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12-letter words containing h, e, r, d, t

  • 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.
  • street child — Street children are homeless children who live outdoors in a city and live by begging or stealing.
  • strengthened — to make stronger; give strength to.
  • strike hands — to show agreement by clasping hands
  • 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.
  • subthreshold — (of a stimulus) too weak to produce a response.
  • 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 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 hundreds — the numbers 100 to 109
  • the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
  • the nearside — the side of a vehicle normally nearer the kerb (in Britain, the left side)
  • the old dart — England
  • the ordnance — a department of an army or government dealing with military supplies
  • 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 year dot — The year dot is used to mean a very long time ago.
  • the-firebird — a ballet (1910) with music by Stravinsky.
  • theory-laden — (of an expression) capable of being understood only within the context of a specific theory, as for example superego, which requires the apparatus of Freudian theory in explanation
  • thermidorian — a member of the French moderate group who participated in the downfall of Robespierre and his followers on the 9th Thermidor (July 27th), 1794.
  • thermostated — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
  • thioridazine — a phenothiazine, C 21 H 26 N 2 S 2 , used as an antipsychotic chiefly in the treatment of acute psychoses and schizophrenia.
  • third estate — the third of the three estates or political orders: the commons in France or England. Compare estate (def 5).
  • third eyelid — nictitating membrane.
  • third finger — the finger next to the little finger; ring finger.
  • third gender — a gender classification in societies that recognize a gender other than male or female.
  • third market — a market established by the London Stock Exchange in 1987 to trade in shares in companies required to provide less detailed information than that required by the main market or the unlisted securities market
  • third person — the grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to anyone or anything other than the speaker or the one (third person singular) or ones (third person plural) being addressed.
  • third sector — the segment of a nation's economy that is made up of neither public nor business concerns, as nonprofit health or educational institutions.
  • third stream — a style of music that uses features of both jazz and classical music in an attempt to develop a new and distinctive musical idiom.
  • third-degree — to subject to the third degree.
  • third-grader — a pupil in their third year of education, esp in the US and Canada
  • thitherwards — in that direction
  • thoroughbred — of pure or unmixed breed, stock, or lineage, as a horse or other animal; bred from the purest and best blood.
  • thought-read — to read someone's mind or psychically know what someone's thoughts are
  • thread count — thread density of a woven fabric
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