12-letter words containing t, o, a, h, e
- stay-at-home — not inclined to travel or seek diversions or pastimes outside one's residence, area, or country.
- steam shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
- steam-shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
- steatorrhoea — the presence of excess fat in the stools, usually caused by disease of the pancreas or intestine, and characterized by chronic diarrhea and weight loss.
- steganograph — a piece of coded writing; cipher
- stenographer — a person who specializes in taking dictation in shorthand.
- stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
- stenothermal — (of animals or plants) able to exist only within a narrow range of temperature
- stereography — the art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane.
- stomach ache — pain in gut
- stone-washed — Stone-washed jeans are jeans which have been specially washed with small pieces of stone so that when you buy them they are fairly pale and soft.
- stonyhearted — unfeeling; pitiless; cruel
- storm-lashed — badly affected by storms
- stouthearted — brave and resolute; dauntless.
- stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
- stratosphere — the region of the upper atmosphere extending upward from the tropopause to about 30 miles (50 km) above the earth, characterized by little vertical change in temperature.
- strep throat — an acute sore throat caused by hemolytic streptococci and accompanied by fever and prostration.
- strophiolate — having a strophiole
- sycophantize — to act the sycophant
- synantherous — with united anthers
- synarthroses — immovable articulation; a fixed or immovable joint; suture.
- table d'hote — a meal of preselected courses served at a fixed time and price to the guests at a hotel or restaurant.
- take an oath — pledge
- take hold of — grasp, seize sth
- tampico hemp — a stiff fiber obtained from the leaves of various species of Agave, as A. falcata or A. sisalana.
- tao te ching — the philosophical book in verse supposedly written by Lao-tzu.
- tax loophole — a legal way of avoiding the payment of tax, or part of a tax bill, due to a gap in tax legislation
- teaching job — a position as a teacher
- technobabble — incomprehensible technical language or jargon.
- technobandit — a person who steals technological secrets, as from the government or a place of employment, and sells them to agents of foreign governments or to competing firms.
- technocratic — of, relating to, or designating a technocrat or technocracy.
- technography — the description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
- technomaniac — a person with an obsessional enthusiasm for technology
- technophilia — a person who loves or is enthusiastic about advanced technology.
- technophobia — abnormal fear of or anxiety about the effects of advanced 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
- telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
- 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.
- telolecithal — having an accumulation of yolk near the vegetal pole, as the large-yolked eggs or ova of reptiles and birds.
- tenochtitlan — the capital of the Aztec empire: founded in 1325; destroyed by the Spaniards in 1521; now the site of Mexico City.
- teratophobia — fear of giving birth to a monster
- tetrachotomy — the segmentation of something into four parts
- tetrahydroxy — (of a molecule) containing four hydroxyl groups.
- tetramorphic — (in art) of or related to a composite representation of the four evangelists' symbols
- thaumatogeny — the belief that the origin of life was the result of a miracle
- the absolute — ultimate reality regarded as uncaused, unmodified, unified and complete, timeless, etc.
- the cenotaph — the monument in Whitehall, London, honouring the dead of both World Wars: designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens: erected in 1920
- the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies