12-letter words containing h, e, a, r, t, d
- radiesthetic — of or relating to radiesthesia
- radiotherapy — treatment of disease by means of x-rays or of radioactive substances.
- rammed earth — a mixture of sand, loam, clay, and other ingredients rammed hard within forms as a building material.
- ratchet down — If something ratchets down or is ratcheted down, it decreases by a fixed amount or degree, and seems unlikely to increase again.
- read-through — reading (def 1).
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- rehydratable — capable of being rehydrated
- rhodomontade — rodomontade
- right-angled — A right-angled triangle has one angle that is a right angle.
- right-handed — having the right hand or arm more serviceable than the left; using the right hand by preference: a right-handed painter.
- right-hander — a person who is right-handed, especially a baseball pitcher who throws with the right hand.
- rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
- sacred heart — the physical heart of Jesus, to which special devotion is offered as a symbol of His love and redemptive sacrifice.
- say the word — If someone says the word, they give their approval as a sign that something should start to happen.
- screw thread — Also called worm. the helical ridge of a screw.
- sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
- shirt-tailed — (of a garment) having a shirt-tail
- shop steward — commerce: union rep
- short-haired — having short hair
- short-handed — not having the usual or necessary number of workers, helpers, etc.
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- sixth-grader — a pupil in their sixth US school year after kindergarten, who is usually around 11 or 12 years old
- soft-hearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
- spatter dash — roughcast (def 1).
- spatter-dash — Also called spatter dash. an exterior wall finish composed of mortar and fine pebbles mixed together and dashed against the wall. Compare pebble dash.
- stagger head — dropline.
- stakeholders — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
- starchedness — the condition or quality of being starched
- stepdaughter — a daughter of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- stonyhearted — unfeeling; pitiless; cruel
- storm-lashed — badly affected by storms
- stouthearted — brave and resolute; dauntless.
- straightbred — (of animals) purebred; having parents of the same breed
- straightedge — a bar or strip of wood, plastic, or metal having at least one long edge of sufficiently reliable straightness for use in drawing or testing straight lines, plane surfaces, etc.
- stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
- strike hands — to show agreement by clasping hands
- stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
- teacher bird — the ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus, a songbird that builds a nest shaped like a dome.
- 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.
- 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 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 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 herdsman — the constellation Boötes