12-letter words containing t, o, l, h
- bastel house — (on the Anglo-Scottish border) a partly fortified house, usually with a vaulted ground floor.
- bathophilous — (of an organism) living in very deep water
- battleworthy — capable of engaging in combat; ready for battle: a decline in the nation's battleworthy forces.
- beacon light — a light signal for shipping
- beaver cloth — beaver1 (def 8).
- betanaphthol — a colorless, crystalline isomer of naphthol, C10H8O, used as an antiseptic and parasiticide
- bibliothecal — relating to a bibliotheca
- bibliotheque — a library.
- biotechnical — relating to biotechnology
- blabbermouth — a person who talks too much or indiscreetly
- blastosphere — blastula
- bletheration — nonsense!
- block heater — an electrically operated immersion heater fitted either to enter the water hose or the water jacket surrounding the cylinder block of a motor to warm the coolant in cold weather.
- bloodthirsty — Bloodthirsty people are eager to use violence or display a strong interest in violent things. You can also use bloodthirsty to refer to very violent situations.
- bloody shirt — something, as a political issue or historical event, that can be used to stir up outrage, partisan support, etc.
- blow through — to leave; make off
- blue norther — a cold north wind that brings rapidly falling temperatures.
- boiled shirt — a dress shirt with a stiff front
- bolshevistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Bolshevists or Bolshevism.
- bolt upright — If someone is sitting or standing bolt upright, they are sitting or standing very straight.
- bomb shelter — a shelter, usually underground, in which people take refuge from bomb attacks
- border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
- borscht belt — (sometimes initial capital letters) the hotels of the predominantly Jewish resort area in the Catskill Mountains, many of them offering nightclub or cabaret entertainment.
- bothy ballad — a folk song, esp one from the farming community of NE Scotland
- bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
- bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
- bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
- butter cloth — a type of open, unsized muslin
- buttonholing — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
- cadet school — a training establishment for cadets in the army
- capitol hill — the area around the Capitol in Washington, DC
- cartoonishly — in a cartoonish manner
- catastrophal — (rare) Catastrophic.
- catch a cold — to make a loss; lose one's investment
- cathode glow — a luminous region between the Aston dark space and the Crookes dark space in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
- cathodically — in a cathodic manner, by using a cathode
- centillionth — (in Britain and Germany) a number equal to 10–600
- cephalometer — an instrument for positioning the human head for X-ray examination in cephalometry
- cephalometry — measurement of the dimensions of the human head by radiography: used mainly in orthodontics
- chalcolithic — of or relating to a period characterized by the use of both stone and bronze implements
- chalcopyrite — a widely distributed yellow mineral consisting of a sulphide of copper and iron in tetragonal crystalline form: the principal ore of copper. Formula: CuFeS2
- chalicothere — any of various very large extinct Tertiary horselike perissodactyl mammals that had clawed feet but otherwise resembled titanotheres
- channel port — one of the English or French ports on the English Channel
- charcoal rot — a disease of plants, especially sorghum, corn, etc., characterized by basal stem lesions and a black discoloration and dry rot of the internal tissues at the base of the stem and upper roots, caused by a fungus, Macrophomina phaseoli.
- chartophylax — an official who serves chiefly as the chancellor and archivist of a diocese.
- cheese cloth — a lightweight cotton fabric of open texture.
- cheiloplasty — plastic surgery of the lip.
- cheluviation — the leaching of chelates through soil