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

  • synchroneity — the state of being synchronous; synchronism.
  • talking shop — If you say that a conference or a committee is just a talking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.
  • 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.
  • technologies — the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science.
  • technologist — a person who specializes in technology.
  • 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.
  • teleshopping — electronic shopping via videotex or other interactive information service.
  • thalassocrat — a nation that has dominion over the seas.
  • thanks a lot — thank you
  • the absolute — ultimate reality regarded as uncaused, unmodified, unified and complete, timeless, etc.
  • the bollocks — something excellent
  • 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 conquest — the conquest by the United Kingdom of French North America, ending in 1763
  • the homeless — those typically poor or sometimes mentally ill people who are unable to maintain a place to live and therefore often may sleep in the streets, parks, etc.
  • the hoppings — an annual fair in Newcastle
  • the hot seat — If you are in the hot seat, you are responsible for making important and difficult decisions.
  • the likes of — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
  • the lothians — three historic counties of SE central Scotland (now council areas): East Lothian, West Lothian, and Midlothian (including Edinburgh)
  • the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
  • the mesozoic — the Mesozoic era
  • the monsoons — the monsoon rains
  • the old days — the past
  • the olympics — the Olympic Games
  • the passions — feeling, as opposed to reason
  • 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 saltsjön — an inlet of the Baltic Sea in Sweden
  • the scorpion — the constellation Scorpio, the eighth sign of the zodiac
  • the scottish — the Scots collectively
  • the shallows — a shallow place in a body of water
  • the solimões — the Brazilian name for the Amazon from the Peruvian border to the Rio Negro
  • 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 wop-wops — the backblocks; the back of beyond
  • the-pioneers — a historical novel (1823) by James Fenimore Cooper.
  • themistocles — 527?–460? b.c, Athenian statesman.
  • theocentrism — having God as the focal point of thoughts, interests, and feelings: theocentric philosophy.
  • theoclymenus — (in the Odyssey) a seer who foretold the return of Odysseus and the death of Penelope's suitors.
  • theodosius i — ("the Great") a.d. 346?–395, Roman emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 379–395.
  • 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
  • thermosiphon — an arrangement of siphon tubes that enables water in a heating apparatus to circulate by means of convection.
  • thermosphere — the region of the upper atmosphere in which temperature increases continuously with altitude, encompassing essentially all of the atmosphere above the mesosphere.
  • thermostable — capable of being subjected to a moderate degree of heat without loss of characteristic properties, as certain toxins and enzymes (opposed to thermolabile).
  • thermostated — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
  • thermostatic — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
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