12-letter words containing t, h, o
- cytochalasin — any of a group of metabolites derived from fungus that interfere with cell processes
- cytochemical — the branch of cell biology dealing with the detection of cell constituents by means of biochemical analysis and visualization techniques.
- day hospital — part of a hospital that offers therapeutic services, where patients usually attend all day but go home or to a hospital ward at night
- death notice — a public announcement, e.g. in a newspaper, that someone has died
- death throes — The death throes of something are its final stages, just before it fails completely or ends.
- dechlorinate — to remove chlorine from (a substance)
- dehypnotized — Simple past tense and past participle of dehypnotize.
- deinotherium — any member of the genus Deinotherium, consisting of mammals resembling elephants that existed during the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene epochs
- demolishment — to destroy or ruin (a building or other structure), especially on purpose; tear down; raze.
- dephlegmator — an apparatus used for dephlegmation
- dermatophyte — any parasitic fungus that affects the skin
- detectaphone — a device for listening secretly to others' telephone conversations
- detectophone — a secret listening device, the predecessor of the modern 'bug'
- dethronement — to remove from a throne; depose.
- 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
- diazomethane — a yellow odourless explosive gas, used as a methylating agent. Formula: CH2:N:N
- dichotically — in a dichotic manner
- dichotomised — Simple past tense and past participle of dichotomise.
- dichotomized — Simple past tense and past participle of dichotomize Having been divided into dichotomous parts.
- dichromatism — the quality or condition of being dichromatic
- dictatorship — Dictatorship is government by a dictator.
- diphosphates — a pyrophosphate.
- diphtheroids — resembling diphtheria, especially in the formation of a false membrane in the throat.
- diphthongize — to change into or pronounce as a diphthong.
- directorship — a person or thing that directs.
- disauthorize — to take authority away from (a person or organization)
- disco lights — coloured lights that flash on and off in time to the music at a disco etc
- discotheques — Plural form of discotheque.
- dishonesties — Plural form of dishonesty.
- disinhibitor — Something that causes a reduction in one's inhibitions; that makes people, or animals act more impulsively.
- dispatch box — a case or box used to hold valuables or documents, esp official state documents
- do away with — from this or that place; off: to go away.
- do honour to — to pay homage to
- do the lolly — to lose one's temper
- do the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- 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.
- double cloth — a cloth used in overcoating, blankets, brocade, etc., made by interweaving two physically discrete fabrics at various points in the pattern by bringing warp and fill yarns from each through the other to be worked on the opposite face of the compound fabric.
- double dutch — a form of the game of jump rope in which two persons, holding the respective ends of two long jump ropes, swing them in a synchronized fashion, usually directed inward so the ropes are going in opposite directions, for one or two others to jump over.
- double hitch — a Blackwall hitch with an extra upper loop passed around the hook.
- double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
- double-width — twice the usual width: double-wide mobile homes consisting of two sections bolted together.
- doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
- 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.
- downshifting — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a lower gear.
- dragon light — a herbal remedy for impotence