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12-letter words containing d, i, t, h, o

  • rhytidectomy — face-lift.
  • ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
  • right-to-die — asserting or advocating the right to refuse extraordinary medical measures to prolong one's life when one is terminally ill or irreversibly comatose: right-to-die laws.
  • scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
  • second birth — spiritual rebirth.
  • second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
  • section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
  • shittim wood — the wood, probably acacia, of which the ark of the covenant and various parts of the tabernacle were made. Ex. 25, 26.
  • short radius — the perpendicular distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a side
  • short-haired — having short hair
  • short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
  • shortsighted — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
  • shut-out bid — a pre-emptive bid
  • sodium light — the light produced by a sodium lamp
  • south euclid — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
  • spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
  • stand-offish — If you say that someone is stand-offish, you mean that they behave in a formal and rather unfriendly way.
  • stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.
  • studio couch — an upholstered couch, usually without a back, convertible into a double bed by sliding a bed frame out from beneath it and covering the frame with the mattress that forms the upper thickness of the upholstery.
  • synarthrodia — synarthrosis.
  • technobandit — a person who steals technological secrets, as from the government or a place of employment, and sells them to agents of foreign governments or to competing firms.
  • that will do — If you say that will do to a child, you are telling them to stop behaving in the way that they are.
  • the devonian — the Devonian period or rock system
  • the good oil — true or reliable facts, information, etc
  • the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
  • the occident — the Occident. the West; the countries of Europe and America. Western Hemisphere.
  • the old bill — policemen collectively or in general
  • theodosius i — ("the Great") a.d. 346?–395, Roman emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 379–395.
  • 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.
  • thioaldehyde — any of a class of compounds formed by the action of hydrogen sulfide on aldehydes, and regarded as aldehydes with the oxygen replaced by sulfur.
  • thiodiglycol — C4H10O2S, a yellowish viscous liquid used as a solvent
  • thionic acid — any of the five acids of sulfur of the type H 2 S n O 6 , where n is from two to six.
  • 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 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.
  • thirdborough — an under constable of a township
  • this side of — If you say that something will not happen this side of a date or event, you mean that it will not happen before that date or event.
  • this-worldly — distinguished by or relating to material or earthly concerns; not spiritual or concerned with life in a future or imaginary world
  • 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.
  • tough-minded — characterized by a practical, unsentimental attitude or point of view.
  • 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.
  • trophy child — anything taken in war, hunting, competition, etc., especially when preserved as a memento; spoil, prize, or award.
  • typhoid mary — Mary ("Typhoid Mary") 1869?–1938, U.S. cook, born in Ireland: known immune carrier of typhoid fever who infected many with the disease, institutionalized in 1914.
  • unauthorized — lacking permission; unsanctioned: unauthorized access.
  • unmethodical — characterized by lack of method or disorderliness
  • unmethodized — not organized systematically, according to a method
  • unprohibited — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
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