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12-letter words starting with the

  • the go-ahead — permission to proceed
  • the good oil — true or reliable facts, information, etc
  • the greatest — an exceptional person
  • the hebrides — a group of over 500 islands off the W coast of Scotland: separated by the North Minch, Little Minch, and the Sea of the Hebrides: the chief islands are Skye, Raasay, Rum, Eigg, Coll, Tiree, Mull, Jura, Colonsay, and Islay (Inner Hebrides), and Lewis with Harris, North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist, and Barra (Outer Hebrides)
  • the herdsman — the constellation Boötes
  • the highveld — the high-altitude grassland region of E South Africa
  • the holocene — the Holocene epoch or rock series
  • the holy one — God
  • the homeless — those typically poor or sometimes mentally ill people who are unable to maintain a place to live and therefore often may sleep in the streets, parks, etc.
  • the hoppings — an annual fair in Newcastle
  • the hot seat — If you are in the hot seat, you are responsible for making important and difficult decisions.
  • the hundreds — the numbers 100 to 109
  • the ignition — the devices used to ignite the fuel in an internal-combustion engine
  • the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
  • the interior — the domestic or internal affairs of any of certain countries
  • the internet — the single worldwide computer network that interconnects other computer networks, on which end-user services, such as World Wide Web sites or data archives, are located, enabling data and other information to be exchanged
  • the jazz age — (esp in the US) the period between the end of World War I and the beginning of the Depression during which jazz became popular
  • the jurassic — the Jurassic period or rock system
  • the kalahari — an extensive arid plateau of South Africa, Namibia, and Botswana. Area: 260 000 sq km (100 000 sq miles)
  • the kootenay — a lake in British Columbia: fed chiefly by the Kootenay; drains into the Columbia River
  • the likes of — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
  • the lothians — three historic counties of SE central Scotland (now council areas): East Lothian, West Lothian, and Midlothian (including Edinburgh)
  • the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
  • the mainland — a particular landmass as viewed from a nearby island with which it has close links, such as Great Britain as viewed from Northern Ireland or continental Australia as viewed from Tasmania
  • the mesozoic — the Mesozoic era
  • the midlands — the central counties of England, including Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, the former West Midlands metropolitan county, and Worcestershire: characterized by manufacturing industries
  • the military — the armed services (esp the army)
  • the monsoons — the monsoon rains
  • the monument — a tall columnar building designed (1671) by Sir Christopher Wren to commemorate the Fire of London (1666), which destroyed a large part of the medieval city
  • the mountain — an extremist faction during the French Revolution led by Danton and Robespierre
  • the munchies — a craving for food, esp when induced by alcohol or drugs
  • the nativity — the birth of Jesus
  • the nazarene — Jesus
  • the nearside — the side of a vehicle normally nearer the kerb (in Britain, the left side)
  • the new look — a fashion in women's clothes introduced in 1947, characterized by long full skirts
  • the new wave — a movement in the French cinema of the 1960s, led by such directors as Godard, Truffaut, and Resnais, characterized by a fluid use of the camera and an abandonment of traditional editing techniques
  • the nineties — the numbers 90–99 in a particular century, esp the 20th century
  • the occident — the Occident. the West; the countries of Europe and America. Western Hemisphere.
  • the old adam — the evil supposedly inherent in human nature
  • the old bill — policemen collectively or in general
  • the old dart — England
  • the old days — the past
  • the olympics — the Olympic Games
  • the ordnance — a department of an army or government dealing with military supplies
  • the pandects — a digest of Roman civil law in fifty books, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the 6th cent. a.d.; the Digest
  • the passions — feeling, as opposed to reason
  • the pentagon — a five-sided building in Arlington, Va., in which the main offices of the U.S. Department of Defense are located; hence, the U.S. military establishment
  • the pictures — a cinema or film show
  • the pliocene — the Pliocene epoch or rock series
  • the pointers — the two brightest stars in the Plough (Dubhe and Merak), which lie in the direction pointing towards the Pole Star and are therefore used to locate it
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