10-letter words containing t, h, a, l
- arctophile — a person who collects teddy bears or is fond of them
- arctophily — the practice of collecting teddy bears
- art school — tertiary level college for students of art
- arthralgia — pain in a joint
- arthralgic — Of, pertaining to, or suffering from arthralgia.
- arthrodial — a joint, as in the carpal articulations, in which the surfaces glide over each other in movement.
- asphaltene — any of the constituents of a bitumen, as asphalt, that are insoluble in pentane, hexane, or naphthalene.
- asphalting — any of various dark-colored, solid, bituminous substances, native in various areas of the earth and composed mainly of hydrocarbon mixtures.
- asphaltite — any of various naturally occurring hydrocarbons that resemble asphalt but have a higher melting point
- athel tree — an evergreen tree or large shrub, Tamarix aphylla, native to desert regions of western Asia and northern Africa, having small, pink flowers in terminal clusters, widely planted as a windbreak and ornamental.
- athleisure — the wearing of sports clothes as leisurewear
- attachable — to fasten or affix; join; connect: to attach a photograph to an application with a staple.
- authorless — having no author; anonymous
- autophilia — Self love, especially sexual attraction to the self.
- ayatollahs — Plural form of ayatollah.
- back light — light falling on a photographic or television subject from the rear
- back-cloth — backdrop (def 1).
- backcloths — Plural form of backcloth.
- backlights — Plural form of backlight.
- bark cloth — a papery fabric made from the fibrous inner bark of various trees, esp of the moraceous genus Ficus and the leguminous genus Brachystegia
- bat chayil — (in some congregations) a ceremony of confirmation for a girl of at least Bat Mitzvah age
- batch file — a computer file with sequential commands to be executed when the file is read
- bath salts — You dissolve bath salts in bath water to make the water smell pleasant and as a water softener.
- bath towel — A bath towel is a very large towel used for drying your body after you have had a bath.
- batholiths — Plural form of batholith.
- battleship — A battleship is a very large, heavily armed warship.
- beetlehead — a person of low intelligence
- bequeathal — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
- betrothals — the act or state of being betrothed; engagement.
- bible oath — an oath sworn with one's hand on the Christian Bible
- bibliotaph — a person who caches or hoards books.
- billethead — a carved ornamental scroll or volute terminating a stem or cutwater at its upper end in place of a figurehead.
- bioethanol — a biofuel based on alcohol which may be combined with petrol for use in vehicles
- birth plan — a statement by a mother telling doctors and midwives how she would like her labour to proceed
- birthplace — Your birthplace is the place where you were born.
- bisulphate — a salt or ester of sulphuric acid containing the monovalent group -HSO4 or the ion HSO4–
- bitch-slap — to strike (someone) with one's open hand
- black heat — heat emitted by an electric element made from low-resistance thick wire that does not glow red
- blackheart — an abnormal darkening of the woody stems of some plants, thought to be caused by extreme cold
- blackheath — a residential district in SE London, mainly in the boroughs of Lewisham and Greenwich: a large heath formerly notorious for highwaymen
- blackpatch — a disease of red and white clover, caused by an unidentified fungus and characterized by brown or blackish lesions on the plant.
- blackshirt — (in Europe) a member of a fascist organization, esp a member of the Italian Fascist party before and during World War II
- blacksmith — A blacksmith is a person whose job is making things by hand out of metal that has been heated to a high temperature.
- blackthorn — a thorny Eurasian rosaceous shrub, Prunus spinosa, with black twigs, white flowers, and small sour plumlike fruits
- blathering — foolish, voluble talk: His speech was full of the most amazing blather.
- blood bath — a killing of many people; massacre
- blood heat — Blood heat is a temperature of 37°C, which is about the same as the normal temperature of the human body.
- bluehearts — a hairy, purple-flowered perennial plant (Buchnera americana) of the figwort family, found in the S U.S.
- bluethroat — a small brownish European songbird, Cyanosylvia svecica, related to the thrushes, the male of which has a blue throat: family Muscicapidae
- bobble hat — A bobble hat is a woollen hat with a bobble on it.