12-letter words containing d, e, h, r
- the nearside — the side of a vehicle normally nearer the kerb (in Britain, the left side)
- the old dart — England
- the ordnance — a department of an army or government dealing with military supplies
- the red army — the Soviet army
- the red flag — a socialist song, written by James Connell (1852–1929), Irish political activist, in 1889
- the redeemer — Jesus Christ as having brought redemption to mankind
- the shudders — a feeling of horror, repugnance, etc.
- the year dot — The year dot is used to mean a very long time ago.
- the-firebird — a ballet (1910) with music by Stravinsky.
- theory-laden — (of an expression) capable of being understood only within the context of a specific theory, as for example superego, which requires the apparatus of Freudian theory in explanation
- 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.
- 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.
- thioridazine — a phenothiazine, C 21 H 26 N 2 S 2 , used as an antipsychotic chiefly in the treatment of acute psychoses and schizophrenia.
- third estate — the third of the three estates or political orders: the commons in France or England. Compare estate (def 5).
- third eyelid — nictitating membrane.
- third finger — the finger next to the little finger; ring finger.
- third gender — a gender classification in societies that recognize a gender other than male or female.
- third market — a market established by the London Stock Exchange in 1987 to trade in shares in companies required to provide less detailed information than that required by the main market or the unlisted securities market
- third person — the grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to anyone or anything other than the speaker or the one (third person singular) or ones (third person plural) being addressed.
- third sector — the segment of a nation's economy that is made up of neither public nor business concerns, as nonprofit health or educational institutions.
- third stream — a style of music that uses features of both jazz and classical music in an attempt to develop a new and distinctive musical idiom.
- third-degree — to subject to the third degree.
- third-grader — a pupil in their third year of education, esp in the US and Canada
- thitherwards — in that direction
- thoroughbred — of pure or unmixed breed, stock, or lineage, as a horse or other animal; bred from the purest and best blood.
- thought-read — to read someone's mind or psychically know what someone's thoughts are
- thread count — thread density of a woven fabric
- three-decker — any ship having three decks, tiers, etc.
- three-gaited — noting a horse trained to walk, trot, and canter, as for pleasure riding and showing.
- three-handed — involving three hands or players, as a game at cards.
- three-legged — having three legs: a three-legged stool.
- three-valued — of or relating to propositions having a value other than truth or falsity.
- throttlehold — a stifling grip; stranglehold: The new regime kept a throttlehold on academic freedom.
- thundercloud — cumulonimbus.
- thunderflash — a pyrotechnic device which is noisy, but not dangerous, and which is used in military exercises
- thunderstick — bull-roarer.
- thunderstone — any of various stones or fossils formerly thought to be fallen thunderbolts.
- thunderstorm — a transient storm of lightning and thunder, usually with rain and gusty winds, sometimes with hail or snow, produced by cumulonimbus clouds.
- time-honored — revered or respected because of antiquity and long continuance: a time-honored custom.
- title-holder — The title-holder is the person who most recently won a sports competition that is held regularly.
- tooth powder — a dentifrice in the form of a powder.
- trade school — a high school giving instruction chiefly in the skilled trades.
- transit shed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.
- tread a path — If you tread a particular path, you take a particular course of action or do something in a particular way.
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- trondhjemite — a coarse-grained igneous rock composed of quartz, plagioclase feldspar, and a small amount of biotite.
- true-hearted — faithful and loyal
- turbocharged — with additional power from turbine
- twenty-third — next after the twenty-second; being the ordinal number for 23.
- un-furbished — to restore to freshness of appearance or good condition (often followed by up): to furbish a run-down neighborhood; to furbish up one's command of a foreign language.