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