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

  • squash court — an enclosed court used in the game of squash
  • squat thrust — an exercise in which the hands are kept on the floor with the arms held straight while the legs are straightened out behind and quickly drawn in towards the body again
  • st.-eustache — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
  • stag hunting — the act of hunting or chasing and killing stags
  • starch syrup — glucose (def 2).
  • starch-syrup — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
  • state church — established church.
  • stealthfully — secret, clandestine, or surreptitious procedure.
  • 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.
  • stockpunisht — punished by being put in stocks
  • stomach pump — a suction pump for removing the contents of the stomach, used especially in cases of poisoning.
  • store-bought — commercially made rather than homemade.
  • storey house — (in W Africa) a house having more than one storey
  • stouthearted — brave and resolute; dauntless.
  • straight out — thoroughgoing: a straight-out Democrat.
  • straight-out — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • strophanthus — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Strophanthus, of the dogbane family, chiefly of tropical Africa.
  • studio couch — an upholstered couch, usually without a back, convertible into a double bed by sliding a bed frame out from beneath it and covering the frame with the mattress that forms the upper thickness of the upholstery.
  • stump speech — a political campaign speech, especially one made on a campaign tour.
  • subhastation — a public auction or sale
  • subthreshold — (of a stimulus) too weak to produce a response.
  • sudden death — an overtime period in which a tied contest is won and play is stopped immediately after one of the contestants scores, as in football, or goes ahead, as in golf.
  • sulphonation — the action or process of converting or being converted into a sulphonate
  • sulphur bath — a curative bath in which the water used has sulphates dissolved in it, especially one in which the water comes from a natural hot spring
  • sulphur tuft — a poisonous basidiomycetous fungus, Hypholoma fasciculare, having a sulphurous yellow cap and found in clumps on and around broad-leaved trees
  • summerweight — (of clothes) suitable in weight for wear in the summer; relatively light
  • super-sleuth — a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.
  • super-smooth — dead-smooth.
  • superathlete — a highly accomplished athlete, an exceptional athlete
  • superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
  • support hose — elastic stockings worn to reduce pressure on the veins of the leg, esp for people with varicose veins
  • synantherous — with united anthers
  • synchro unit — a type of alternating-current motor designed to maintain continuously, at some remote location, the same rotational angle that may be imposed by force upon the electrically connected rotating element of a similar motor.
  • tech support — an advising and troubleshooting service provided by a manufacturer, typically a software or hardware developer, to its customers, often online or on the telephone.
  • telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • thankfulness — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
  • the absolute — ultimate reality regarded as uncaused, unmodified, unified and complete, timeless, etc.
  • the bosporus — a strait between European and Asian Turkey, linking the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
  • the bushveld — an area of low altitude in N South Africa, having scrub vegetation
  • the business — If you say that someone or something is the business, you mean that they are the best of their kind.
  • the conquest — the conquest by the United Kingdom of French North America, ending in 1763
  • the dustheap — obscurity or oblivion
  • the hundreds — the numbers 100 to 109
  • the jurassic — the Jurassic period or rock system
  • the munchies — a craving for food, esp when induced by alcohol or drugs
  • the pictures — a cinema or film show
  • the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
  • the shudders — a feeling of horror, repugnance, etc.
  • the silurian — the Silurian period or rock system
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