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12-letter words containing t, h, y, e

  • fotheringhay — a village in NE Northamptonshire, in E England, near Peterborough: Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned here and executed 1587.
  • fourteenthly — in (the) fourteenth place
  • freight yard — a place on a rail network where freight trains are made up or broken up
  • french-style — French-cut.
  • frightenedly — thrown into a fright; afraid; scared; terrified: a frightened child cowering in the corner.
  • gametophytes — Plural form of gametophyte.
  • gametophytic — (botany) Of or pertaining to a gametophyte plant.
  • gauge theory — a type of theory of elementary particles designed to explain the strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions in terms of exchange of virtual particles
  • gene therapy — the application of genetic engineering to the transplantation of genes into human cells in order to cure a disease caused by a genetic defect, as a missing enzyme.
  • geochemistry — the science dealing with the chemical changes in and the composition of the earth's crust.
  • geophysicist — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
  • geothermally — By geothermal means, especially by means of geothermal energy.
  • get anywhere — to be successful
  • give the eye — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
  • goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
  • graph theory — the branch of mathematics dealing with linear graphs.
  • gray panther — a member of an organized group of elderly people seeking to secure or protect their rights by collective action.
  • grey panther — a member of the generation of affluent older consumers, who regard themselves as young, active, and sociable
  • group theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with the structure of mathematical groups and mappings between them.
  • gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
  • hadley chest — a style of chest made c1700 in Massachusetts or Connecticut, having front rails and panels carved in low relief with elaborate tulip and leaf patterns.
  • haematolyses — Plural form of haematolysis.
  • haematolysis — Haemolysis.
  • haematoxylin — Alternative spelling of hematoxylin.
  • haematoxylon — any thorny leguminous tree of the genus Haematoxylon, esp the logwood, of tropical America and SW Africa. The heartwood yields the dye haematoxylin
  • half-century — a period of 100 years.
  • halfwittedly — In a halfwitted manner.
  • have it away — to have sexual intercourse
  • have pity on — to have sympathy or show mercy for
  • headmasterly — In a manner befitting a headmaster.
  • headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
  • heart cherry — a large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry having soft flesh.
  • hearteningly — In a heartening way; cheeringly.
  • heath family — the plant family Ericaceae, characterized by evergreen or deciduous shrubs, trees, and woody plants growing in acid soil and having simple leaves, often showy flowers either solitary or in clusters, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the azalea, blueberry, cranberry, heather, madrone, mountain laurel, rhododendron, and trailing arbutus.
  • heavy hitter — a baseball player who makes many extra-base hits.
  • heavy-footed — clumsy or ponderous, as in movement or expressiveness: music that is heavy-footed and uninspired.
  • heavyhearted — Sad.
  • heavyweights — Plural form of heavyweight.
  • hectocotylus — a modified arm of the male of certain cephalopods that is used to transfer sperm to the female.
  • heliotherapy — treatment of disease by means of sunlight.
  • hemihydrates — Plural form of hemihydrate.
  • hemimetaboly — Hemimetabolism.
  • hemotoxicity — Toxicity that affects the blood (especially that affects red blood cells).
  • henley-shirt — a short- or long-sleeved pullover sport shirt, usually of cotton, with a round neckband and an often covered neckline placket.
  • henry tanner — Henry Ossawa [os-uh-wuh] /ˈɒs ə wə/ (Show IPA), 1859–1937, U.S. painter, in France after 1891.
  • hepaticology — the scientific study of bryophyte plants known as hepatics or liverworts
  • hepatomegaly — an abnormal enlargement of the liver, usually associated with liver disease or heart failure.
  • hepatoxicity — Toxicity that affects the liver.
  • heptahydrate — a hydrate that contains seven molecules of water, as magnesium sulfate, MgSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O.
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