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15-letter words starting with th

  • the upper rhine — the section of the Rhine between Basel, Switzerland and Bingen, Germany
  • the war-wounded — those people who have been injured or wounded by war
  • the way forward — how to progress, what to do next
  • the wherewithal — necessary funds, resources, or equipment (for something or to do something)
  • the whole shoot — everything
  • the working man — working class people collectively
  • the wrong track — the incorrect line of investigation, inquiry, etc
  • the-ambassadors — a novel (1903) by Henry James.
  • the-arbitration — a comedy (c300 b.c.) by Menander, extant only as a fragment.
  • the-city-of-god — Latin De Civitate Dei. a work in 22 books (a.d. 413–26) by St. Augustine of Hippo, expounding an early Christian view of society and history.
  • the-night-watch — a painting (1642) by Rembrandt.
  • the-sketch-book — a collection of essays and stories (1819–20) by Washington Irving.
  • theatre company — an organization that produces theatrical performances
  • theatrical film — a film made for exhibition in theaters, as distinguished from one made for television.
  • theft insurance — insurance against loss or damage of property resulting from theft.
  • theory of games — game theory.
  • theory of types — a theory advanced by Bertrand Russell to avoid the liar paradox, Russell's paradox, etc, in which a class of expressions or of the entities they represent can all enter into the same syntactic relations
  • therapeutically — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
  • theriomorphosis — transformation into an animal form, often associated with mythological characters
  • thermal barrier — the high temperatures produced by the friction between a supersonic object and the earth's atmosphere that limit the speed of an airplane or rocket.
  • thermal blanket — a specially warm blanket
  • thermal equator — an imaginary line round the earth running through the point on each meridian with the highest average temperature. It lies mainly to the north because of the larger landmasses and therefore greater summer heating
  • thermal imaging — Thermal imaging is the use of special equipment that can detect the heat produced by people or things and use it to produce images of them.
  • thermal neutron — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
  • thermal printer — a printer that produces output by selectively heating a heat-sensitive paper (thermal paper) in patterns corresponding to the characters to be produced.
  • thermal reactor — a nuclear reactor in which most of the fission is caused by thermal neutrons
  • thermanesthesia — loss of ability to feel cold or heat; loss of the sense or feeling of temperature.
  • thermionic tube — a vacuum tube in which the cathode is heated electrically to cause the emission of electrons by thermal agitation.
  • thermobarograph — a device that simultaneously records the temperature and pressure of the atmosphere
  • thermobarometer — Also called hypsometer. an instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure, and sometimes altitude, from its effect upon the boiling point of a liquid.
  • thermochemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with the relationship between chemical action and heat.
  • thermodiffusion — thermal diffusion.
  • thermogeography — the study of the geographical variation and distribution of temperature.
  • thermoperiodism — the effect on an organism of rhythmic fluctuations in temperature.
  • thermoremanence — the state or quality of being thermoremanent
  • thermosensitive — readily affected by heat or a change in temperature.
  • thickness piece — a narrow flat or board used in scenic construction to give the illusion of depth or solidity to a door, wall, window, or the like.
  • thimble-rigging — a sleight-of-hand swindling game in which the operator palms a pellet or pea while appearing to cover it with one of three thimblelike cups, and then, moving the cups about, offers to bet that no one can tell under which cup the pellet or pea lies.
  • thing-in-itself — reality as it is apart from experience; what remains to be postulated after space, time, and all the categories of the understanding are assigned to consciousness. Compare noumenon (def 3).
  • think better of — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
  • think little of — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
  • think you're it — If you say that someone thinks they're it, you mean that they think they are better or more important than they really are.
  • thioacetic acid — a yellow, fuming, pungent liquid, C 2 H 4 SO, used as a reagent and tear gas.
  • thioallyl ether — allyl sulfide.
  • thiobarbiturate — a barbiturate in which a sulphur atom has replaced one oxygen atom
  • thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
  • thiocyanic acid — an unstable acid, HSCN, known chiefly in the form of its salts.
  • third amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing that the forced quartering of soldiers in private homes would be prohibited in peacetime and allowed only by prescribed law during wartime.
  • third dimension — the additional dimension by which a solid object is distinguished from a planar projection of itself or from any planar object.
  • third ventricle — one of the four cavities of the brain, lying on the midline between the cerebral hemispheres
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