12-letter words containing ther
- featherheads — Plural form of featherhead.
- featheriness — The state or quality of being feathery.
- featherlight — extremely light; light as a feather.
- firebreather — A performer who creates fireballs by breathing a fine mist of fuel over an open flame.
- flat-earther — a person who adheres to the idea that the earth is flat.
- foregathered — Simple past tense and past participle of foregather.
- fotheringhay — a village in NE Northamptonshire, in E England, near Peterborough: Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned here and executed 1587.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- gene therapy — the application of genetic engineering to the transplantation of genes into human cells in order to cure a disease caused by a genetic defect, as a missing enzyme.
- geothermally — By geothermal means, especially by means of geothermal energy.
- get together — an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal: the get of a stallion.
- get-together — an informal and usually small social gathering.
- god-botherer — an over-zealous Christian
- gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
- goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
- grandfathers — Plural form of grandfather.
- grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
- gray panther — a member of an organized group of elderly people seeking to secure or protect their rights by collective action.
- grey panther — a member of the generation of affluent older consumers, who regard themselves as young, active, and sociable
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- half brother — brother (def 2).
- half leather — a type of book binding consisting of a leather binding on the spine and, sometimes, the corners, with paper or cloth sides.
- half-brother — brother (def 2).
- half-leather — half binding.
- hand leather — a piece of leather wrapped around the hand of a shoemaker in order to protect it from being cut while pulling thread
- heliotherapy — treatment of disease by means of sunlight.
- heterotherms — Plural form of heterotherm.
- heterothermy — The possession of characteristics of both poikilothermy and homeothermy.
- homeotherapy — therapy for a disease by means of an agent that is similar to but not identical with the causative agent of the disease.
- homeothermal — homoiothermal.
- homeothermic — (biology, of an, animal) Capable of maintaining a relatively constant body temperature independent of the surrounding environment.
- homoiotherms — Plural form of homoiotherm.
- homoiothermy — having a body temperature that is relatively constant and mostly independent of the temperature of the environment; warm-blooded (opposed to poikilothermic).
- homothermous — (biology) warm-blooded.
- housefathers — Plural form of housefather.
- housemothers — Plural form of housemother.
- hydrotherapy — the branch of therapeutics that deals with the curative use of water.
- hydrothermal — noting or pertaining to the action of hot, aqueous solutions or gases within or on the surface of the earth.
- hygrothermal — (physics) Of or pertaining to both humidity and temperature.
- hyperthermal — Also, thermic. of, relating to, or caused by heat or temperature: thermal capacity.
- hyperthermia — Pathology. abnormally high fever.
- hyperthermic — Having a very high body temperature.
- hypnotherapy — treatment of a symptom, disease, or addiction by means of hypnotism.
- idiothermous — warm-blooded
- indricothere — a long-necked, long-legged, fossil mammal, Indricotherium transouralicum, related to the rhinoceros and existing 10 to 30 million years ago, possibly the largest and heaviest land mammal.
- iontotherapy — (medicine) The therapeutic use of iontophoresis.
- isothermally — occurring at constant temperature.
- leather star — a starfish, Dermasterias imbricata, of the western coast of North America, having the body covered by a thick, leathery skin.
- leather-hard — (of ceramic clay) moist but not sufficiently so to be plastic.
- leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.