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12-letter words containing e, n, t, h, s

  • stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
  • 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.
  • sudden death — an overtime period in which a tied contest is won and play is stopped immediately after one of the contestants scores, as in football, or goes ahead, as in golf.
  • superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
  • sweetishness — the quality of being sweetish
  • sycophantize — to act the sycophant
  • synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
  • synaesthesia — synesthesia.
  • synaesthesis — the harmonious combination of differing impulses arising from a work of art
  • synaesthetic — synesthesia.
  • synantherous — with united anthers
  • synarthroses — immovable articulation; a fixed or immovable joint; suture.
  • synchroneity — the state of being synchronous; synchronism.
  • synthesizing — to form (a material or abstract entity) by combining parts or elements (opposed to analyze): to synthesize a statement.
  • syntheticism — a synthetic nature or approach
  • take chances — to behave in a risky manner
  • technologies — the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science.
  • technologist — a person who specializes in technology.
  • technostress — any mental stress caused by (too much) interaction with technology
  • telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • teleshopping — electronic shopping via videotex or other interactive information service.
  • tenths-place — next after ninth; being the ordinal number for ten.
  • thankfulness — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
  • the analects — a collection of Confucius' teachings
  • the ancients — the people who lived in ancient times
  • the antilles — a group of islands in the Caribbean
  • the ardennes — a wooded plateau in SE Belgium, Luxembourg, and NE France: scene of heavy fighting in both World Wars
  • the brownies — (in the US) the junior division of the Girl Scouts, usually for girls six to eight years old
  • the business — If you say that someone or something is the business, you mean that they are the best of their kind.
  • the conquest — the conquest by the United Kingdom of French North America, ending in 1763
  • the crescent — the emblem of Islam or Turkey
  • the dingbats — delirium tremens
  • the distance — the most distant or a faraway part of the visible scene or landscape
  • the east end — a densely populated part of E London containing former industrial and dock areas, now extensively redeveloped for offices
  • the elements — the first or basic principles; rudiments
  • the herdsman — the constellation Boötes
  • the hoppings — an annual fair in Newcastle
  • the hundreds — the numbers 100 to 109
  • the lothians — three historic counties of SE central Scotland (now council areas): East Lothian, West Lothian, and Midlothian (including Edinburgh)
  • the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
  • 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 monsoons — the monsoon rains
  • the munchies — a craving for food, esp when induced by alcohol or drugs
  • the nearside — the side of a vehicle normally nearer the kerb (in Britain, the left side)
  • the nineties — the numbers 90–99 in a particular century, esp the 20th century
  • 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 passions — feeling, as opposed to reason
  • the pointers — the two brightest stars in the Plough (Dubhe and Merak), which lie in the direction pointing towards the Pole Star and are therefore used to locate it
  • the saltsjön — an inlet of the Baltic Sea in Sweden
  • the scorpion — the constellation Scorpio, the eighth sign of the zodiac
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