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11-letter words containing t, h, a

  • antifashion — opposing mainstream fashion
  • antiheroine — a central female character in a novel, play, film, etc, who lacks the traditional heroic virtues
  • antiheroism — (literature) The quality of being an antihero.
  • antihunting — opposed to hunters or hunting practices
  • antihyperon — the antiparticle of the hyperon
  • antikythera — an island in the E Mediterranean, NW of Crete: archaeological site. 8½ sq. mi. (22 sq. km).
  • antipathies — Plural form of antipathy.
  • antipathise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of antipathize.
  • antipathist — a person feeling antipathy
  • antipathize — (intransitive) To feel or show antipathy.
  • antiphonary — a bound collection of antiphons, esp for use in the divine office
  • antiphonies — Plural form of antiphony.
  • antiphrasis — the use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal one, esp for ironic effect
  • antirrhinum — any scrophulariaceous plant of the genus Antirrhinum, esp the snapdragon, which have two-lipped flowers of various colours
  • antisthenes — ?445–365 bc, Greek philosopher, founder of the Cynic school, who taught that the only good was virtue, won by self-control and independence from worldly needs
  • antistrophe — the second of two movements made by a chorus during the performance of a choral ode
  • antitarnish — resistant to or protecting against tarnishing
  • antithalian — disapproving of fun or festivity
  • antitheater — Works of theater that go against theatrical conventions.
  • antitheatre — Alternative form of antitheater.
  • antitheists — Plural form of antitheist.
  • antithesize — To create antitheses.
  • antithyroid — acting against excessive thyroid activity
  • antityphoid — preventing or acting against typhoid
  • antiwhaling — opposed to whale fishing
  • antler moth — a European noctuid moth, Cerapteryx (or Charaeas) graminis, that has white antler-like markings on the forewings and produces larvae that periodically cause great damage to pastures and grasslands
  • aortic arch — one member of a series of paired curved blood vessels that arise in the embryo from the ventral aorta, pass around the pharynx through the branchial arches, and join with the dorsal aorta to form the great vessels of the head and neck.
  • aortography — an X-ray examination of the aorta
  • apathetical — having or showing little or no emotion: apathetic behavior.
  • aphetically — (linguistics) In an aphetic way: through aphesis.
  • aphlogistic — (archaic) flameless.
  • apocynthion — the point at which a spacecraft in lunar orbit is farthest from the moon
  • apophthegms — Plural form of apophthegm.
  • apophyllite — a white, colourless, pink, or green mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate of calcium, potassium, and fluorine in tetragonal crystalline form. It occurs in cracks in volcanic rocks. Formula: KCa4(Si4O10)2(OH1F).8H2O
  • apophysitis — (pathology) Inflammation of an apophysis, a bony tubercle.
  • apostleship — the position or duty of an apostle
  • apostrophes — Plural form of apostrophe.
  • apostrophic — a digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea, as “O Death, where is thy sting?”.
  • apostrophus — a symbol resembling a reversed letter C used in Roman numerals to denote large numbers
  • apotheosise — Alternative spelling of apotheosize.
  • apotheosize — to deify
  • apparatchik — An apparatchik is someone who works for a government or a political party and who obeys orders.
  • appeachment — an accusation or criminal charge
  • approacheth — Archaic third-person singular form of approach.
  • aqualeather — a very strong type of leather made from the skin of the Nile perch (Lates niloticus)
  • archaeocyte — (in sponges) a type of amoebocyte capable of developing into other types of cells, especially reproductive cells.
  • archenteric — Of or pertaining to an archenteron.
  • archenteron — the cavity within an embryo at the gastrula stage of development that eventually becomes the digestive cavity
  • archeometry — the branch of archaeology that deals with the dating of archaeological specimens through specific techniques, as radiocarbon dating and amino-acid dating.
  • archicortex — (anatomy) Part of the allocortex, specifically three layered hippocampal cortexes necessary for hippocampus formation.
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