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12-letter words containing t, h, a, g

  • quitch grass — any of various grasses, especially Agropyron repens, known chiefly as troublesome weeds and characterized by creeping rootstocks that spread rapidly.
  • racing yacht — a yacht used in sailing races
  • ranjit singh — ("Lion of the Punjab") 1780–1839, Indian maharaja: founder of the Sikh kingdom of Punjab.
  • rat-catching — the job of destroying or driving away vermin, esp rats
  • read-through — reading (def 1).
  • red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
  • rephotograph — to photograph again
  • rheumatology — the study and treatment of rheumatic diseases.
  • riding habit — habit1 (def 11).
  • right of way — a common law or statutory right granted to a vehicle, as an airplane or boat, to proceed ahead of another.
  • right-angled — A right-angled triangle has one angle that is a right angle.
  • right-handed — having the right hand or arm more serviceable than the left; using the right hand by preference: a right-handed painter.
  • right-hander — a person who is right-handed, especially a baseball pitcher who throws with the right hand.
  • rush matting — a floor covering made from rushes (plants of the genus Juncus)
  • sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
  • sandy blight — trachoma.
  • scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
  • scatophagous — feeding on dung or excrement
  • scattergraph — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
  • scintigraphy — the process of producing a scintigram.
  • scotch grain — a coarse, pebble-grained finish given to heavy leather, esp. for men's shoes
  • scratchingly — in a scratching manner, with a scratching action
  • scutch grass — Bermuda grass.
  • see daylight — the light of day: At the end of the tunnel they could see daylight.
  • self-heating — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
  • sergeantfish — the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
  • set straight — to give the correct facts to; inform properly
  • sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • shooting war — open conflict between hostile nations involving direct military engagements.
  • short-acting — (of a drug) quickly effective, but requiring regularly repeated doses for long-term treatment, being rapidly absorbed, distributed in the body, and excreted
  • short-change — to give less than the correct change to.
  • shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
  • shot on goal — a shot that enters the goal or would have entered the goal if it had not been blocked by the goalkeeper or another defensive player.
  • sixth-grader — a pupil in their sixth US school year after kindergarten, who is usually around 11 or 12 years old
  • slant height — (of a right circular cone) the distance from the vertex to any point on the circumference of the base.
  • slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
  • slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
  • smart growth — People such as architects and environmentalists use smart growth to refer to the construction of new buildings and roads within a town or city so that they are close to people's workplaces and mass transit systems and so that open spaces are not built on.
  • snaggletooth — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
  • snapshotting — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
  • sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • south-facing — facing towards the south
  • space flight — journey into outer space
  • spatiography — the study of the characteristics of space beyond the atmosphere, including the mapping of the movements of celestial bodies and the recording of electrical, magnetic, and gravitational effects, especially those likely to affect missiles and spacecraft.
  • spectrograph — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • sphragistics — the scientific study of seals or signet rings.
  • spring catch — a catch for an interior or cabinet door that has a bolt operated by a spring.
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