16-letter words starting with th
- 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
- the retired list — officers who have retired and are on a pension
- the roaring days — the period of the Australian goldrushes
- the scotch-irish — people of Scotch-Irish descent
- the scots guards — a regiment of Guards Division of the British Army which dates back to 1642
- the second house — the second daily performance of a play or show
- the sex industry — a commercial sector that employs sex workers in prostitution, pornography, etc.
- the silver ferns — the women's international netball team of New Zealand
- the silver state — the nickname of the US state of Nevada, which comes from the large amount of silver discovered and mined there
- the sooner state — the nickname of the US state of Oklahoma, which comes from the name of its early settlers
- the south island — the largest island of New Zealand, separated from the North Island by the Cook Strait. Pop: 1 048 200 (2013 est). Area: 153 947 sq km (59 439 sq miles)
- the state sector — the part of the economy that is controlled by the state
- the story of mel — The story of Mel, a Real Programmer
- the subconscious — subconscious mental activity
- the subsidiariat — a collective term for the news sources that would not survive without being subsidized directly (by a government, etc), or indirectly (through sharing a parent company with another more profitable revenue source)