12-letter words containing t, h, e, r, s, n
- epanorthosis — (rhetoric) A rhetorical device or element in which a speaker or writer retracts a word that has been spoken and substitutes a stronger or more suitable word; often done for emphasis or sarcasm.
- eratosthenes — ?276–?194 bc, Greek mathematician and astronomer, who calculated the circumference of the earth by observing the angle of the sun's rays at different places
- etherealness — The state or quality of being ethereal.
- ethnohistory — The branch of anthropology concerned with the history of peoples and cultures, especially non-Western ones.
- exhortations — Plural form of exhortation.
- extinguisher — Anything that extinguishes something; but especially a fire extinguisher.
- farthingales — Plural form of farthingale.
- farthingless — without a farthing, having no money
- fatherliness — The property of being fatherly.
- featheriness — The state or quality of being feathery.
- firstnighter — a person who often or usually attends the theater, opera, etc., on opening night.
- flight nurse — a nurse in the U.S. Air Force who tends patients being transported by airplane.
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- foreshortens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshorten.
- freethinkers — Plural form of freethinker.
- french sixth — (in musical harmony) an augmented sixth chord having a major third and an augmented fourth between the root and the augmented sixth
- french stick — a long straight notched stick loaf
- french toast — bread dipped in a batter of egg and milk and sautéed until brown, usually served with syrup or sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon.
- french twist — French roll.
- french-style — French-cut.
- furnishments — Plural form of furnishment.
- garnishments — Plural form of garnishment.
- gatecrashing — Present participle of gatecrash.
- german sixth — (in musical harmony) an augmented sixth chord having a major third and a perfect fifth between the root and the augmented sixth
- ghostwritten — Written by a ghostwriter.
- gnatcatchers — Plural form of gnatcatcher.
- grandfathers — Plural form of grandfather.
- grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
- groundsheets — Plural form of groundsheet.
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- handbreadths — Plural form of handbreadth.
- handsbreadth — A small distance.
- harvest moon — the moon at and about the period of fullness that is nearest to the autumnal equinox.
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- hearing test — a test to establish whether someone's hearing is normal or whether they have suffered some degree of hearing loss
- heartfulness — The state or quality of being heartful.
- hearthstones — Plural form of hearthstone.
- heartstrings — (obsolete, anatomy) The tendons once thought to brace the heart. (15th-19th c.).
- heldentenors — Plural form of heldentenor.
- henley-shirt — a short- or long-sleeved pullover sport shirt, usually of cotton, with a round neckband and an often covered neckline placket.
- heptahedrons — Plural form of heptahedron.
- hermeneutics — the science of interpretation, especially of the Scriptures.
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- herstmonceux — a village in S England, in E Sussex north of Eastbourne: 15th-century castle, site of the Royal Observatory, which was transferred from Greenwich between 1948 and 1958, until 1990
- heterogenous — having its source or origin outside the organism; having a foreign origin.
- heterogonous — Botany. of or relating to monoclinous flowers of two or more kinds occurring on different individuals of the same species, the kinds differing in the relative length of stamens and pistils (opposed to homogonous).
- heterogynous — having females of two different kinds, one sexual and the other abortive or neuter, as ants.
- heteronomous — subject to or involving different laws.
- heteronymous — of, relating to, or characteristic of a heteronym.
- heteroousian — a person who believes the Father and the Son to be unlike in substance or essence; an Arian (opposed to Homoousian).