11-letter words containing th
- breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
- breechcloth — a cloth worn about the loins; loincloth
- bridewealth — (in some nonindustrial societies) the money or goods given to the family of a bride by the bridegroom or his family.
- bridle path — A bridle path is a path intended for people riding horses.
- bring forth — to give birth to
- brith milah — the rite of circumcision on the eighth day after birth
- brotherhood — Brotherhood is the affection and loyalty that you feel for people who you have something in common with.
- brotherlike — like a brother
- brown earth — an intrazonal soil of temperate humid regions typically developed under deciduous forest into a dark rich layer (mull): characteristic of much of southern and central England
- bubble bath — Bubble bath is a liquid that smells nice and makes a lot of bubbles when you add it to your bath water.
- butterworth — George. 1885–1916, British composer, noted for his interest in folk song and his settings of Housman's poems
- by the book — according to the rules; in the prescribed or usual way
- by the head — with the bow deeper in the water than the stern
- by the neck — (of a bottle of beer) served unpoured
- cactus moth — a moth, Cactoblastis cactorum, native to South America and introduced into Australia to control prickly pear cactus, on which the larvae feed.
- cadet cloth — a heavy woolen cloth of double-cloth construction and bluish-gray color, used especially for uniforms at military schools.
- calathiform — cup-shaped; concave.
- calf-length — Calf-length skirts, dresses, and coats come to halfway between your knees and ankles.
- calisthenic — Of, or relating to calisthenics.
- calycanthus — any of several shrubs of the genus Calycanthus, found in North America
- cantharidal — relating to or made of cantharides
- cantharides — a diuretic and urogenital stimulant or irritant prepared from the dried bodies of Spanish fly (family Meloidae, not Cantharidae), once thought to be an aphrodisiac
- cantharidic — cantharidal
- cantharidin — the compound C10H12O4, which is the active ingredient in cantharides and is secreted by many species of blister beetle
- cardiopathy — a heart disease or disorder
- carpathians — a mountain range in central Europe, extending from N Slovakia to central Romania. Highest peak, Gerlachovka, 8737 feet (2663 meters).
- carpet moth — any of several geometrid moths with black- (or brown-)and-white mottled wings
- case method — Also called case-study method [keys-stuhd-ee] /ˈkeɪsˈstʌd i/ (Show IPA). the teaching or elucidation of a subject or issue through analysis and discussion of actual cases, as in business education.
- case*method — An analysis and design method from Oracle targeted at information management applications.
- cathartical — Cathartic.
- cathedratic — relating to the seat of the bishop
- catherine i — ?1684–1727, second wife of Peter the Great, whom she succeeded as empress of Russia (1725–27)
- catheterize — to insert a catheter into
- cathode ray — a flow of electrons emanating from a cathode in a vacuum tube and focused into a narrow beam.
- catholicate — the legal power of the leader of an Armenian church
- catholicism — Catholicism is the traditions, the behaviour, and the set of Christian beliefs that are held by Catholics.
- catholicity — a wide range of interests, tastes, etc; liberality
- catholicize — to make or become catholic
- cell theory — a basic tenet of modern biology, first stated by Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann in 1838–39, that cells are the basic units of structure and function in living organisms.
- cenesthesia — the mass of undifferentiated sensations that make one aware of the body and its condition, as in the feeling of well-being or illness
- cephalothin — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
- chaetognath — any small wormlike marine invertebrate of the phylum Chaetognatha, including the arrowworms, having a coelom and a ring of bristles around the mouth
- charge with — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- cheat death — If you say that someone cheats death, you mean they only just avoid being killed.
- cheek tooth — any of the three posterior chewing teeth on each side of the upper and lower jaws in human adults; molar.
- cheesecloth — Cheesecloth is cotton cloth that is very thin and light. There are tiny holes between the threads of the cloth.
- childbirths — Plural form of childbirth.
- chillicothe — a city in S Ohio.
- chloanthite — a form of nickel arsenide having commercial importance as a nickel ore
- citharistic — relating to the cithar