12-letter words containing t, h, u
- read-through — reading (def 1).
- refuse chute — a chute in a building which rubbish and waste is thrown down to the main refuse bins, etc
- return match — sport: second game between same teams
- reupholstery — the materials used to cushion and cover furniture.
- rhadamanthus — Classical Mythology. a son of Zeus and Europa, rewarded for the justice he exemplified on earth by being made, after his death, a judge in the Underworld, where he served with his brothers Minos and Aeacus.
- rheumatismal — of or relating to rheumatism
- rheumatology — the study and treatment of rheumatic diseases.
- rich mixture — A rich mixture is a fuel/air mixture containing an excessive proportion of fuel.
- 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
- romp through — If you romp through something, you do it or deal with it quickly and easily.
- router patch — a plywood panel patch with parallel sides and rounded ends.
- rubber match — rubber2 (def 4)
- run off with — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- run the show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
- run to earth — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- rush matting — a floor covering made from rushes (plants of the genus Juncus)
- rush through — If you rush something through, you deal with it quickly so that it is ready in a shorter time than usual.
- rust-through — an act or instance of rusting: The body of the car is protected against rust-through.
- rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
- ryobu shinto — a fusion of Shinto and Buddhism, which flourished in Japan in the 13th century
- safety touch — a two-point play
- sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
- saint hubert — a borough in S Quebec, Canada, just E of Montreal.
- saint-hubert — town in S Quebec, Canada: part of metropolitan Montreal: pop. 77,000
- scatophagous — feeding on dung or excrement
- scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
- scratchbuilt — describing something which has been constructed by scratchbuilding
- scrub typhus — an acute febrile disease characterized by severe headache, skin rash, chills, and swelling of the lymph nodes, caused by the bite of mites infected with the microorganism Rickettsia tsutsugamushi: occurs mainly in Asia, Australia, and the islands of the western Pacific
- scutch grass — Bermuda grass.
- see the menu — When a customer asks to see the menu, they ask you to bring them a copy of the menu.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- sell-through — quantity of direct sales made
- shamateurism — a sports term referring to a state in which an athlete is classified as an amateur but acts like a professional, usually by raising money
- 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).
- ship biscuit — hardtack.
- shoot-'em-up — a motion-picture or television program that emphasizes gunplay, action, and often violence.
- short column — a column whose relative dimensions ensure that when it is overloaded it fails by crushing, rather than buckling
- short radius — the perpendicular distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a side
- shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- show-through — the visibility through paper of what is printed on the other side.
- shut up shop — When a shop, office, or firm shuts up shop, it stops doing business and closes, either at the end of the day or permanently.
- shut-in well — confined to one's home, a hospital, etc., as from illness.
- shut-out bid — a pre-emptive bid
- shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
- 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.
- silhouettist — a creator of silhouette portraits
- sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.