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12-letter words containing t, h, u, g, e

  • over-fraught — Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
  • peterborough — a city in Cambridgeshire, in central England.
  • photogravure — any of various processes, based on photography, by which an intaglio engraving is formed on a metal plate, from which ink reproductions are made.
  • preslaughter — of the period before slaughter (of animals)
  • put together — assemble
  • quarterlight — A small, pivoted, normally triangular, car window that acts as a vent.
  • read-through — reading (def 1).
  • rheumatology — the study and treatment of rheumatic diseases.
  • ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
  • rights issue — Finance; offering of new shares to existing holders
  • self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • sell-through — quantity of direct sales made
  • sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • sight unseen — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
  • silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
  • slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
  • slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
  • sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
  • stepdaughter — a daughter of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.
  • store-bought — commercially made rather than homemade.
  • summerweight — (of clothes) suitable in weight for wear in the summer; relatively light
  • superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
  • telautograph — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting, drawings, etc, the movements of an electromagnetically controlled pen at one end being transmitted along a line to a similar pen at the receiving end
  • thaumatogeny — the belief that the origin of life was the result of a miracle
  • the big four — a small powerful group, as of banks, companies, etc, esp the four largest banks in Britain (Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, and NatWest)
  • the struggle — the radical and armed opposition to apartheid, esp by the military wings of the ANC and the PAC
  • the-sea-gull — a play (1896) by Anton Chekhov.
  • therethrough — (of a place) through it; through them
  • thoroughbred — of pure or unmixed breed, stock, or lineage, as a horse or other animal; bred from the purest and best blood.
  • thoroughfare — a road, street, or the like, that leads at each end into another street.
  • thoroughness — executed without negligence or omissions: a thorough search.
  • thought-read — to read someone's mind or psychically know what someone's thoughts are
  • through-line — a theme or idea that runs from the beginning to the end of a book, film, etc
  • thrust stage — a stage that extends beyond the proscenium arch and is usually surrounded on three sides by seats.
  • tough cookie — If you say that someone is a tough cookie, you mean that they have a strong and determined character.
  • tough-minded — characterized by a practical, unsentimental attitude or point of view.
  • turbo-charge — to equip (an internal-combustion engine) with a turbocharger.
  • turbocharged — with additional power from turbine
  • turbocharger — a supercharger that is driven by a turbine turned by exhaust gases from the engine.
  • unaffrighted — to frighten.
  • undelightful — giving great pleasure or delight; highly pleasing: a delightful surprise.
  • underwrought — to do less work on than is necessary or required: to underwork an idea.
  • unfrightened — not frightened
  • unhesitating — without hesitation; not delayed by uncertainty: an unhesitating decision.
  • well-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • westinghouse — George, 1846–1914, U.S. inventor and manufacturer.
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