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12-letter words containing h, i, n, d, t

  • section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
  • short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
  • smith island — a group of islands in S Maryland and N Virginia, in Chesapeake Bay.
  • south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
  • spiderhunter — any of several sunbirds of the genus Arachnothera, of southern Asia and the East Indies, having dull-colored plumage and a long bill.
  • spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
  • stand-offish — If you say that someone is stand-offish, you mean that they behave in a formal and rather unfriendly way.
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • 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.
  • synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
  • synarthrodia — synarthrosis.
  • tadzhikistan — a republic in central Asia, N of Afghanistan. 55,240 sq. mi. (143,600 sq. km). Capital: Dushanbe.
  • take in hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • talking head — Television Slang. a closeup picture of a person who is talking, especially as a participant in a talk show.
  • teaching aid — material used by a teacher to supplement classroom instruction or to stimulate the interest of students.
  • technobandit — a person who steals technological secrets, as from the government or a place of employment, and sells them to agents of foreign governments or to competing firms.
  • thank kindly — to thank heartily
  • the devonian — the Devonian period or rock system
  • the dingbats — delirium tremens
  • the distance — the most distant or a faraway part of the visible scene or landscape
  • the divinity — God
  • the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
  • the mainland — a particular landmass as viewed from a nearby island with which it has close links, such as Great Britain as viewed from Northern Ireland or continental Australia as viewed from Tasmania
  • 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 nearside — the side of a vehicle normally nearer the kerb (in Britain, the left side)
  • the occident — the Occident. the West; the countries of Europe and America. Western Hemisphere.
  • 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.
  • thin-skinned — having a thin skin.
  • thionic acid — any of the five acids of sulfur of the type H 2 S n O 6 , where n is from two to six.
  • 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 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 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.
  • thunderstick — bull-roarer.
  • time-honored — revered or respected because of antiquity and long continuance: a time-honored custom.
  • tough-minded — characterized by a practical, unsentimental attitude or point of view.
  • transit shed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.
  • trondhjemite — a coarse-grained igneous rock composed of quartz, plagioclase feldspar, and a small amount of biotite.
  • twenty-third — next after the twenty-second; being the ordinal number for 23.
  • unaffrighted — to frighten.
  • unauthorized — lacking permission; unsanctioned: unauthorized access.
  • unchristened — not christened
  • undelightful — giving great pleasure or delight; highly pleasing: a delightful surprise.
  • undershirted — wearing an undershirt
  • undispatched — not dispatched; not delivered or sent out
  • unfrightened — not frightened
  • unhabituated — to accustom (a person, the mind, etc.), as to a particular situation: Wealth habituated him to luxury.
  • unmethodical — characterized by lack of method or disorderliness
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