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14-letter words starting with th

  • 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
  • the upper hand — If you have the upper hand in a situation, you have more power than the other people involved and can make decisions about what happens.
  • the vernacular — the commonly spoken language or dialect of a particular people or place
  • the very devil — something very difficult or awkward
  • the very idea! — that is preposterous, unreasonable, etc
  • the visitation — the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth: Luke 1:39-56
  • the waste land — a poem (1922) by T. S. Eliot.
  • the whim-whams — an uneasy, nervous feeling; the jitters
  • the wild geese — the Irish expatriates who served as professional soldiers with the Catholic powers of Europe, esp France, from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries
  • the wilderness — the barren regions to the south and east of Palestine, esp those in which the Israelites wandered before entering the Promised Land and in which Christ fasted for 40 days and nights
  • the windy city — Chicago, Illinois
  • the wool trade — the business of buying and selling wool, formerly very important in Britain, Australia etc
  • the world over — If you say that something happens or exists the world over, you mean that it happens or exists in every part of the world.
  • the worm turns — If you say that the worm turns, you mean that someone who usually obeys another person or accepts their bad behaviour unexpectedly starts resisting that person or expresses their anger.
  • the-bostonians — a novel (1886) by Henry James.
  • the-federalist — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
  • the-mabinogion — a collection of medieval Welsh romances that were translated (1838–49) by Lady Charlotte Guest.
  • the-pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
  • the-peacemaker — (Albert Edward"the Peacemaker") 1841–1910, king of Great Britain and Ireland 1901–10 (son of Queen Victoria).
  • the-suppliants — a tragedy (c463 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • theater of war — the entire area in which ground, sea, and air forces may become directly employed in war operations, including the theater of operations and the zone of interior.
  • theatre of war — the area of air, sea and land that is directly involved in war
  • then and there — at that time: Prices were lower then.
  • thenard's blue — cobalt blue.
  • theocentricity — having God as the focal point of thoughts, interests, and feelings: theocentric philosophy.
  • theodore bilbo — Theodore Gilmore [gil-mawr,, -mohr] /ˈgɪl mɔr,, -moʊr/ (Show IPA), 1877–1947, U.S. Southern populist politician: senator 1935–47.
  • theologoumenon — a theological assertion or statement not derived from divine revelation
  • theory of mind — Psychology, Philosophy. the ability to interpret one’s own and other people’s mental and emotional states, understanding that each person has unique motives, perspectives, etc.: People with autism seem to lack theory of mind. Abbreviation: ToM, TOM.
  • theotocopoulos — Domenikos [th aw-men-ee-kaws] /ðɔˈmɛn i kɔs/ (Show IPA), El Greco.
  • there and then — If something happens there and then or then and there, it happens immediately.
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