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

  • stouthearted — brave and resolute; dauntless.
  • stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
  • stratosphere — the region of the upper atmosphere extending upward from the tropopause to about 30 miles (50 km) above the earth, characterized by little vertical change in temperature.
  • strep throat — an acute sore throat caused by hemolytic streptococci and accompanied by fever and prostration.
  • stretch limo — A stretch limo is a very long and luxurious car in which a rich, famous, or important person is driven somewhere.
  • 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.
  • strobe light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
  • strobe-light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
  • strophiolate — having a strophiole
  • subthreshold — (of a stimulus) too weak to produce a response.
  • super-smooth — dead-smooth.
  • support hose — elastic stockings worn to reduce pressure on the veins of the leg, esp for people with varicose veins
  • synantherous — with united anthers
  • synarthroses — immovable articulation; a fixed or immovable joint; suture.
  • synchroneity — the state of being synchronous; synchronism.
  • tech support — an advising and troubleshooting service provided by a manufacturer, typically a software or hardware developer, to its customers, often online or on the telephone.
  • technetronic — pertaining to or characterized by cultural changes brought about by advances in technology, electronics, and communications: a technetronic era.
  • technicolour — brightly, showily, or garishly coloured; vividly noticeable
  • technocratic — of, relating to, or designating a technocrat or technocracy.
  • technography — the description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
  • 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.
  • telautograph — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting, drawings, etc, the movements of an electromagnetically controlled pen at one end being transmitted along a line to a similar pen at the receiving end
  • telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
  • telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
  • teratophobia — fear of giving birth to a monster
  • tetrachotomy — the segmentation of something into four parts
  • tetrahydroxy — (of a molecule) containing four hydroxyl groups.
  • tetramorphic — (in art) of or related to a composite representation of the four evangelists' symbols
  • the big four — a small powerful group, as of banks, companies, etc, esp the four largest banks in Britain (Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, and NatWest)
  • the bosporus — a strait between European and Asian Turkey, linking the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
  • the brownies — (in the US) the junior division of the Girl Scouts, usually for girls six to eight years old
  • 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 creation — God's act of bringing the universe into being
  • the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
  • the interior — the domestic or internal affairs of any of certain countries
  • the old dart — England
  • the ordnance — a department of an army or government dealing with military supplies
  • 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 populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
  • the prophets — one of the three major divisions of the Jewish Holy Scriptures, following the Pentateuch and preceding the Hagiographa
  • the scorpion — the constellation Scorpio, the eighth sign of the zodiac
  • the sorbonne — a part of the University of Paris containing the faculties of science and literature: founded in 1253 by Robert de Sorbon as a theological college; given to the university in 1808
  • the troubles — political unrest or public disturbances
  • the year dot — The year dot is used to mean a very long time ago.
  • the-overcoat — a short story (1842) by Gogol.
  • the-pioneers — a historical novel (1823) by James Fenimore Cooper.
  • theanthropic — of or relating to both God or a god and human beings; both divine and human.
  • theatre-goer — a person who goes to the theater, especially often or habitually.
  • theatregoing — the act of regularly attending the theatre
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