12-letter words containing a, c, h, e, d
- teacher bird — the ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus, a songbird that builds a nest shaped like a dome.
- teaching aid — material used by a teacher to supplement classroom instruction or to stimulate the interest of students.
- technobandit — a person who steals technological secrets, as from the government or a place of employment, and sells them to agents of foreign governments or to competing firms.
- tetradrachma — a silver coin of ancient Greece, equal to four drachmas.
- the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
- the deceased — the dead person or persons
- the distance — the most distant or a faraway part of the visible scene or landscape
- 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
- thread count — thread density of a woven fabric
- trade school — a high school giving instruction chiefly in the skilled trades.
- turbocharged — with additional power from turbine
- unapproached — not approached; not able to be approached or neared
- unchallenged — a euphemism for disabled (usually preceded by an adverb): physically challenged.
- unchannelled — not conveyed or routed along a channel
- unchaperoned — not chaperoned; not accompanied by a chaperone
- uncharnelled — removed from a charnel; exhumed
- underachieve — to perform, especially academically, below the potential indicated by tests of one's mental ability or aptitude.
- undischarged — gun: not let off
- undispatched — not dispatched; not delivered or sent out
- unencroached — to advance beyond proper, established, or usual limits; make gradual inroads: A dictatorship of the majority is encroaching on the rights of the individual.
- unfranchised — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- unhandcuffed — a ring-shaped metal device that can be locked around a person's wrist, usually one of a pair connected by a short chain or linked bar; shackle: The police put handcuffs on the suspect.
- unmethodical — characterized by lack of method or disorderliness
- unreproached — not reproached, criticized, or scolded
- watchstander — (US) A person who is on watch on a ship.
- wattenscheid — an industrial town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia east of Essen
- weather deck — (on a ship) the uppermost continuous deck exposed to the weather.
- well-coached — a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.
- well-matched — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- wind machine — a machine used, esp in the theatre, to produce wind or the sound of wind
- windcheaters — Plural form of windcheater.
- zantedeschia — (botany) Any of the genus Zantedeschia of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southern Africa.