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12-letter words containing t, e, p, h

  • tax loophole — a legal way of avoiding the payment of tax, or part of a tax bill, due to a gap in tax legislation
  • te rauparaha — ?1768–1849, Māori warrior chief, head of the Ngāti Toa tribe and signatory to the Treaty of Waitangi; noted for his cunning and his prowess in battle, he is also credited with composing "Ka Mate", the All Blacks' usual pre-match haka
  • team up with — join forces with
  • 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.
  • technography — the description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
  • technophilia — a person who loves or is enthusiastic about advanced technology.
  • technophobia — abnormal fear of or anxiety about the effects of advanced 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
  • telegraphese — a style of writing or speaking distinguished by the omissions, abbreviations, and combinations that are characteristic of telegrams, as in “ expect arrive six evening. ”.
  • telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
  • téléphérique — a cableway
  • teleshopping — electronic shopping via videotex or other interactive information service.
  • tenths-place — next after ninth; being the ordinal number for ten.
  • teratophobia — fear of giving birth to a monster
  • terephthalic — relating to, designating, or derived from terephthalic acid or its derivatives
  • tetramorphic — (in art) of or related to a composite representation of the four evangelists' symbols
  • the bosporus — a strait between European and Asian Turkey, linking the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
  • the cenotaph — the monument in Whitehall, London, honouring the dead of both World Wars: designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens: erected in 1920
  • the departed — the dead person or dead persons
  • the dustheap — obscurity or oblivion
  • the hoppings — an annual fair in Newcastle
  • the olympics — the Olympic Games
  • the pandects — a digest of Roman civil law in fifty books, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the 6th cent. a.d.; the Digest
  • the passions — feeling, as opposed to reason
  • the pentagon — a five-sided building in Arlington, Va., in which the main offices of the U.S. Department of Defense are located; hence, the U.S. military establishment
  • the pictures — a cinema or film show
  • the pliocene — the Pliocene epoch or rock series
  • 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 preacher — the author of Ecclesiastes or the book of Ecclesiastes
  • the prophets — one of the three major divisions of the Jewish Holy Scriptures, following the Pentateuch and preceding the Hagiographa
  • the psalmist — King David, to whom all or certain of the Psalms are variously attributed
  • the scorpion — the constellation Scorpio, the eighth sign of the zodiac
  • the wop-wops — the backblocks; the back of beyond
  • the-persians — a tragedy (472 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • 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.
  • theatrophone — a late 19th century service that allowed subscribers to listen to concerts or plays through the telephone
  • theophrastus — 372?–287 b.c, Greek philosopher.
  • theophylline — a white, crystalline, poisonous alkaloid, C 7 H 8 N 4 O 2 , an isomer of theobromine, extracted from tea leaves or produced synthetically: used to relieve bronchial spasms, in the treatment of certain heart conditions, and as a diuretic.
  • therapeutics — a therapeutic substance.
  • therapeutist — a person trained in the use of physical methods, as exercises, heat treatments, etc., in treating or rehabilitating the sick or wounded or helping patients overcome physical defects.
  • 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.
  • thermography — a technique for imitating an embossed appearance, as on business cards, stationery, or the like, by dusting printed areas with a powder that adheres only to the wet ink, and fusing the ink and powder to the paper by heat.
  • thermophilic — growing best in a warm environment.
  • 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.
  • thermotropic — oriented growth of an organism in response to heat.
  • thick-lipped — having thick lips
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