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12-letter words containing t, s, h, i

  • death spiral — a period of continuous deterioration that leads ultimately to catastrophic failure or destruction
  • demolishment — to destroy or ruin (a building or other structure), especially on purpose; tear down; raze.
  • diastrophism — the process of movement and deformation of the earth's crust that gives rise to large-scale features such as continents, ocean basins, and mountains
  • dichotomised — Simple past tense and past participle of dichotomise.
  • dichromatism — the quality or condition of being dichromatic
  • dictatorship — Dictatorship is government by a dictator.
  • dilettantish — a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.
  • diminishment — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
  • diphosphates — a pyrophosphate.
  • diphtheroids — resembling diphtheria, especially in the formation of a false membrane in the throat.
  • directorship — a person or thing that directs.
  • disauthorize — to take authority away from (a person or organization)
  • disburthened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburthen.
  • disc shutter — a shutter in a movie camera or projector that covers the gap between separate frames
  • disco lights — coloured lights that flash on and off in time to the music at a disco etc
  • discotheques — Plural form of discotheque.
  • disenchanted — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
  • disenchanter — One who disenchants.
  • disestablish — to deprive of the character of being established; cancel; abolish.
  • dish antenna — an open, relatively shallow container of pottery, glass, metal, wood, etc., used for various purposes, especially for holding or serving food.
  • dishabituate — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
  • disheartened — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
  • dishevelment — to let down, as hair, or wear or let hang in loose disorder, as clothing.
  • dishonesties — Plural form of dishonesty.
  • disinherited — Simple past tense and past participle of disinherit.
  • disinhibited — Simple past tense and past participle of disinhibit.
  • disinhibitor — Something that causes a reduction in one's inhibitions; that makes people, or animals act more impulsively.
  • dispatch box — a case or box used to hold valuables or documents, esp official state documents
  • dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
  • dissenterish — having a part of the character or quality of a dissenter
  • distraughtly — distracted; deeply agitated.
  • ditheistical — of or relating to ditheism, ditheistic
  • dithyrambist — a writer or performer of dithyrambs
  • downshifting — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a lower gear.
  • droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
  • dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.
  • duncan smith — (George) Iain. born 1954, British politician; leader of the Conservative Party (2001–03); secretary of state for work and pensions (2010–2016)
  • duty chemist — a dispensing chemist's that is open to the public for a specific period when other chemists are closed
  • dyotheletism — the teaching that Christ had both a divine will and a human will
  • dysaesthesia — a disagreeable sensation such as burning or itching arising from impairment of the nervous system
  • dysaesthetic — relating to or suffering from dysaesthesia
  • dysesthesias — Plural form of dysesthesia.
  • dysphemistic — Of, pertaining to, or being a dysphemism.
  • dysrhythmias — Plural form of dysrhythmia.
  • e-thrombosis — a clot in the bloodstream caused by long periods spent being physically inactive at a computer
  • earth summit — a summit conference of 100 or more earth leaders debating global environmental and development issues, specifically the summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, but the term is also applied e.g. to a projected similar event in 2012
  • earthshaking — imperiling, challenging, or affecting basic beliefs, attitudes, relationships, etc.
  • east chicago — a port in NW Indiana, on Lake Michigan, near Chicago.
  • east lothian — a historic county in SE Scotland.
  • eating house — a restaurant or other place where one can eat
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