12-letter words containing d, i, r, t
- superevident — extremely or very evident
- surinam toad — a South American aquatic frog, Pipa pipa, the female of which carries the eggs and tadpoles in small depressions on its back.
- swap trading — a contract in which the parties to it exchange liabilities on outstanding debts in trading
- synarthrodia — synarthrosis.
- table tripod — a low mount or stand for a camera.
- takeover bid — offer to buy a company
- tardenoisian — of or referring to a Mesolithic culture characterized by small flint instruments
- teacher bird — the ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus, a songbird that builds a nest shaped like a dome.
- tear-stained — marked or wet with tears: a tear-stained letter.
- terebic acid — an acid, C 7 H 10 O 4 , formed by the oxidation of certain terpenes and historically important in the discovery of the structures of many terpenes.
- tertium quid — something related in some way to two things, but distinct from both; something intermediate between two things.
- tetrahedrite — a steel-gray or blackish mineral with a brilliant metallic luster, essentially copper and antimony sulfide, (Cu, Fe, Zn, Ag,) 12 Sb 4 S 13 , an end member of a series of solid solutions into which arsenic enters to form tennantite: mined as an ore of copper and silver.
- tetrodotoxin — a neurotoxin, C 11 H 17 N 3 O 3 , occurring in a species of puffer fish: ingestion of the toxin is usually rapidly fatal due to heart failure or asphyxiation; used experimentally to block impulse conduction potential in excitable cells.
- the hebrides — a group of over 500 islands off the W coast of Scotland: separated by the North Minch, Little Minch, and the Sea of the Hebrides: the chief islands are Skye, Raasay, Rum, Eigg, Coll, Tiree, Mull, Jura, Colonsay, and Islay (Inner Hebrides), and Lewis with Harris, North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist, and Barra (Outer Hebrides)
- the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
- the nearside — the side of a vehicle normally nearer the kerb (in Britain, the left side)
- the-firebird — a ballet (1910) with music by Stravinsky.
- 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.
- 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
- thirdborough — an under constable of a township
- thirty-third — next after the thirty-second; being the ordinal number for 33.
- this-worldly — distinguished by or relating to material or earthly concerns; not spiritual or concerned with life in a future or imaginary world
- thitherwards — in that direction
- three-gaited — noting a horse trained to walk, trot, and canter, as for pleasure riding and showing.
- thunderstick — bull-roarer.
- tidal energy — energy obtained by harnessing tidal power
- tiger lizard — either of two lacertid lizards, Nucras intertexta and N. tessellata, of southern Africa, having a gray or brown body marked with black spots and bars.
- timberdoodle — the American woodcock, Philohela minor.
- time-expired — (of a cheque) that has lapsed and is no longer valid
- time-honored — revered or respected because of antiquity and long continuance: a time-honored custom.
- tin-fluoride — stannous fluoride.
- tinker's dam — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
- title-holder — The title-holder is the person who most recently won a sports competition that is held regularly.
- top dressing — tennis court
- tradescantia — any plant of the American genus Tradescantia, widely cultivated for their striped variegated leaves: family Commelinaceae
- trading card — one of a set of small cards, as one depicting professional athletes, either sold separately or included as a premium with packages of bubblegum or the like, collected and traded, especially by children.
- trading post — a store established in an unsettled or thinly settled region by a trader or trading company to obtain furs and local products in exchange for supplies, clothing, other goods, or for cash.
- traditionist — a traditionalist.
- traducianism — the doctrine that the human soul is propagated along with the body. Compare creationism (def 3).
- traffic duty — an assignment to help the flow of traffic and enforce traffic regulations