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12-letter words containing d, t, h

  • take in hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • talking head — Television Slang. a closeup picture of a person who is talking, especially as a participant in a talk show.
  • talmud torah — (in Europe) a community-supported Jewish elementary school for teaching children Hebrew, Bible, and the fundamentals of Judaism.
  • teacher bird — the ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus, a songbird that builds a nest shaped like a dome.
  • teaching aid — material used by a teacher to supplement classroom instruction or to stimulate the interest of students.
  • 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.
  • tenth-grader — someone who is in their tenth year of education in the US
  • tetradrachma — a silver coin of ancient Greece, equal to four drachmas.
  • 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.
  • tetrahydrate — a hydrate that contains four molecules of water, as potassium sodium tartrate, KNaC 4 H 4 O 6 ·4H 2 O.
  • tetrahydroxy — (of a molecule) containing four hydroxyl groups.
  • thank kindly — to thank heartily
  • 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 ardennes — a wooded plateau in SE Belgium, Luxembourg, and NE France: scene of heavy fighting in both World Wars
  • the bereaved — the survivors of a person who has died recently
  • the bushveld — an area of low altitude in N South Africa, having scrub vegetation
  • the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
  • the deceased — the dead person or persons
  • 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 departed — the dead person or dead persons
  • the devonian — the Devonian period or rock system
  • the dingbats — delirium tremens
  • the disabled — those who are physically or mentally disabled; the handicapped
  • the distance — the most distant or a faraway part of the visible scene or landscape
  • the divinity — God
  • the dustheap — obscurity or oblivion
  • the east end — a densely populated part of E London containing former industrial and dock areas, now extensively redeveloped for offices
  • the go-ahead — permission to proceed
  • the good oil — true or reliable facts, information, etc
  • 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 herdsman — the constellation Boötes
  • the highveld — the high-altitude grassland region of E South Africa
  • the hundreds — the numbers 100 to 109
  • the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
  • the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
  • 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 nearside — the side of a vehicle normally nearer the kerb (in Britain, the left side)
  • the occident — the Occident. the West; the countries of Europe and America. Western Hemisphere.
  • the old adam — the evil supposedly inherent in human nature
  • the old bill — policemen collectively or in general
  • the old dart — England
  • the old days — the past
  • the ordnance — a department of an army or government dealing with military supplies
  • the pandects — a digest of Roman civil law in fifty books, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the 6th cent. a.d.; the Digest
  • 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 west end — a part of W central London containing the main shopping and entertainment areas
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