12-letter words containing t, h, a
- coenesthesia — general awareness of one's own body
- cohabitating — cohabit.
- cohabitation — the state or condition of living together in a conjugal relationship without being married
- cold cathode — a cathode from which electrons are emitted at ambient temperature, due to a high potential gradient at the surface
- cold-hearted — A cold-hearted person does not feel any affection or sympathy towards other people.
- colour chart — a chart with samples of paint colours
- come to hand — to become available; be received
- cometography — the scientific description and recording of comets
- commonwealth — The Commonwealth is an organization consisting of the United Kingdom and most of the countries that were previously under its rule.
- compost heap — an outdoor pile of compostabale material that degrades into compost
- concert hall — a hall where concerts are performed
- constraineth — Archaic third-person singular form of constrain.
- contact high — a state of altered consciousness caused by inhaling the drugs other people are smoking
- coprophagist — a person who eats excrement
- couch potato — A couch potato is someone who spends most of their time watching television and does not exercise or have any interesting hobbies.
- counter hand — a person who works behind a counter; assistant
- countercharm — an object or action that is capable of destroying a magical charm
- counterearth — (in Pythagorean astronomy) a planet, out of sight from our part of the earth, whose shadow upon the sun and moon, cast by a central fire that is also out of sight, causes the eclipses.
- countermarch — to march or cause to march back along the same route
- countershaft — an intermediate shaft that is driven by, but rotates in the opposite direction to, a main shaft, esp in a gear train
- craftmanship — Alternative form of craftsmanship.
- crash helmet — A crash helmet is a helmet that motorcyclists wear in order to protect their heads if they have an accident.
- craw-thumper — an ostentatiously pious person
- crazy eights — a card game played by two or more persons with a 52-card deck, the object of which is to be the first to get rid of one's hand by successively playing a card of the same suit or denomination as that played by the preceding player, with an eight counting for any desired suit.
- creaturehood — the state of being a creature
- criptography — (spelling) It's spelled "cryptography".
- crosspatches — Plural form of crosspatch.
- cruelhearted — having a cruel heart; lacking kindness, compassion, etc.
- crushability — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- crymotherapy — cryotherapy.
- cryptography — the science or study of analysing and deciphering codes, ciphers, etc; cryptanalysis
- crystal meth — crystal methamphetamine, a concentrated and highly potent form of methamphetamine with dangerous side effects
- curietherapy — a form of radiation therapy using radium
- curtain hook — a hook used to attach a curtain to a curtain rail
- cutlass fish — any compressed, ribbonlike fish of the genus Trichiurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- cyberathlete — a professional player of computer games
- cycloheptane — (organic compound) An alicyclic hydrocarbon, C7H14; a volatile inflammable liquid.
- cytochalasin — any of a group of metabolites derived from fungus that interfere with cell processes
- cytochemical — the branch of cell biology dealing with the detection of cell constituents by means of biochemical analysis and visualization techniques.
- data channel — (communications) A channel (on a BRI or PRI line) used to carry control information, to set up connections on the associated bearer channels. The name wasn't too bad back when users were sending voice (not data) over the bearer channels, but in 1997 it's quite a misnomer.
- data exhaust — unstructured information or data that is a by-product of the online activities of Internet users: Collecting and analyzing data exhaust can provide valuable insight into the purchasing habits of consumers.
- daughtercard — daughterboard
- daughterless — Without a daughter.
- daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
- daughterling — a small daughter
- day hospital — part of a hospital that offers therapeutic services, where patients usually attend all day but go home or to a hospital ward at night
- dead freight — an amount owed by a contractor who charters space in a ship but fails to occupy it fully.
- death camass — any liliaceous plant of the genus Zygadenus (or Zigadenus), of the western US, that is poisonous to livestock, esp sheep
- death duties — Death duties were a tax which had to be paid on the money and property of someone who had died. This tax is now called inheritance tax.
- death notice — a public announcement, e.g. in a newspaper, that someone has died