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12-letter words containing t, h, u, n

  • chateau wine — a wine produced from any of certain vineyards in the Bordeaux region of France
  • chauvinistic — If you describe someone as chauvinistic, you believe that they think their own country is more important and morally better than any other.
  • cheluviation — the leaching of chelates through soil
  • chestnut oak — any of several North American oaks, as Quercus prinus, having serrate or dentate leaves resembling those of the chestnut.
  • chincoteague — a town on a small island in a lagoon (Chincoteague Bay) in E Virginia: annual wild pony roundup.
  • chinese tour — a tour in which visitors are shown only what those in charge want them to see.
  • chinhuangtao — a seaport in NE Hebei province, in NE China, on the Bohai.
  • chota nagpur — a plateau in E India, mainly in Jharkhand state since 2000: forested, with rich mineral resources and much heavy industry; produces chiefly lac (world's leading supplier), coal (half India's total output), and mica
  • chukot range — mountain range in NE Siberia: highest peak, c. 7,500 ft (2,286 m)
  • churchianity — loyalty to the church rather than Christianity
  • cinematheque — a small intimate cinema
  • column shift — A column shift is a gearshift lever mounted on the steering column.
  • common touch — the ability to communicate with, appeal to, or inspire ordinary people.
  • cotton mouth — a venomous snake, Agkistrodon (Ancistrodon) piscivorus, of swamps in southeastern U.S., that grows to about 4 feet (1.2 meters).
  • cottonmouths — Plural form of cottonmouth.
  • counter hand — a person who works behind a counter; assistant
  • countercharm — an object or action that is capable of destroying a magical charm
  • countercheck — a check or restraint, esp one that acts in opposition to another
  • counterearth — (in Pythagorean astronomy) a planet, out of sight from our part of the earth, whose shadow upon the sun and moon, cast by a central fire that is also out of sight, causes the eclipses.
  • counterlight — a light opposite something, such as a painting, that negatively affects the appearance of that object
  • countermarch — to march or cause to march back along the same route
  • counterpunch — to punch an attacking opponent; return an attack
  • countershaft — an intermediate shaft that is driven by, but rotates in the opposite direction to, a main shaft, esp in a gear train
  • counterweigh — counterbalance
  • curtain hook — a hook used to attach a curtain to a curtain rail
  • daughterling — a small daughter
  • deinotherium — any member of the genus Deinotherium, consisting of mammals resembling elephants that existed during the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene epochs
  • disburthened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburthen.
  • do honour to — to pay homage to
  • 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.
  • double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
  • doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
  • dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
  • droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
  • duncan smith — (George) Iain. born 1954, British politician; leader of the Conservative Party (2001–03); secretary of state for work and pensions (2010–2016)
  • dutch borneo — the former name of the southern and larger part of the island of Borneo: now part of Indonesia.
  • dutch guiana — former name of Suriname.
  • earth return — the return path for an electrical circuit made by connections to earth at each end
  • earth tongue — any of a group of fungi of the phylum Ascomycota, characterized by a tongue-shaped fruiting body, found on decaying logs and damp soil.
  • eating house — a restaurant or other place where one can eat
  • elephant gun — hunting rifle
  • enthusiastic — Having or showing intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.
  • euphoniumist — Someone who plays the euphonium.
  • euthanasiast — a person who advocates euthanasia
  • exhaustingly — In an exhausting manner.
  • extinguished — Cause (a fire or light) to cease to burn or shine.
  • extinguisher — Anything that extinguishes something; but especially a fire extinguisher.
  • extinguishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of extinguish.
  • faithfulness — strict or thorough in the performance of duty: a faithful worker.
  • feuchtwanger — Lion [lee-awn] /ˈli ɔn/ (Show IPA), 1884–1958, German novelist and dramatist.
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