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12-letter words containing a, t, h, e, m

  • star chamber — a former court of inquisitorial and criminal jurisdiction in England that sat without a jury and that became noted for its arbitrary methods and severe punishments, abolished 1641.
  • starter home — A starter home is a small, new house or flat which is cheap enough for people who are buying their first home to afford.
  • stately home — a country mansion, usually of architectural interest and often open to the public.
  • stay-at-home — not inclined to travel or seek diversions or pastimes outside one's residence, area, or country.
  • steam hammer — a hammer for forging, operated by steam.
  • steam shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
  • steam-heated — heated by steam.
  • steam-shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
  • stenothermal — (of animals or plants) able to exist only within a narrow range of temperature
  • stomach ache — pain in gut
  • storm-lashed — badly affected by storms
  • stretch mark — a silvery streak occurring typically on the abdomen or thighs and caused by stretching of the skin over a short period of time, as during pregnancy or rapid weight gain.
  • stretchmarks — marks that remain visible on the abdomen after its distension, esp in pregnancy
  • tampico hemp — a stiff fiber obtained from the leaves of various species of Agave, as A. falcata or A. sisalana.
  • tape machine — a tape recorder.
  • team up with — join forces with
  • technomaniac — a person with an obsessional enthusiasm for technology
  • 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.
  • tetrachotomy — the segmentation of something into four parts
  • tetradrachma — a silver coin of ancient Greece, equal to four drachmas.
  • tetramorphic — (in art) of or related to a composite representation of the four evangelists' symbols
  • thalassaemia — a hereditary disease, common in many parts of the world, resulting from defects in the synthesis of the red blood pigment haemoglobin
  • thalassaemic — a person who has the blood disorder thalassaemia
  • thames river — a river in S England, flowing E through London to the North Sea. 209 miles (336 km) long.
  • thaumatogeny — the belief that the origin of life was the result of a miracle
  • the almighty — God
  • the cambrian — the Cambrian period or rock system
  • the demerara — a river in Guyana, rising in the central forest area and flowing north to the Atlantic at Georgetown. Length: 346 km (215 miles)
  • the herdsman — the constellation Boötes
  • 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 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 mountain — an extremist faction during the French Revolution led by Danton and Robespierre
  • the old adam — the evil supposedly inherent in human nature
  • the psalmist — King David, to whom all or certain of the Psalms are variously attributed
  • the red army — the Soviet army
  • the-american — a novel (1877) by Henry James.
  • theatromania — an abnormal fondness or mania for the theatre
  • thematically — of or relating to a theme.
  • theorematist — a person who creates or discovers a theorem
  • thermal unit — a unit of heat energy or of the equivalent of heat energy in work.
  • thermalgesia — pain caused by heat.
  • thermidorian — a member of the French moderate group who participated in the downfall of Robespierre and his followers on the 9th Thermidor (July 27th), 1794.
  • thermography — a technique for imitating an embossed appearance, as on business cards, stationery, or the like, by dusting printed areas with a powder that adheres only to the wet ink, and fusing the ink and powder to the paper by heat.
  • thermohaline — relating to both the temperature and salinity of ocean water
  • thermolabile — subject to destruction or loss of characteristic properties by the action of moderate heat, as certain toxins and enzymes (opposed to thermostable).
  • thermostable — capable of being subjected to a moderate degree of heat without loss of characteristic properties, as certain toxins and enzymes (opposed to thermolabile).
  • thermostated — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
  • thermostatic — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
  • theta rhythm — a pattern of brain waves having a regular frequency of 4 to 7 cycles per second as recorded by an electroencephalograph, observed during various states of light sleep or arousal.
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