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

  • teleshopping — electronic shopping via videotex or other interactive information service.
  • thalassaemia — a hereditary disease, common in many parts of the world, resulting from defects in the synthesis of the red blood pigment haemoglobin
  • thalassaemic — a person who has the blood disorder thalassaemia
  • thames river — a river in S England, flowing E through London to the North Sea. 209 miles (336 km) long.
  • the ancients — the people who lived in ancient times
  • the antilles — a group of islands in the Caribbean
  • the bastille — a state prison in Paris that was stormed and destroyed (1789) in the French Revolution: its destruction is commemorated on Bastille Day, July 14
  • 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 classics — a body of literature regarded as great or lasting, esp that of ancient Greece or Rome
  • 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 eighties — the numbers 80–89 in a particular century, esp the 20th century
  • the fair sex — women collectively
  • the flickers — the cinema
  • the frizzies — the condition of having frizzy hair
  • 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 hoppings — an annual fair in Newcastle
  • the jurassic — the Jurassic period or rock system
  • the likes of — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
  • the lothians — three historic counties of SE central Scotland (now council areas): East Lothian, West Lothian, and Midlothian (including Edinburgh)
  • the mesozoic — the Mesozoic era
  • 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 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 olympics — the Olympic Games
  • the passions — feeling, as opposed to reason
  • the pictures — a cinema or film show
  • 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 psalmist — King David, to whom all or certain of the Psalms are variously attributed
  • the scorpion — the constellation Scorpio, the eighth sign of the zodiac
  • the scottish — the Scots collectively
  • the services — the armed forces
  • the silurian — the Silurian period or rock system
  • the sniffles — a cold in the head
  • the solimões — the Brazilian name for the Amazon from the Peruvian border to the Rio Negro
  • the thing is — You say the thing is to introduce an explanation, comment, or opinion, that relates to something that has just been said. The thing is is often used to identify a problem relating to what has just been said.
  • the thirties — the years numbered 30–39 in a particular century, esp the 20th century
  • the triassic — the Triassic period or rock system
  • the twenties — the years numbered 20–29 in a particular century, esp the 20th century
  • the whirlies — illness induced by excessive use of alcohol or drugs
  • the-persians — a tragedy (472 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • the-pioneers — a historical novel (1823) by James Fenimore Cooper.
  • themistocles — 527?–460? b.c, Athenian statesman.
  • theocentrism — having God as the focal point of thoughts, interests, and feelings: theocentric philosophy.
  • theodosius i — ("the Great") a.d. 346?–395, Roman emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 379–395.
  • theorematist — a person who creates or discovers a theorem
  • therapeutics — a therapeutic substance.
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