12-letter words containing t, h, a
- death rattle — If you say that one thing is the death rattle of another, you mean that the first thing is a sign that very soon the second thing will come to an end.
- death spiral — a period of continuous deterioration that leads ultimately to catastrophic failure or destruction
- death threat — a threat to kill someone
- death throes — The death throes of something are its final stages, just before it fails completely or ends.
- death valley — a desert valley in E California and W Nevada: the lowest, hottest, and driest area of the US. Lowest point: 86 m (282 ft) below sea level. Area: about 3885 sq km (1500 sq miles)
- death's-head — a human skull or a representation of one
- deathmatches — Plural form of deathmatch.
- deathwatches — Plural form of deathwatch.
- decahydrates — Plural form of decahydrate.
- dechlorinate — to remove chlorine from (a substance)
- deep therapy — radiotherapy with very penetrating short-wave radiation
- delta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex during deep sleep, occurring at a frequency of 1 to 4 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
- dephlegmator — an apparatus used for dephlegmation
- depth charge — A depth charge is a type of bomb which explodes under water and which is used especially to destroy enemy submarines.
- dermatophyte — any parasitic fungus that affects the skin
- detachedness — the quality of being detached or separated
- detectaphone — a device for listening secretly to others' telephone conversations
- deuteropathy — any abnormality that is secondary to another pathological condition.
- diarthrodial — a form of articulation that permits maximal motion, as the knee joint.
- diastrophism — the process of movement and deformation of the earth's crust that gives rise to large-scale features such as continents, ocean basins, and mountains
- diathermancy — the property of transmitting infrared radiation
- diazomethane — a yellow odourless explosive gas, used as a methylating agent. Formula: CH2:N:N
- dibranchiate — of, relating to, or belonging to the Dibranchiata, a group or former order of cephalopod molluscs, including the octopuses, squids, and cuttlefish, having two gills
- dichotically — in a dichotic manner
- dichromatism — the quality or condition of being dichromatic
- dictatorship — Dictatorship is government by a dictator.
- diethylamide — (organic compound) The derivative of a compound formed by adding an amide group with two ethyl substituents, N(C2H5)2.
- diethylamine — (organic compound) The secondary amine (CH3CH2)2NH.
- dilettantish — a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.
- dip the flag — to salute by lowering a flag briefly
- diphosphates — a pyrophosphate.
- disauthorize — to take authority away from (a person or organization)
- disenchanted — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- disenchanter — One who disenchants.
- disestablish — to deprive of the character of being established; cancel; abolish.
- dish antenna — an open, relatively shallow container of pottery, glass, metal, wood, etc., used for various purposes, especially for holding or serving food.
- dishabituate — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
- disheartened — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- dispatch box — a case or box used to hold valuables or documents, esp official state documents
- dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
- distraughtly — distracted; deeply agitated.
- ditheistical — of or relating to ditheism, ditheistic
- ditheletical — relating to ditheletism, the doctrine that Christ had two wills
- dithyrambist — a writer or performer of dithyrambs
- do away with — from this or that place; off: to go away.
- donald knuth — (person) Donald E. Knuth, the author of the TeX document formatting system, Metafont its font-design program and the 3 volume computer science "Bible" of algorithms, "The Art of Computer Programming". Knuth suggested the name "Backus-Naur Form" and was also involved in the SOL simulation language, and developed the WEB literate programming system. See also MIX, Turingol.
- doomwatching — the act of watching the environment to warn of and prevent harm
- dorothea dix — Dorothea Lynde [lind] /lɪnd/ (Show IPA), (Dorothy) 1802–87, U.S. educator and social reformer.
- down-at-heel — of a shabby, run-down appearance; seedy: He is rapidly becoming a down-at-heel drifter and a drunk.
- down-hearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.