12-letter words containing t, h, e, s
- clotheshorse — a frame on which to hang laundry for drying or airing
- clotheslined — Simple past tense and past participle of clothesline.
- clotheslines — Plural form of clothesline.
- clothespress — a closet, wardrobe, or chest in which to keep clothes
- coding sheet — a form on which a program is written
- coenesthesia — general awareness of one's own body
- cohesibility — the nature of being cohesible
- compost heap — an outdoor pile of compostabale material that degrades into compost
- constraineth — Archaic third-person singular form of constrain.
- cookie sheet — A cookie sheet is a flat piece of metal on which you bake foods such as cookies in an oven.
- coppersmiths — Plural form of coppersmith.
- copyrighters — Plural form of copyrighter.
- coquettishly — (of a woman) characteristically flirtatious, especially in a teasing, lighthearted manner.
- cosmochemist — a student of cosmochemistry
- costophrenic — Synonym of phrenicocostal.
- countershaft — an intermediate shaft that is driven by, but rotates in the opposite direction to, a main shaft, esp in a gear train
- crash helmet — A crash helmet is a helmet that motorcyclists wear in order to protect their heads if they have an accident.
- 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.
- crosspatches — Plural form of crosspatch.
- crystal meth — crystal methamphetamine, a concentrated and highly potent form of methamphetamine with dangerous side effects
- custom house — a government office, esp at a port, where customs are collected and ships cleared for entry
- customhouses — Plural form of customhouse.
- customs shed — a large building in which customs officers carry out customs inspections
- 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.
- daughterless — Without a daughter.
- 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 spiral — a period of continuous deterioration that leads ultimately to catastrophic failure or destruction
- death throes — The death throes of something are its final stages, just before it fails completely or ends.
- 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.
- deep-chested — having a broad, strong-looking upper body
- demolishment — to destroy or ruin (a building or other structure), especially on purpose; tear down; raze.
- detachedness — the quality of being detached or separated
- dichotomised — Simple past tense and past participle of dichotomise.
- dilettantish — a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.
- diminishment — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
- diphosphates — a pyrophosphate.
- diphtheroids — resembling diphtheria, especially in the formation of a false membrane in the throat.
- directorship — a person or thing that directs.
- disauthorize — to take authority away from (a person or organization)
- disburthened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburthen.
- disc shutter — a shutter in a movie camera or projector that covers the gap between separate frames
- discotheques — Plural form of discotheque.
- 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.