12-letter words that end in th
- scotch broth — a thick soup prepared from mutton, vegetables, and barley.
- secchi depth — the depth at which a Secchi disk is no longer visible from the surface of ocean water.
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- second teeth — the teeth which replace the milk teeth
- sixty-eighth — next after the sixty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 68.
- sixty-fourth — next after the sixty-third; being the ordinal number for 64.
- skirt length — the length of someone's skirt
- slipper bath — a bath in the shape of a slipper, with a covered end
- smart growth — People such as architects and environmentalists use smart growth to refer to the construction of new buildings and roads within a town or city so that they are close to people's workplaces and mass transit systems and so that open spaces are not built on.
- snaggletooth — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
- solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
- sponge cloth — any cloth loosely woven of coarse yarn to produce a spongy look or texture, especially one constructed in honeycomb weave.
- sudden death — an overtime period in which a tied contest is won and play is stopped immediately after one of the contestants scores, as in football, or goes ahead, as in golf.
- sulphur bath — a curative bath in which the water used has sulphates dissolved in it, especially one in which the water comes from a natural hot spring
- super-sleuth — a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.
- super-smooth — dead-smooth.
- take an oath — pledge
- take up with — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- team up with — join forces with
- thirty-fifth — next after the thirty-fourth; being the ordinal number for 35.
- thirty-ninth — next after the thirty-eighth; being the ordinal number for 39.
- thirty-sixth — next after the thirty-fifth; being the ordinal number for 36.
- through with — having finished with (esp when dissatisfied with)
- ticket booth — kiosk: sells tickets
- to hell with — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
- to the death — to the very end (of a struggle, quarrel, etc.)
- to the teeth — (in most vertebrates) one of the hard bodies or processes usually attached in a row to each jaw, serving for the prehension and mastication of food, as weapons of attack or defense, etc., and in mammals typically composed chiefly of dentin surrounding a sensitive pulp and covered on the crown with enamel.
- tone in with — to harmonize with
- tread a path — If you tread a particular path, you take a particular course of action or do something in a particular way.
- trench mouth — Vincent's angina.
- trochelminth — any invertebrate of the phylum Trochelminthes (now usually broken up into several phyla), comprising the rotifers, gastrotrichs, and several other forms.
- turkish bath — a bath in which the bather, after copious perspiration in a steam room, showers and has a rubdown.
- tussock moth — any of several moths of the family Lymantriidae, the larvae of which have characteristic tufts of hair on the body and feed on the leaves of various deciduous trees.
- twenty-fifth — next after the twenty-fourth; being the ordinal number for 25.
- twenty-ninth — next after the twenty-eighth; being the ordinal number for 29.
- twenty-sixth — next after the twenty-fifth; being the ordinal number for 26.
- uniform with — having the same form, appearance, etc. as
- virgin birth — Theology. the doctrine or dogma that, by the miraculous agency of God, the birth of Christ did not impair or prejudice the virginity of Mary. Compare Immaculate Conception.
- vision cloth — a curtain with an inset scrim behind which a lighted scene appears, as a vision, dream, or the like.
- vortex depth — The vortex depth is the depth below an impeller at which its influence can still be seen in a mixed fluid.
- voting booth — polling kiosk
- waffle cloth — honeycomb (def 5a).
- waltz-length — having the hemline at mid calf: a waltz-length nightgown.
- weathercloth — a canvas cover for sheltering crew or protecting boat parts from the weather
- wet strength — the relative resistance of paper to tearing when wet, resulting from the addition of resins during manufacture.
- what…do with — to put or place
- whole-length — extended to or having its entire length; not shortened or abridged: a whole-length report.
- wigglesworth — Michael, 1631–1705, U.S. theologian and author, born in England.
- willow south — a city in S Alaska, about 113 km (70 miles) northwest of Anchorage: chosen as the site of the projected new state capital in 1976
- wisdom teeth — the third molar on each side of the upper and lower jaws: the last tooth to erupt.