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12-letter words containing r, h, n, e

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • tenth-grader — someone who is in their tenth year of education in the US
  • terebinthine — terebinthinate.
  • the ardennes — a wooded plateau in SE Belgium, Luxembourg, and NE France: scene of heavy fighting in both World Wars
  • the barbican — a building complex in the City of London: includes residential developments and the Barbican Arts Centre (completed 1982) housing concert and exhibition halls, theatres, cinemas, etc
  • the brownies — (in the US) the junior division of the Girl Scouts, usually for girls six to eight years old
  • the cambrian — the Cambrian period or rock system
  • the creation — God's act of bringing the universe into being
  • the crescent — the emblem of Islam or Turkey
  • the herdsman — the constellation Boötes
  • the hundreds — the numbers 100 to 109
  • the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
  • the interior — the domestic or internal affairs of any of certain countries
  • the internet — the single worldwide computer network that interconnects other computer networks, on which end-user services, such as World Wide Web sites or data archives, are located, enabling data and other information to be exchanged
  • the nazarene — Jesus
  • the nearside — the side of a vehicle normally nearer the kerb (in Britain, the left side)
  • 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 scorpion — the constellation Scorpio, the eighth sign of the zodiac
  • the silurian — the Silurian period or rock system
  • 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-american — a novel (1877) by Henry James.
  • the-persians — a tragedy (472 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • the-pioneers — a historical novel (1823) by James Fenimore Cooper.
  • the-stranger — French L'Étranger. a novel (1942) by Albert Camus.
  • theanthropic — of or relating to both God or a god and human beings; both divine and human.
  • theatregoing — the act of regularly attending the theatre
  • theatromania — an abnormal fondness or mania for the theatre
  • theatrophone — a late 19th century service that allowed subscribers to listen to concerts or plays through the telephone
  • theocentrism — having God as the focal point of thoughts, interests, and feelings: theocentric philosophy.
  • theoretician — a person who deals with or is expert in the theoretical side of a subject: a military theoretician.
  • theorization — to form a theory or theories.
  • 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
  • thereagainst — in opposition to; in a contrary manner
  • therein lies — When you say therein lies a situation or problem, you mean that an existing situation has caused that situation or problem.
  • thereinafter — afterward in that document.
  • thermal unit — a unit of heat energy or of the equivalent of heat energy in work.
  • 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.
  • thermohaline — relating to both the temperature and salinity of ocean water
  • thermosiphon — an arrangement of siphon tubes that enables water in a heating apparatus to circulate by means of convection.
  • thioarsenate — any of a group of chemical compounds considered salts of the thioarsenic acids
  • thioarsenite — any of a group of chemical compounds considered salts of the thioarsenious acids
  • 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.
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