9-letter words containing the
- the cloth — the clothes worn by a clergyman
- the coast — in the U.S., the Pacific coast
- the creed — the Apostles' Creed
- the cross — the cross on which Jesus was put to death
- the crowd — the common people; the masses
- the curse — menstruation or a menstrual period
- the cutes — cute mannerisms, ploys, devices, etc. designed to charm or attract others
- the daddy — the supreme or finest example
- the deity — the Supreme Being; God
- the delta — low-lying region in NW Miss., extending eastward from the Mississippi River
- the derby — an annual horse race run at Epsom Downs, Surrey, since 1780: one of the English flat-racing classics
- the deuce — used in such phrases as what the deuce, where the deuce, etc
- the ditch — an informal name for the Tasman Sea
- the docks — the area around a wharf or pier, used for the mooring, loading, unloading, and repair of ships
- the drink — the sea
- the dutch — the natives, citizens, or inhabitants of the Netherlands
- the elect — persons belonging to a specially privileged group
- the ether — the hypothetical medium formerly believed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves
- the exile — the period in the 6th cent. b.c. during which the Jews were held captive in Babylonia
- the fancy — those who follow a particular sport, esp prize fighting
- the fiend — the devil; Satan
- the filth — the police
- the fleet — a former small creek in London, now a covered sewer
- the flood — the flood extending over all the earth from which Noah and his family and livestock were saved in the ark. (Genesis 7–8); the Deluge
- the force — A data parallel language by Harry Jordan <[email protected]> which extends Fortran for shared memory multiprocessors. It features parallel "case" statements and critical sections.
- the forum — the main forum of ancient Rome, situated between the Capitoline and the Palatine Hills
- the gabba — the Queensland Cricket Association ground at Woolloongabba, Brisbane
- the gapes — a disease of young poultry and birds, characterized by gasping and choking and caused by gapeworms
- the gault — the Lower Cretaceous clay formation in eastern England
- the gents — men's room
- the girls — a group of women, esp acquaintances
- the globe — the world; the earth
- the glums — gloomy feelings
- the goods — sth obtained
- the gower — a peninsula in S Wales, in Swansea county on the Bristol Channel: mainly agricultural with several resorts
- the great — those who are great
- the hague — a province in the SW Netherlands. 1086 sq. mi. (2810 sq. km). Capital: The Hague.
- the hanse — a medieval league of free towns in N Germany and adjoining countries, formed to promote and protect their economic interests: the leading members were Bremen, Lübeck, and Hamburg
- the heads — people in authority
- the hills — a hilly and often remote region
- the house — House of Commons
- the irish — the natives or inhabitants of Ireland
- the jewry — (in some anti-semitic literature) the Jews conceived of as an organized force seeking world domination
- the kiwis — the men's international Rugby League football team of New Zealand
- the koine — the Ancient Greek dialect that was the lingua franca of the empire of Alexander the Great and was widely used throughout the E Mediterranean area in Roman times
- the least — (as pronoun; functioning as sing)
- the limit — the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
- the lodge — the official Canberra residence of the Australian Prime Minister
- the loose — the part of play when the forwards close round the ball in a ruck or loose scrum
- the lords — the House of Lords in the British Parliament