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12-letter words containing th

  • death spiral — a period of continuous deterioration that leads ultimately to catastrophic failure or destruction
  • death threat — a threat to kill someone
  • death throes — The death throes of something are its final stages, just before it fails completely or ends.
  • death valley — a desert valley in E California and W Nevada: the lowest, hottest, and driest area of the US. Lowest point: 86 m (282 ft) below sea level. Area: about 3885 sq km (1500 sq miles)
  • death's-head — a human skull or a representation of one
  • deathmatches — Plural form of deathmatch.
  • deathwatches — Plural form of deathwatch.
  • deep therapy — radiotherapy with very penetrating short-wave radiation
  • deinotherium — any member of the genus Deinotherium, consisting of mammals resembling elephants that existed during the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene epochs
  • delta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex during deep sleep, occurring at a frequency of 1 to 4 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
  • demythifying — to create a myth about (a person, place, tradition, etc.); cause to become a myth.
  • depth charge — A depth charge is a type of bomb which explodes under water and which is used especially to destroy enemy submarines.
  • dethronement — to remove from a throne; depose.
  • deuteropathy — any abnormality that is secondary to another pathological condition.
  • diarthrodial — a form of articulation that permits maximal motion, as the knee joint.
  • diathermancy — the property of transmitting infrared radiation
  • diazomethane — a yellow odourless explosive gas, used as a methylating agent. Formula: CH2:N:N
  • diethylamide — (organic compound) The derivative of a compound formed by adding an amide group with two ethyl substituents, N(C2H5)2.
  • diethylamine — (organic compound) The secondary amine (CH3CH2)2NH.
  • dip the flag — to salute by lowering a flag briefly
  • diphtheritic — pertaining to diphtheria.
  • diphtheroids — resembling diphtheria, especially in the formation of a false membrane in the throat.
  • diphthongize — to change into or pronounce as a diphthong.
  • disauthorize — to take authority away from (a person or organization)
  • disburthened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburthen.
  • discotheques — Plural form of discotheque.
  • ditheistical — of or relating to ditheism, ditheistic
  • ditheletical — relating to ditheletism, the doctrine that Christ had two wills
  • dithyrambist — a writer or performer of dithyrambs
  • do away with — from this or that place; off: to go away.
  • do the lolly — to lose one's temper
  • do the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
  • donald knuth — (person)   Donald E. Knuth, the author of the TeX document formatting system, Metafont its font-design program and the 3 volume computer science "Bible" of algorithms, "The Art of Computer Programming". Knuth suggested the name "Backus-Naur Form" and was also involved in the SOL simulation language, and developed the WEB literate programming system. See also MIX, Turingol.
  • dorothea dix — Dorothea Lynde [lind] /lɪnd/ (Show IPA), (Dorothy) 1802–87, U.S. educator and social reformer.
  • double cloth — a cloth used in overcoating, blankets, brocade, etc., made by interweaving two physically discrete fabrics at various points in the pattern by bringing warp and fill yarns from each through the other to be worked on the opposite face of the compound fabric.
  • double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
  • double-width — twice the usual width: double-wide mobile homes consisting of two sections bolted together.
  • dress length — a piece of material that is big enough to make a dress from
  • drinker moth — a large yellowish-brown bombycid eggar moth, Philudoria potatoria, having a stout hairy body, the larvae of which drink dew and feed on grasses
  • 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)
  • duple rhythm — a rhythmic pattern created by a succession of disyllabic feet.
  • 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.
  • dysrhythmias — Plural form of dysrhythmia.
  • e-thrombosis — a clot in the bloodstream caused by long periods spent being physically inactive at a computer
  • earth almond — chufa.
  • earth closet — a type of lavatory in which earth is used to cover excreta
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