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12-letter words containing t, e, r, h, u

  • state church — established church.
  • stepdaughter — a daughter of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.
  • store-bought — commercially made rather than homemade.
  • storey house — (in W Africa) a house having more than one storey
  • stouthearted — brave and resolute; dauntless.
  • subthreshold — (of a stimulus) too weak to produce a response.
  • summerweight — (of clothes) suitable in weight for wear in the summer; relatively light
  • super-sleuth — a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.
  • super-smooth — dead-smooth.
  • superathlete — a highly accomplished athlete, an exceptional athlete
  • superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
  • support hose — elastic stockings worn to reduce pressure on the veins of the leg, esp for people with varicose veins
  • synantherous — with united anthers
  • 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
  • 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.
  • technicolour — brightly, showily, or garishly coloured; vividly noticeable
  • 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
  • téléphérique — a cableway
  • 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.
  • 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 creature — whiskey or other intoxicating liquor
  • the crucible — a Sheffield theatre, venue of the annual world professional snooker championship
  • the hundreds — the numbers 100 to 109
  • the jurassic — the Jurassic period or rock system
  • the pictures — a cinema or film show
  • the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
  • the shudders — a feeling of horror, repugnance, etc.
  • the silurian — the Silurian period or rock system
  • the struggle — the radical and armed opposition to apartheid, esp by the military wings of the ANC and the PAC
  • the troubles — political unrest or public disturbances
  • theophrastus — 372?–287 b.c, Greek philosopher.
  • 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.
  • therethrough — (of a place) through it; through them
  • thermal unit — a unit of heat energy or of the equivalent of heat energy in work.
  • 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.
  • thoroughbred — of pure or unmixed breed, stock, or lineage, as a horse or other animal; bred from the purest and best blood.
  • thoroughfare — a road, street, or the like, that leads at each end into another street.
  • thoroughness — executed without negligence or omissions: a thorough search.
  • thought-read — to read someone's mind or psychically know what someone's thoughts are
  • thread count — thread density of a woven fabric
  • three-colour — of, relating to, or comprising a colour print or a photomechanical process in which a picture is reproduced by superimposing three prints from half-tone plates in inks corresponding to the three primary colours
  • three-square — having an equilateral triangular cross section, as certain files.
  • three-suiter — a man's suitcase or garment bag of a size to hold three suits.
  • three-valued — of or relating to propositions having a value other than truth or falsity.
  • through-line — a theme or idea that runs from the beginning to the end of a book, film, etc
  • thrust stage — a stage that extends beyond the proscenium arch and is usually surrounded on three sides by seats.
  • thumb-sucker — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
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