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12-letter words containing r, a, t, h, o, l

  • pyrosulphate — any salt of pyrosulphuric acid
  • reality show — A reality show is a type of television program that aims to show how ordinary people behave in everyday life, or in situations, often created by the program makers, which are intended to represent everyday life.
  • relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
  • retrophiliac — someone who has a strong liking for things from the past
  • rhetorically — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
  • rheumatology — the study and treatment of rheumatic diseases.
  • sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
  • schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
  • shark patrol — a watch for sharks kept by an aircraft flying over beaches used by swimmers
  • shoe leather — treated animal skin used for shoes
  • shore patrol — (often initial capital letters) members of an organization in the U.S. Navy having police duties similar to those performed by military police. Abbreviation: SP.
  • short ballot — a ballot containing only candidates for the most important legislative and executive posts, leaving judicial and lesser administrative posts to be filled by appointment.
  • shower stall — an individual compartment or self-contained unit, having a single shower and accommodating one person.
  • slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
  • solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
  • spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
  • stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
  • stakeholders — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
  • stenothermal — (of animals or plants) able to exist only within a narrow range of temperature
  • storm-lashed — badly affected by storms
  • stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
  • strophiolate — having a strophiole
  • stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
  • talk through — guide through: a procedure, etc.
  • talmud torah — (in Europe) a community-supported Jewish elementary school for teaching children Hebrew, Bible, and the fundamentals of Judaism.
  • 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.
  • thalassocrat — a nation that has dominion over the seas.
  • 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 old dart — England
  • the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
  • theocratical — a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities.
  • theologaster — a person who pretends to be a theologian; a shallow or quack theologian
  • 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
  • thermohaline — relating to both the temperature and salinity of ocean water
  • thermolabile — subject to destruction or loss of characteristic properties by the action of moderate heat, as certain toxins and enzymes (opposed to thermostable).
  • thermostable — capable of being subjected to a moderate degree of heat without loss of characteristic properties, as certain toxins and enzymes (opposed to thermolabile).
  • thoracically — by way of the thorax; in the thorax
  • throttleable — capable of having the thrust varied.
  • tollgatherer — a person who collects tolls, taxes, or other imposts.
  • torchon lace — a bobbin-made linen or cotton lace with loosely twisted threads in simple, open patterns.
  • trade school — a high school giving instruction chiefly in the skilled trades.
  • trefoil arch — an arch with cusplike intrados.
  • triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
  • tricephalous — with three heads
  • trophallaxis — (among social insects) the exchange of nutriments or other secretions between members of a colony.
  • tyrolean hat — a man's soft felt hat with a somewhat conical crown that is flat and creased at the top, a narrow brim partially turned up, and, usually, a feather for decoration
  • unhistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
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