • the here and now — the present time
  • 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 home nations — the countries that make up the United Kingdom: England, N. Ireland, Scotland & Wales
  • the honor system — a reliance on people to behave properly without supervision
  • the human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
  • 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 leonine city — a district of Rome on the right bank of the Tiber fortified by Pope Leo IV
  • the lion's share — the largest portion
  • the little karoo — a high arid plateau in South Africa
  • the little woman — one's wife
  • the long paddock — a stockroute or roadside area offering feed to sheep and cattle in dry times
  • 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 mekong delta — the area where the Mekong River empties into the sea through distributaries
  • the mendip hills — a range of limestone hills in SW England, in N Somerset: includes the Cheddar Gorge and numerous caves. Highest point: 325 m (1068 ft)
  • the missing link — a hypothetical extinct animal or animal group, formerly thought to be intermediate between the anthropoid apes and man
  • 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 next but one — the one after the next
  • the nitty-gritty — the basic facts of a matter, situation, etc; the core
  • the noes have it — there is a majority of votes in the negative
  • the oil industry — the industry that produces and delivers petroleum and petroleum products
  • the old dominion — a nickname for the US state of Virginia
  • the one and only — incomparable and unique
  • the open college — (in Britain) a college of art founded in 1987 for mature students studying foundation courses in arts and crafts by television programmes, written materials, and tutorials
  • the opposite sex — women in relation to men or men in relation to women
  • the orange order — a society founded in Ireland (1795) to uphold the Protestant religion, the Protestant dynasty, and the Protestant constitution
  • 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 renosterveld — an area of high altitude in SW South Africa, having fertile ground
  • the resurrection — the rising of Jesus from the dead after his death and burial
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