12-letter words containing c, u, t, h, e
- the pictures — a cinema or film show
- theoclymenus — (in the Odyssey) a seer who foretold the return of Odysseus and the death of Penelope's suitors.
- therapeutics — a therapeutic substance.
- thermocouple — a device that consists of the junction of two dissimilar metallic conductors, as copper and iron, in which an electromotive force is induced when the conductors are maintained at different temperatures, the force being related to the temperature difference: used to determine the temperature of a third substance by connecting it to the junction of the metals and measuring the electromotive force produced.
- thread count — thread density of a woven fabric
- three-colour — of, relating to, or comprising a colour print or a photomechanical process in which a picture is reproduced by superimposing three prints from half-tone plates in inks corresponding to the three primary colours
- thumb-sucker — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
- thundercloud — cumulonimbus.
- thunderstick — bull-roarer.
- touch screen — a touch-sensitive display screen on a computer or other electronic device: touching different portions of the screen with a finger or stylus will cause the device to take actions determined by a computer program.
- touch system — a system of typing in which each finger is assigned to one or more keys, thereby enabling a person to type without looking at the keyboard.
- touch-me-not — any of several plants belonging to the genus Impatiens, of the balsam family, especially I. noli-tangere, bearing pods that, when ripe, burst on being touched, scattering the seeds.
- touch-screen — using touch-sensitive screen
- touch-tackle — touch football.
- touchy-feely — Informal. emphasizing or marked by emotional openness and enthusiastic physicality: a touchy-feely encounter group.
- tough cookie — If you say that someone is a tough cookie, you mean that they have a strong and determined character.
- trachypterus — a dealfish or ribbonfish
- transhumance — the seasonal migration of livestock, and the people who tend them, between lowlands and adjacent mountains.
- trench mouth — Vincent's angina.
- tricephalous — with three heads
- turbo-charge — to equip (an internal-combustion engine) with a turbocharger.
- turbocharged — with additional power from turbine
- turbocharger — a supercharger that is driven by a turbine turned by exhaust gases from the engine.
- unalphabetic — in the order of the letters of the alphabet: alphabetical arrangement.
- uncharitable — deficient in charity; unkind; harsh; unforgiving; censorious; merciless: an uncharitable attitude; an uncharitable neighbor.
- unchasteness — lack of chastity
- unchristened — not christened
- uncoquettish — not flirtatious
- underclothes — clothes worn under outer clothes.
- undispatched — not dispatched; not delivered or sent out
- unentrenched — to place in a position of strength; establish firmly or solidly: safely entrenched behind undeniable facts.
- unethicality — lacking moral principles; unwilling to adhere to proper rules of conduct.
- unhysterical — not showing or suggesting any hysteria; controlled; sensible; calm;
- unmethodical — characterized by lack of method or disorderliness
- unrhetorical — not rhetorical; literal; plainspoken
- unstanchable — unstoppable
- up the creek — U.S., Canada, and Australia. a stream smaller than a river.
- urethrectomy — excision or removal of part or all of the urethra.
- urethroscope — an apparatus for observing the urethra.
- urethroscopy — observation of the urethra by a urethroscope.
- watchfulness — vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.
- white spruce — a spruce, Picea glauca, of northern North America, having bluish-green needles and silvery-brown bark.