12-letter words containing a, h, u, t
- squat thrust — an exercise in which the hands are kept on the floor with the arms held straight while the legs are straightened out behind and quickly drawn in towards the body again
- st.-eustache — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- stag hunting — the act of hunting or chasing and killing stags
- starch syrup — glucose (def 2).
- starch-syrup — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- state church — established church.
- stealthfully — secret, clandestine, or surreptitious procedure.
- stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
- stepdaughter — a daughter of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.
- stomach pump — a suction pump for removing the contents of the stomach, used especially in cases of poisoning.
- stouthearted — brave and resolute; dauntless.
- straight out — thoroughgoing: a straight-out Democrat.
- straight-out — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- strophanthus — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Strophanthus, of the dogbane family, chiefly of tropical Africa.
- subhastation — a public auction or sale
- sudden death — an overtime period in which a tied contest is won and play is stopped immediately after one of the contestants scores, as in football, or goes ahead, as in golf.
- sulphonation — the action or process of converting or being converted into a sulphonate
- sulphur bath — a curative bath in which the water used has sulphates dissolved in it, especially one in which the water comes from a natural hot spring
- superathlete — a highly accomplished athlete, an exceptional athlete
- superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
- synantherous — with united anthers
- take up with — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- talk through — guide through: a procedure, etc.
- talmud torah — (in Europe) a community-supported Jewish elementary school for teaching children Hebrew, Bible, and the fundamentals of Judaism.
- te rauparaha — ?1768–1849, Māori warrior chief, head of the Ngāti Toa tribe and signatory to the Treaty of Waitangi; noted for his cunning and his prowess in battle, he is also credited with composing "Ka Mate", the All Blacks' usual pre-match haka
- team up with — join forces with
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- telautograph — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting, drawings, etc, the movements of an electromagnetically controlled pen at one end being transmitted along a line to a similar pen at the receiving end
- telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
- thankfulness — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
- thaumatogeny — the belief that the origin of life was the result of a miracle
- thaumatology — the study or description of miracles.
- thaumaturgic — pertaining to a thaumaturge or to thaumaturgy.
- the absolute — ultimate reality regarded as uncaused, unmodified, unified and complete, timeless, etc.
- the creature — whiskey or other intoxicating liquor
- the dustheap — obscurity or oblivion
- the faithful — the believers in and loyal adherents of a religious faith, esp Christianity
- the jurassic — the Jurassic period or rock system
- the mountain — an extremist faction during the French Revolution led by Danton and Robespierre
- the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
- the silurian — the Silurian period or rock system
- the-sea-gull — a play (1896) by Anton Chekhov.
- theophrastus — 372?–287 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- therapeutics — a therapeutic substance.
- therapeutist — a person trained in the use of physical methods, as exercises, heat treatments, etc., in treating or rehabilitating the sick or wounded or helping patients overcome physical defects.
- thermal unit — a unit of heat energy or of the equivalent of heat energy in work.
- thiobacillus — any of several rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Thiobacillus, inhabiting soil, sewage, etc., that derive energy from oxidation of sulfur or sulfur compounds.
- thiosulphate — any salt of thiosulphuric acid
- thoroughfare — a road, street, or the like, that leads at each end into another street.
- thought-read — to read someone's mind or psychically know what someone's thoughts are