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12-letter words containing t, o, h, e, f

  • out of reach — beyond arm's length
  • out of shape — person: unfit
  • outfangthief — the right of a lord to try a thief captured within his jurisdiction, regardless of where the thief is from
  • over-fraught — Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
  • photo relief — a method of showing the configuration of the relief of an area by photographing a model of it that is illuminated by a lamp in the northwest corner
  • photo-offset — a method of printing, based on photolithography, in which the inked image is transferred from the metal plate to a rubber surface and then to the paper.
  • pitched-roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
  • proof sheets — trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) read for the correction of errors; proofs
  • proof theory — (logic)   The branch of logic describing procedures for combining logical statements to show, by a series of truth-preserving transformations, that one statement is a consequence of some other statement or group of statements.
  • put flesh on — If you put flesh on something, you add details and more information to it.
  • red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
  • right-footer — (esp in Ireland) a Protestant
  • safety touch — a two-point play
  • self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • shatterproof — designed or made to resist shattering: shatterproof glass in automobile windows.
  • shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
  • sixth former — student: 16-18
  • slothfulness — sluggardly; indolent; lazy.
  • smooth-faced — beardless; smooth-shaven.
  • soft chancre — chancroid.
  • soft-hearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
  • soft-shelled — Also, soft-shelled. having a soft, flexible, or fragile shell, as a crab that has recently molted.
  • softheadedly — in a soft-headed manner
  • sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • take hold of — grasp, seize sth
  • 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 likes of — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
  • this side of — If you say that something will not happen this side of a date or event, you mean that it will not happen before that date or event.
  • thoroughfare — a road, street, or the like, that leads at each end into another street.
  • touchy-feely — Informal. emphasizing or marked by emotional openness and enthusiastic physicality: a touchy-feely encounter group.
  • trefoil arch — an arch with cusplike intrados.
  • unfathomable — not able to be fathomed, or completely understood; incomprehensible: heroism in the face of unfathomable conflict.
  • waffle cloth — honeycomb (def 5a).
  • weatherproof — able to withstand exposure to all kinds of weather.
  • white coffee — coffee: with milk
  • wolf whistle — a wolf call made by whistling, often characterized by two sliding sounds, a peal up to a higher note and then one up to a lower note and down.
  • wolf-whistle — If someone wolf-whistles, they make a whistling sound with a short rising note and a longer falling note. Some men wolf-whistle at a woman to show that they think she is attractive, and some women find this offensive.
  • youthfulness — characterized by youth; young.
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