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12-letter words containing t, h, e, s

  • apothecaries — Plural form of apothecary.
  • apotheosized — Simple past tense and past participle of apotheosize.
  • arched truss — a truss having an archlike form but unlike a true arch in that it is free to move horizontally at its base, as in expanding or contracting because of temperature changes.
  • archenterons — Plural form of archenteron.
  • archeologist — archaeology.
  • archibenthos — the ocean bottom between the littoral and abyssal zones: from depths of approximately 200 feet (60 meters) to 3300 feet (1000 meters).
  • archive site — (networking)   (Or "FTP site", "FTP archive") An Internet host where program source, documents, e-mail or news messages are stored for public access via anonymous FTP, Gopher, web or other document distribution system. There may be several archive sites (mirrors) for, e.g., a Usenet newsgroup though one may be recognised as the main one. FTP servers were common on the Internet for about ten years but have been largely replaced by web servers since the invention of the World-Wide Web and its HTTP protocol. Some well-known archive sites included Imperial College, UK, UUNET, USA, GNU archive site. The archie service attempted to index the contents of FTP archives, foreshadowing the indexing of the web by Google and others.
  • aristophanes — ?448–?380 bc, Greek comic dramatist, who satirized leading contemporary figures such as Socrates and Euripides. Eleven of his plays are extant, including The Clouds, The Frogs, The Birds, and Lysistrata
  • arm's-length — lacking intimacy or friendliness, esp when possessing some special connection, such as previous closeness
  • armada chest — an iron or iron-bound strongbox of the 17th or 18th century.
  • arming chest — a chest for holding armor and weapons.
  • arthroscopes — Plural form of arthroscope.
  • arthrospores — an isolated vegetative cell that has passed into a resting state, occurring in bacteria and not regarded as a true spore.
  • arthrotomies — Plural form of arthrotomy.
  • arthur evans — Sir Arthur John, 1851–1941, English archaeologist.
  • artzybasheff — Boris Mikhailovich [bawr-is mi-kahy-luh-vich,, bor-;; Russian buh-ryees myi-khahy-luh-vyich] /ˈbɔr ɪs mɪˈkaɪ lə vɪtʃ,, ˈbɒr-;; Russian bʌˈryis myɪˈxaɪ lə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1899–1965, U.S. illustrator and writer, born in Russia.
  • astonishable — (obsolete) Astonishing.
  • astonishment — Astonishment is a feeling of great surprise.
  • astrochemist — (chemistry, astronomy) A chemist or astronomer whose speciality is astrochemistry.
  • at a stretch — with some difficulty; by making a special effort
  • at the least — at the minimum
  • at the press — being printed
  • at the worst — bad or ill in the highest, greatest, or most extreme degree: the worst person.
  • at this rate — If you say that at this rate something bad or extreme will happen, you mean that it will happen if things continue to develop as they have been doing.
  • at wholesale — in large quantities
  • atheromatous — a sebaceous cyst.
  • atholl brose — a mixture of whisky and honey left to ferment before consumption
  • atmospherics — Atmospherics are elements in something such as a piece of music or a book which create a certain atmosphere.
  • atmospherium — an optical system used to simulate images of atmospheric phenomena, as cloud formations, storms, and day and night, on the inside of a dome.
  • atom smasher — accelerator (sense 3)
  • attache case — An attaché case is a flat case for holding documents.
  • attorneyship — The office or profession of an attorney.
  • autochangers — Plural form of autochanger.
  • autochthones — Alternative spelling of autochthons.
  • autotheistic — Self-worshiping; prideful in the extreme.
  • back stretch — the straight part of a race track opposite the part leading to the finish line.
  • backstitches — Plural form of backstitch.
  • bag snatcher — a thief whose main tactic is to grab women's handbags and run off with them
  • bairnsfather — Bruce. 1888–1959, British cartoonist, born in India: best known for his cartoons of the war in the trenches during World War I
  • baking sheet — A baking sheet is a flat piece of metal on which you bake foods such as biscuits or pies in an oven.
  • bandersnatch — a fictional creature created by Lewis Carroll in his poem Jabberwocky, and appearing also in The Hunting of the Snark and Through the Looking-Glass
  • baraesthesia — the ability to sense pressure
  • bashkirtseff — Marie, original name Marya Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva. 1858–84, Russian painter and diarist who wrote in French, noted esp for her Journal (1887)
  • basic weight — basis weight.
  • basis weight — the weight in pounds of a ream of paper of a basic size, usually 25 × 38 inches (63 × 96 cm) for book stock, 17 × 22 inches (43 × 55 cm) for writing stock, and 20 × 26 inches (50 × 66 cm) for cover stock.
  • basket catch — a catch made with open glove with the palm up and the wrist kept close to and in front of the body.
  • basket chair — a chair made of wickerwork; a wicker chair
  • basque shirt — a knitted pullover shirt having a crew neck, long or short sleeves, and a pattern of horizontal stripes.
  • basset hound — A basset hound is a dog with short strong legs, a long body, and long ears. It is kept as a pet or used for hunting.
  • bastel house — (on the Anglo-Scottish border) a partly fortified house, usually with a vaulted ground floor.
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