11-letter words containing t, h, a
- air hostess — An air hostess is a woman whose job is to look after the passengers in an aircraft.
- air shuttle — a shuttle service operated by aircraft, usually covering short routes with frequent flights
- air-breathe — (of an engine, aircraft, missile, etc.) to take in air from the atmosphere to oxidize the fuel for combustion.
- album chart — a regular listing of bestselling record albums
- alchemistic — a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
- alethiology — the branch of logic dealing with truth and error.
- alexithymia — an inability to recognize, understand, and describe emotions
- algophilist — Person who is subject to algophilia; person who enjoys pain and gets sexual pleasure from it.
- algorithmic — a set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps, as for finding the greatest common divisor.
- alkanethiol — any compound containing an alkyl group joined to a mercapto group, as methyl mercaptan or methanethiol, CH 3 SH.
- all the way — You use all the way to emphasize how long a distance is.
- all up with — over; finished
- all-nighter — an entertainment, such as a pop concert or film screening, that lasts all night
- all-weather — All-weather sports take place on an artificial surface instead of on grass.
- allelopathy — the inhibitory effect of one living plant upon another by the release of toxic substances
- alley light — a searchlight mounted on a public-safety vehicle or other motor vehicle for sideways lighting.
- aloha shirt — Hawaiian shirt
- aloha state — Hawaii (used as a nickname).
- alpha stock — any of the most active securities on the Stock Exchange of which there are between 100 and 200; at least ten market makers must continuously display the prices of an alpha stock and all transactions in them must be published immediately
- alpha tauri — Aldebaran
- alphabetise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of alphabetize.
- alphabetize — to arrange in conventional alphabetical order
- altar cloth — the cloth used for covering an altar: often applied also to the frontal
- altazimuths — Plural form of altazimuth.
- alto-phobia — an abnormal fear of heights; acrophobia.
- amaranthine — of a dark reddish-purple colour
- amateurship — the nature of an amateur
- amethocaine — The drug tetracaine.
- amethystine — Like amethyst, especially when referring to colour.
- amphetamine — Amphetamine is a drug which increases people's energy, makes them excited, and reduces their desire for food.
- amphibiotic — having an aquatic larval form and a terrestrial adult form, as amphibians
- amphibolite — a metamorphic rock consisting mainly of amphibole and plagioclase
- amphictyony — (in ancient Greece) a religious association of states for the maintenance of temples and the cults connected with them
- amphipathic — of or relating to a molecule that possesses both hydrophobic and hydrophilic elements, such as are found in detergents, or phospholipids of biological membranes
- amphistylar — (esp of a classical temple) having a set of columns at both ends or at both sides
- amphithemis — a son of Apollo and Acacallis.
- amphithuron — amphithyra (def 1).
- amphithyron — amphithyra (def 1).
- amphitricha — bacteria that have flagella at both ends
- ampitheater — Misspelling of amphitheater.
- ampitheatre — Misspelling of amphitheatre.
- amyotrophic — (medicine) Characterized by atrophy of the muscles.
- anacanthous — having no spines or thorns.
- anachronist — A person who has anachronistic views or habits.
- anacoloutha — Plural form of anacolouthon.
- anacoluthia — lack of grammatical sequence, esp within a single sentence
- anacoluthic — Of, pertaining to, being, or resembling an anacoluthon.
- anacoluthon — a construction that involves the change from one grammatical sequence to another within a single sentence; an example of anacoluthia
- anaesthesia — Anaesthesia is the use of anaesthetics in medicine and surgery.
- anaesthetic — Anaesthetic is a substance that doctors use to stop you feeling pain during an operation, either in the whole of your body when you are unconscious, or in a part of your body when you are awake.