10-letter words starting with th
- the exodus — the departure of the Israelites from Egypt led by Moses
- the fishes — the constellation Pisces, the twelfth sign of the zodiac
- the flicks — the cinema
- the forces — the armed services of a nation
- the former — the first or first mentioned of two: distinguished from latter
- the french — the natives, citizens, or inhabitants of France collectively
- the galaxy — the spiral galaxy, approximately 100 000 light years in diameter, that contains the solar system about three fifths of the distance from its centre
- the grades — elementary school
- the grange — an association of farmers that strongly influenced state legislatures in the late 19th century
- the guides — an organization for girls equivalent to the Scouts
- the gutter — a poverty-stricken, degraded, or criminal environment
- the hadean — the Hadean time period
- the heaves — an attack of vomiting or retching
- the horses — gambling linked to horse racing
- the hounds — a pack of foxhounds, etc
- the latest — most recent; current: latest fashions.
- the letter — the strict legalistic or pedantic interpretation of the meaning of an agreement, document, etc; exact wording as distinct from actual intention (esp in the phrase the letter of the law)
- the levant — a former name for the area of the E Mediterranean now occupied by Lebanon, Syria, and Israel
- the litany — a form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations, each followed by an unvarying response
- the living — those that are still alive
- the lizard — a promontory in SW England, in SW Cornwall: the southernmost point in Great Britain
- the majors — the major leagues
- the market — business or trade in a commodity as specified
- the masses — a body of coherent matter, usually of indefinite shape and often of considerable size: a mass of dough.
- the master — the man of the house
- the matter — the substance or substances of which any physical object consists or is composed: the matter of which the earth is made.
- the method — a realistic style of acting in which the actor strives for close personal identification with the role being played
- the minors — the minor leagues, esp. in baseball
- the minute — If you say that something happens the minute something else happens, you are emphasizing that it happens immediately after the other thing.
- the missus — one's wife or the wife of the person addressed or referred to
- the moirai — the Greek goddesses of fate
- the moment — If you say that something happens the moment something else happens, you are emphasizing that it happens immediately after the other thing.
- the movies — the cinema
- the occult — the occult arts or studies
- the office — a hint or signal
- the ogaden — a region of SE Ethiopia, bordering on Somalia: consists of a desert plateau, inhabited by Somali nomads; a secessionist movement, supported by Somalia, has existed within the region since the early 1960s and led to bitter fighting between Ethiopia and Somalia (1977–78)
- the oneida — a North American Indian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario; one of the Iroquois peoples
- the orient — the Orient, the countries of Asia, especially East Asia. (formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- the others — the remaining ones (of a group)
- the pamirs — a mountainous area of central Asia, mainly in Tajikistan and partly in Kyrgyzstan, extending into China and Afghanistan: consists of a complex of high ranges, from which the Tian Shan projects to the north, the Kunlun and Karakoram to the east, and the Hindu Kush to the west; Ismoil Somoni (formerly Communism Peak) is situated in the Tajik Pamirs. Highest peak: Kongur Shan, 7719 m (25 326 ft)
- the pampas — vast plain of S South America, extending from the Atlantic across central Argentina to the Andes
- the papers — newspapers
- the parcae — the Roman goddesses of fate
- the people — the mass of persons without special distinction, privileges, etc
- the plough — the group of the seven brightest stars in the constellation Ursa Major
- the police — the organized civil force of a state, concerned with maintenance of law and order, the detection and prevention of crime, etc
- the prince — a treatise on statecraft (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli.
- the pulpit — the preaching of the Christian message
- the purple — high rank; nobility
- the rabbis — the early Jewish scholars whose teachings are recorded in the Talmud