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

  • cryptorchids — Plural form of cryptorchid.
  • cryptorchism — failure of one or both testes to descend into the scrotum.
  • custom house — a government office, esp at a port, where customs are collected and ships cleared for entry
  • customhouses — Plural form of customhouse.
  • customs shed — a large building in which customs officers carry out customs inspections
  • cymotrichous — having wavy hair
  • cytochalasin — any of a group of metabolites derived from fungus that interfere with cell processes
  • day hospital — part of a hospital that offers therapeutic services, where patients usually attend all day but go home or to a hospital ward at night
  • death throes — The death throes of something are its final stages, just before it fails completely or ends.
  • demolishment — to destroy or ruin (a building or other structure), especially on purpose; tear down; raze.
  • diastrophism — the process of movement and deformation of the earth's crust that gives rise to large-scale features such as continents, ocean basins, and mountains
  • dichotomised — Simple past tense and past participle of dichotomise.
  • dichromatism — the quality or condition of being dichromatic
  • dictatorship — Dictatorship is government by a dictator.
  • diphosphates — a pyrophosphate.
  • diphtheroids — resembling diphtheria, especially in the formation of a false membrane in the throat.
  • directorship — a person or thing that directs.
  • disauthorize — to take authority away from (a person or organization)
  • disco lights — coloured lights that flash on and off in time to the music at a disco etc
  • discotheques — Plural form of discotheque.
  • dishonesties — Plural form of dishonesty.
  • disinhibitor — Something that causes a reduction in one's inhibitions; that makes people, or animals act more impulsively.
  • dispatch box — a case or box used to hold valuables or documents, esp official state documents
  • downshifting — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a lower gear.
  • dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
  • droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
  • dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.
  • dyotheletism — the teaching that Christ had both a divine will and a human will
  • e-thrombosis — a clot in the bloodstream caused by long periods spent being physically inactive at a computer
  • earth closet — a type of lavatory in which earth is used to cover excreta
  • east chicago — a port in NW Indiana, on Lake Michigan, near Chicago.
  • east lothian — a historic county in SE Scotland.
  • eating house — a restaurant or other place where one can eat
  • echolocators — Plural form of echolocator.
  • electroclash — a type of electronic music, originating in the first decade of the 21st century, that combines modern techno with synthesizer music characteristic of the 1980s
  • electroshock — Of or relating to medical treatment by means of electric shocks.
  • encompasseth — Archaic third-person singular form of encompass.
  • enhypostasia — personalities existing in union (Jesus Christ and God the Son)
  • enhypostatic — relating to enhypostasia
  • enophthalmos — The posterior displacement of the eyeball within the orbit due to changes in the volume of the orbit (bone) relative to its contents (the eyeball and orbital fat), or loss of function of the orbitalis muscle.
  • enthesopathy — (pathology) A disorder of entheses (bone attachments).
  • epanorthosis — (rhetoric) A rhetorical device or element in which a speaker or writer retracts a word that has been spoken and substitutes a stronger or more suitable word; often done for emphasis or sarcasm.
  • epitheliomas — Plural form of epithelioma.
  • eratosthenes — ?276–?194 bc, Greek mathematician and astronomer, who calculated the circumference of the earth by observing the angle of the sun's rays at different places
  • erythematous — Of or pertaining to erythema.
  • erythroblast — An immature erythrocyte containing a nucleus.
  • erythrocytes — Plural form of erythrocyte.
  • esophagotomy — (surgery) The operation of making an incision into the esophagus for the purpose of removing an obstruction.
  • etheostomine — relating to small freshwater fish in the genus Etheostoma
  • ethnogenesis — The emergence of a distinct, recognizable, ethnic identity.
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