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12-letter words containing h, u, t, m

  • stump speech — a political campaign speech, especially one made on a campaign tour.
  • summerweight — (of clothes) suitable in weight for wear in the summer; relatively light
  • super-smooth — dead-smooth.
  • talmud torah — (in Europe) a community-supported Jewish elementary school for teaching children Hebrew, Bible, and the fundamentals of Judaism.
  • team up with — join forces with
  • 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.
  • thaumatogeny — the belief that the origin of life was the result of a miracle
  • thaumatology — the study or description of miracles.
  • thaumaturgic — pertaining to a thaumaturge or to thaumaturgy.
  • the monument — a tall columnar building designed (1671) by Sir Christopher Wren to commemorate the Fire of London (1666), which destroyed a large part of the medieval city
  • the mountain — an extremist faction during the French Revolution led by Danton and Robespierre
  • the munchies — a craving for food, esp when induced by alcohol or drugs
  • theoclymenus — (in the Odyssey) a seer who foretold the return of Odysseus and the death of Penelope's suitors.
  • thermal unit — a unit of heat energy or of the equivalent of heat energy in work.
  • thermocouple — a device that consists of the junction of two dissimilar metallic conductors, as copper and iron, in which an electromotive force is induced when the conductors are maintained at different temperatures, the force being related to the temperature difference: used to determine the temperature of a third substance by connecting it to the junction of the metals and measuring the electromotive force produced.
  • throw mud at — to slander; vilify
  • thumb-sucker — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
  • thunderstorm — a transient storm of lightning and thunder, usually with rain and gusty winds, sometimes with hail or snow, produced by cumulonimbus clouds.
  • thutmose iii — flourished c1475 b.c, Egyptian ruler: conqueror of the Middle East.
  • thymus gland — a ductless, butterfly-shaped gland lying at the base of the neck, formed mostly of lymphatic tissue and aiding in the production of T cells of the immune system: after puberty, the lymphatic tissue gradually degenerates.
  • touch bottom — to run aground
  • touch system — a system of typing in which each finger is assigned to one or more keys, thereby enabling a person to type without looking at the keyboard.
  • touch-me-not — any of several plants belonging to the genus Impatiens, of the balsam family, especially I. noli-tangere, bearing pods that, when ripe, burst on being touched, scattering the seeds.
  • tough-minded — characterized by a practical, unsentimental attitude or point of view.
  • tourist home — a private home with rooms for rent, usually for one night, to tourists, travelers, etc.
  • trachomatous — a chronic, contagious infection of the conjunctiva and cornea, characterized by the formation of granulations and scarring and caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis.
  • tramping hut — a hut in the bush for the use of trampers
  • transhumance — the seasonal migration of livestock, and the people who tend them, between lowlands and adjacent mountains.
  • trench mouth — Vincent's angina.
  • trichotomous — division into three parts, classes, categories, etc.
  • triumphalism — triumphant spirit or character.
  • triumphalist — Triumphalist behaviour is behaviour in which politicians or organizations celebrate a victory or a great success, especially when this is intended to upset the people they have defeated.
  • triumphantly — having achieved victory or success; victorious; successful.
  • tub-thumping — to promote something or express opinions vociferously.
  • tussock moth — any of several moths of the family Lymantriidae, the larvae of which have characteristic tufts of hair on the body and feed on the leaves of various deciduous trees.
  • ultima thule — (italics) Latin. the highest degree attainable.
  • unfathomable — not able to be fathomed, or completely understood; incomprehensible: heroism in the face of unfathomable conflict.
  • uniform with — having the same form, appearance, etc. as
  • unmethodical — characterized by lack of method or disorderliness
  • unmethodized — not organized systematically, according to a method
  • unmethylated — Also called methoxide. any derivative of methyl alcohol, as sodium methylate, CH 3 ONa.
  • urethrectomy — excision or removal of part or all of the urethra.
  • urethrostomy — the construction of an artificial opening from the urethra through the perineum, permitting the passage of urine.
  • well-thumbed — A book or magazine that is well-thumbed is creased and marked because it has been read so often.
  • whitmanesque — of or like Walt Whitman, his style, or his outlook; often, specif., democratic, expansive, exuberant, etc.
  • wide-mouthed — having a wide mouth
  • xanthomatous — of, relating to, or marked by xanthoma
  • xiphisternum — The lowest part of the sternum; the xiphoid process.
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