12-letter words containing t, c, h, a, d
- semiattached — partially attached; semidetached.
- semidetached — partly detached.
- shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- smooth-faced — beardless; smooth-shaven.
- snatch squad — a squad of soldiers or police trained to deal with demonstrations by picking out and arresting the alleged ringleaders
- stacked heel — a shoe heel constructed from several layers of material.
- starchedness — the condition or quality of being starched
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- teacher bird — the ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus, a songbird that builds a nest shaped like a dome.
- teaching aid — material used by a teacher to supplement classroom instruction or to stimulate the interest of students.
- technobandit — a person who steals technological secrets, as from the government or a place of employment, and sells them to agents of foreign governments or to competing firms.
- tetradrachma — a silver coin of ancient Greece, equal to four drachmas.
- 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 deceased — the dead person or persons
- the distance — the most distant or a faraway part of the visible scene or landscape
- the ordnance — a department of an army or government dealing with military supplies
- the pandects — a digest of Roman civil law in fifty books, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the 6th cent. a.d.; the Digest
- thionic acid — any of the five acids of sulfur of the type H 2 S n O 6 , where n is from two to six.
- thread count — thread density of a woven fabric
- touch and go — precarious situation
- touch-and-go — risky; precarious: a touch-and-go descent down the mountain.
- trade school — a high school giving instruction chiefly in the skilled trades.
- turbocharged — with additional power from turbine
- undispatched — not dispatched; not delivered or sent out
- unmethodical — characterized by lack of method or disorderliness
- watchdogging — a dog kept to guard property.
- watchstander — (US) A person who is on watch on a ship.
- wattenscheid — an industrial town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia east of Essen
- weather deck — (on a ship) the uppermost continuous deck exposed to the weather.
- well-matched — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- windcheaters — Plural form of windcheater.
- xanthic acid — an unstable organic acid, C 3 H 6 S 2 O, the methyl and ethyl esters of which are colorless, oily liquids with a penetrating odor.
- xanthochroid — of, relating to, or designating races having light-coloured hair and a pale complexion
- zantedeschia — (botany) Any of the genus Zantedeschia of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southern Africa.