12-letter words containing d, t, h
- title-holder — The title-holder is the person who most recently won a sports competition that is held regularly.
- to hold fast — If you hold something fast, you hold it tightly and firmly. If something is stuck fast, it is stuck very firmly and cannot move.
- to hold sway — If someone or something holds sway, they have great power or influence over a particular place or activity.
- to the death — to the very end (of a struggle, quarrel, etc.)
- toe and heel — a technique used by racing drivers while changing gear on sharp bends, in which the brake is operated by the toe (or heel) of the right foot while the heel (or toe) simultaneously operates the accelerator
- tooth powder — a dentifrice in the form of a powder.
- touch and go — precarious situation
- touch ground — (of a ship) to strike the sea bed
- touch-and-go — risky; precarious: a touch-and-go descent down the mountain.
- tough-minded — characterized by a practical, unsentimental attitude or point of view.
- 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.
- trophy child — anything taken in war, hunting, competition, etc., especially when preserved as a memento; spoil, prize, or award.
- true-hearted — faithful and loyal
- turbocharged — with additional power from turbine
- twenty-third — next after the twenty-second; being the ordinal number for 23.
- 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.
- unaffrighted — to frighten.
- unauthorized — lacking permission; unsanctioned: unauthorized access.
- unchristened — not christened
- undelightful — giving great pleasure or delight; highly pleasing: a delightful surprise.
- under threat — If a person or thing is under threat, there is a danger that something unpleasant might be done to them, or that they might cease to exist.
- underclothes — clothes worn under outer clothes.
- undershirted — wearing an undershirt
- underwrought — to do less work on than is necessary or required: to underwork an idea.
- undispatched — not dispatched; not delivered or sent out
- unenthralled — not enthralled or charmed; uncaptivated
- unentrenched — to place in a position of strength; establish firmly or solidly: safely entrenched behind undeniable facts.
- unfrightened — not frightened
- unhabituated — to accustom (a person, the mind, etc.), as to a particular situation: Wealth habituated him to luxury.
- unhyphenated — without a hyphen
- unmethodical — characterized by lack of method or disorderliness
- unmethodized — not organized systematically, according to a method
- unmethylated — Also called methoxide. any derivative of methyl alcohol, as sodium methylate, CH 3 ONa.
- unorthodoxly — not conforming to rules, traditions, or modes of conduct, as of a doctrine, religion, or philosophy; not orthodox: an unorthodox ideology.
- unprohibited — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
- unroadworthy — not mechanically sound or suitable for use on the road
- unthreatened — not threatened; free from threats or danger
- vortex depth — The vortex depth is the depth below an impeller at which its influence can still be seen in a mixed fluid.
- warm-hearted — having or showing sympathy, affection, kindness, cordiality, etc.: a warm-hearted welcome.
- watchdogging — a dog kept to guard property.
- watchstander — (US) A person who is on watch on a ship.
- water shield — Also called water target. an aquatic plant, Brasenia schreberi, of the water lily family, having purple flowers, floating, elliptic leaves, and a jellylike coating on the underwater stems and roots.
- water-harden — to quench (steel) in water.
- wattenscheid — an industrial town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia east of Essen
- weak-hearted — without courage or fortitude; fainthearted.
- weather deck — (on a ship) the uppermost continuous deck exposed to the weather.