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12-letter words containing t, h, e, d, i

  • the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
  • the mainland — a particular landmass as viewed from a nearby island with which it has close links, such as Great Britain as viewed from Northern Ireland or continental Australia as viewed from Tasmania
  • the midlands — the central counties of England, including Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, the former West Midlands metropolitan county, and Worcestershire: characterized by manufacturing industries
  • the nearside — the side of a vehicle normally nearer the kerb (in Britain, the left side)
  • the occident — the Occident. the West; the countries of Europe and America. Western Hemisphere.
  • the old bill — policemen collectively or in general
  • the-firebird — a ballet (1910) with music by Stravinsky.
  • theodosius i — ("the Great") a.d. 346?–395, Roman emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 379–395.
  • thermidorian — a member of the French moderate group who participated in the downfall of Robespierre and his followers on the 9th Thermidor (July 27th), 1794.
  • thick-lipped — having thick lips
  • thick-witted — lacking intelligence; thickheaded; dull; stupid.
  • thin-skinned — having a thin skin.
  • thioaldehyde — any of a class of compounds formed by the action of hydrogen sulfide on aldehydes, and regarded as aldehydes with the oxygen replaced by sulfur.
  • thioridazine — a phenothiazine, C 21 H 26 N 2 S 2 , used as an antipsychotic chiefly in the treatment of acute psychoses and schizophrenia.
  • third estate — the third of the three estates or political orders: the commons in France or England. Compare estate (def 5).
  • third eyelid — nictitating membrane.
  • third finger — the finger next to the little finger; ring finger.
  • third gender — a gender classification in societies that recognize a gender other than male or female.
  • third market — a market established by the London Stock Exchange in 1987 to trade in shares in companies required to provide less detailed information than that required by the main market or the unlisted securities market
  • third person — the grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to anyone or anything other than the speaker or the one (third person singular) or ones (third person plural) being addressed.
  • third sector — the segment of a nation's economy that is made up of neither public nor business concerns, as nonprofit health or educational institutions.
  • third stream — a style of music that uses features of both jazz and classical music in an attempt to develop a new and distinctive musical idiom.
  • third-degree — to subject to the third degree.
  • third-grader — a pupil in their third year of education, esp in the US and Canada
  • this side of — If you say that something will not happen this side of a date or event, you mean that it will not happen before that date or event.
  • thitherwards — in that direction
  • three-gaited — noting a horse trained to walk, trot, and canter, as for pleasure riding and showing.
  • thunderstick — bull-roarer.
  • tight-fisted — parsimonious; stingy; tight.
  • tight-lipped — speaking very little; taciturn; close-mouthed.
  • time-honored — revered or respected because of antiquity and long continuance: a time-honored custom.
  • title-holder — The title-holder is the person who most recently won a sports competition that is held regularly.
  • tough-minded — characterized by a practical, unsentimental attitude or point of view.
  • transit shed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.
  • triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
  • trondhjemite — a coarse-grained igneous rock composed of quartz, plagioclase feldspar, and a small amount of biotite.
  • twenty-third — next after the twenty-second; being the ordinal number for 23.
  • unaffrighted — to frighten.
  • unauthorized — lacking permission; unsanctioned: unauthorized access.
  • unchristened — not christened
  • undelightful — giving great pleasure or delight; highly pleasing: a delightful surprise.
  • undershirted — wearing an undershirt
  • undispatched — not dispatched; not delivered or sent out
  • unfrightened — not frightened
  • unhabituated — to accustom (a person, the mind, etc.), as to a particular situation: Wealth habituated him to luxury.
  • unmethodical — characterized by lack of method or disorderliness
  • unmethodized — not organized systematically, according to a method
  • unprohibited — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
  • water shield — Also called water target. an aquatic plant, Brasenia schreberi, of the water lily family, having purple flowers, floating, elliptic leaves, and a jellylike coating on the underwater stems and roots.
  • wattenscheid — an industrial town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia east of Essen
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