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

  • steeplechase — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
  • stenothermal — (of animals or plants) able to exist only within a narrow range of temperature
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • storm-lashed — badly affected by storms
  • stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
  • stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
  • strophiolate — having a strophiole
  • stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
  • sulphonation — the action or process of converting or being converted into a sulphonate
  • sulphur bath — a curative bath in which the water used has sulphates dissolved in it, especially one in which the water comes from a natural hot spring
  • superathlete — a highly accomplished athlete, an exceptional athlete
  • swash letter — an ornamental italic capital letter having a flourish extending beyond the body of the type.
  • switch plate — a plate, usually of metal, ceramic, or plastic, covering a switch so that the knob or toggle protrudes.
  • synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
  • table d'hote — a meal of preselected courses served at a fixed time and price to the guests at a hotel or restaurant.
  • tablet chair — a chair with one arm extending and expanding into a writing surface.
  • tactile hair — any highly sensitive hair of an animal, as the whiskers of a cat or hairs on a hedgehog's snout.
  • tail feather — one of the feathers making up a bird's tail
  • take hold of — grasp, seize sth
  • talk through — guide through: a procedure, etc.
  • talking head — Television Slang. a closeup picture of a person who is talking, especially as a participant in a talk show.
  • talking shop — If you say that a conference or a committee is just a talking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.
  • tallahatchie — a river in N Mississippi, flowing SW and joining the Yalobusha River to form the Yazoo River. 230 miles (371 km) long.
  • talmud torah — (in Europe) a community-supported Jewish elementary school for teaching children Hebrew, Bible, and the fundamentals of Judaism.
  • tammany hall — a Democratic political organization in New York City, founded in 1789 as a fraternal benevolent society (Tammany Society) and associated especially in the late 1800s and early 1900s with corruption and abuse of power.
  • tax loophole — a legal way of avoiding the payment of tax, or part of a tax bill, due to a gap in tax legislation
  • teachability — capable of being instructed, as a person; docile.
  • technicality — technical character.
  • technicalize — to make technical
  • technobabble — incomprehensible technical language or jargon.
  • technophilia — a person who loves or is enthusiastic about advanced technology.
  • telaesthesia — telesthesia.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • telolecithal — having an accumulation of yolk near the vegetal pole, as the large-yolked eggs or ova of reptiles and birds.
  • tenochtitlan — the capital of the Aztec empire: founded in 1325; destroyed by the Spaniards in 1521; now the site of Mexico City.
  • tenths-place — next after ninth; being the ordinal number for ten.
  • terephthalic — relating to, designating, or derived from terephthalic acid or its derivatives
  • thalassaemia — a hereditary disease, common in many parts of the world, resulting from defects in the synthesis of the red blood pigment haemoglobin
  • thalassaemic — a person who has the blood disorder thalassaemia
  • thalassocrat — a nation that has dominion over the seas.
  • thank kindly — to thank heartily
  • thankfulness — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
  • thanks a lot — thank you
  • that will do — If you say that will do to a child, you are telling them to stop behaving in the way that they are.
  • thaumatology — the study or description of miracles.
  • the absolute — ultimate reality regarded as uncaused, unmodified, unified and complete, timeless, etc.
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