11-letter words containing th
- ethnobotany — The scientific study of the traditional knowledge and customs of a people concerning plants and their medical, religious, and other uses.
- ethnography — The scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures.
- ethnologist — One who practices ethnology.
- ethological — Of or pertaining to ethology.
- ethyl ether — chemical anaesthetic; ether
- eurhythmics — Alternative spelling of eurythmics.
- eurhythmist — a person who teaches or practises eurhythmics
- eurythermal — (of organisms) able to tolerate a wide range of temperatures in the environment
- euthanatise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of euthanatize.
- euthanatize — (transitive) To euthanize.
- euthanizing — Present participle of euthanize.
- even though — although, despite the fact that
- every other — alternate
- ex cathedra — with authority
- exanthemata — Plural form of exanthema.
- except that — but for the fact that; were it not true that
- exophthalmy — Archaic form of exophthalmia.
- fairweather — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska. 15,292 feet (4660 meters).
- faith-based — affiliated with, supported by, or based on a religion or religious group: faith-based charities.
- faithlessly — In a faithless manner.
- faithworthy — worthy of faith, trustworthy
- false teeth — dentures
- fan the air — to strike at but fail to hit something
- farthermost — most distant or remote; farthest.
- farthingale — a hoop skirt or framework for expanding a woman's skirt, worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- fatheadedly — in a fatheaded manner
- father time — the personification of time as an old man, usually in a white robe, having a white beard, and carrying a scythe.
- fatherlands — Plural form of fatherland.
- feather bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- feather cut — a woman's hair style in which the hair is cut in short and uneven lengths and formed into small curls with featherlike tips.
- feather key — a rectangular key connecting the keyways of a shaft and a hub of a gear, pulley, etc., fastened in one keyway and free to slide in the other so that the hub can drive or be driven by the shaft at various positions along it.
- feather rot — a viral disease of birds that causes the feathers to become brittle and break off and the beak and claws to become soft.
- feather-bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- feather-cut — a woman's hair style in which the hair is cut in short and uneven lengths and formed into small curls with featherlike tips.
- featherback — any freshwater fish of the family Notopteridae, of Asia and western Africa, having a small, feathery dorsal fin and a very long anal fin extending from close behind the head to the tip of the tail.
- featherbeds — Plural form of featherbed.
- featherbone — a substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of domestic fowls.
- featheredge — an edge that thins out like a feather.
- featherhead — featherbrain.
- featherless — Having no feathers.
- featherlike — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
- feedthrough — a connector used to pass a conductor through a circuit board or enclosure.
- feldspathic — of, relating to, or containing feldspar.
- fifteenthly — in the fifteenth place or position
- fifth force — a theoretical force in nature in addition to the strong and weak forces, gravitation, and the electromagnetic force.
- fifth grade — the fifth year of school, when children are ten or eleven years old
- fifth wheel — a horizontal ring or segment of a ring, consisting of two bands that slide on each other, placed above the front axle of a carriage and designed to support the forepart of the body while allowing it to turn freely in a horizontal plane.
- fifty-fifth — next after the fifty-fourth; being the ordinal number for 55.
- fifty-ninth — next after the fifty-eighth; being the ordinal number for 59.
- fifty-sixth — next after the fifty-fifth; being the ordinal number for 56.