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12-letter words containing t, h, u

  • 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.
  • take up with — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
  • talk through — guide through: a procedure, etc.
  • talmud torah — (in Europe) a community-supported Jewish elementary school for teaching children Hebrew, Bible, and the fundamentals of Judaism.
  • te rauparaha — ?1768–1849, Māori warrior chief, head of the Ngāti Toa tribe and signatory to the Treaty of Waitangi; noted for his cunning and his prowess in battle, he is also credited with composing "Ka Mate", the All Blacks' usual pre-match haka
  • team up with — join forces with
  • 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.
  • technicolour — brightly, showily, or garishly coloured; vividly noticeable
  • technojunkie — a person addicted to or obsessed by new technology
  • telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • 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
  • téléphérique — a cableway
  • telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
  • thankfulness — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
  • thaumatogeny — the belief that the origin of life was the result of a miracle
  • thaumatology — the study or description of miracles.
  • thaumaturgic — pertaining to a thaumaturge or to thaumaturgy.
  • the absolute — ultimate reality regarded as uncaused, unmodified, unified and complete, timeless, etc.
  • 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 blue boy — a famous portrait by Gainsborough of a boy wearing a blue outfit
  • 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 creature — whiskey or other intoxicating liquor
  • the crucible — a Sheffield theatre, venue of the annual world professional snooker championship
  • the dustheap — obscurity or oblivion
  • the faithful — the believers in and loyal adherents of a religious faith, esp Christianity
  • the hundreds — the numbers 100 to 109
  • the jurassic — the Jurassic period or rock system
  • the monument — a tall columnar building designed (1671) by Sir Christopher Wren to commemorate the Fire of London (1666), which destroyed a large part of the medieval city
  • the mountain — an extremist faction during the French Revolution led by Danton and Robespierre
  • the munchies — a craving for food, esp when induced by alcohol or drugs
  • the pictures — a cinema or film show
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