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

  • talmud torah — (in Europe) a community-supported Jewish elementary school for teaching children Hebrew, Bible, and the fundamentals of Judaism.
  • 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
  • thalassocrat — a nation that has dominion over the seas.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • theophrastus — 372?–287 b.c, Greek philosopher.
  • theorematist — a person who creates or discovers a theorem
  • 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
  • therethrough — (of a place) through it; through them
  • 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.
  • 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.
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