12-Letter Words Containing T

Geobotanist

""The study of the chemical composition of, and of actual or possible chemical changes in, the crust of the earth.""

The magnetism of the earth.

One skilled in geometry; a geometer; a mathematician.

GEOMETRISE

GEOMETRIZE To investigate or apprehend geometrical quantities or laws; to make geometrical constructions; to proceed in accordance with the principles of geometry.

An earth scientist

Relating to the effect of physical features on international relations

""Any one of the sciences, such as geology or geochemistry, that deals with the earth.""

Pl. geostrategies The branch of geopolitics that deals with strategy.

GEOTECHNIC

Geothermal

Decrease in the number of people named Gerald (wordplay)

Germination

An antique cabinet (wordplay)

Senior government (wordplay)

Gerontocrat

Old Age

""Pl -schaften (German) [-ʃaftən] (Sociology) (often capital) a social group held together by practical concerns, formal and impersonal relationships, etc. Compare gemeinschaft [German, literally: society]""

""GESTICULATE To make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures.""

Gesticulate

One who gesticulates.

Helps for autobiographers

Silent partners of a sort

Literary stand-ins

Authoring for someone else

Worth setting puzzles produced under assumed name

Like work of unacknowledged author, worth testing out

Giftedness

GIGANTIC {huge=adj}

Pl. gingivectomies Surgical removal of gum tissue.

Plural or third person singular

Gingivitis

Geology () Translations

Of ancient Roman combat

Pleased to get one lariat designed to catch old combatant

""Pl. glioblastomas or glioblastomata (-m -t ) A malignant tumor of the central nervous system, usually occurring in the cerebrum of adults.""

In a glittering manner.

Person associated with (-ist)

Glutaminase

Glutathione

""A nonbarbiturate sedative and hypnotic drug, C 13 H 15 NO 2 .""

Gluttonous

GLYCERINATE

Glycerinate

English word

Any of a group of conjugated proteins having a carbohydrate as the nonprotein component.

GLYCOSYLATE

Glycosylate

Gnatcatcher

Goaltending

Goddaughter

Godfather

Acting on or stimulating the gonads: a gonadotropic hormone.

""A hormone secreted by the pituitary gland and placenta, which stimulates the gonads and controls reproductive activity.""

Goniometry

Pertaining to a country's rulers

Relating to ruling system

Type of intervention, frequently in strikes.

Governorate

Graceful

Gradiometer

Grandfather

Nan's clocks (wordplay)

Women like Moses

Glenway Westcott book (with "The").

Massive yearly payments for old people

Close ancestors

What were Russell and Anna Huxtable on "The Cosby Show" (wordplay)

Show-off (1975-80)

*Showboating type

Show-off

Graniteware

(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) a coarse-grained acid igneous rock containing almost twice as much plagioclase as orthoclase: intermediate in composition between granite and diorite [from grano + diorite ]

Granulation

Granulocyte

GRANULOCYTE

GRAPHITIZE

He will take you by your hand

Handwriting studier

One asking for your hand before getting to know you

Grateful

GRATEFUL deeply thankful

In a satisfying manner

Gratuitous

Gratulation

Gravimetry

Gravitation

As in pre-stage make-up (wordplay)

Heard Greece decorates to hide face

Magnanimous

Greenockite

Grittiness

""A pale green, pink, brown, or black garnet, Ca 3 Al 2 (SiO 4 ) 3 , occurring alone or as a constituent of the common garnet.""

Old king with quotes about a lake cuts a bizarre figure

Groundburst

Layers beneath kippers of crushed leaves

Groundwater

""A drug, C 10 H 22 N 4 , used in the form of its sulfate salt in the treatment of hypertension.""

Putting up as security collateral ahead of one bad result

""GUESSTIMATE an estimate based on little information, being little better than a guess.""

Less-than-certain totals

Figures in the ballpark

Ballpark figures

""GUILLOTINE A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim.""

Guiltiness

Guitarfish

Gunsmithing

Young vagabonds

Gutturalism

""One of a sect of philosophers, said to have been found in India by Alexander the Great, who went almost naked, denied themselves the use of flesh, renounced bodily pleasures, and employed themselves in the contemplation of nature.""

Pl. gynecocracies or gynocracies Government by women.

""The branch of medicine dealing with health care for women, especially the diagnosis and treatment of disorders affecting the female reproductive organs.""

Abnormal enlargement of the breasts in a male.

""Of, relating to, or resulting from the magnetic properties of a spinning, electrically charged particle.""

HABILITATE Qualified or entitled.

Qualification obtained by learner, one in residence

Habitableness.

HABITUAL someone who has a habit

Habituation

Hairbreadth

Haircutting

A minute distance

Habits harder to change in small measure

Tiny margin of safety for Damocles

Quibbler (2 words)

One disputing cowboy shirt retail price, at first

Quibbler

Hairstyling

They give some people a clip around the ears for cutting staff

Thought I used this clue before but I hadn't dreamt it up

Hallucinate

One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.

HALOGENATE

HALOGENATE HALOGEN a non metallic element

Halterbreak

HALTERBROKE

Ethnic triangular treats

Thwarting

Handbreadth

Handcraft

Handicraft

Any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand.

Handwriting

Chance expression of disgust about change involving co-star of Oliver!

Fellow writer getting caught out by attitude that wasn't planned

Writer bumping into ten chaps, a peculiar coincidence

Haptoglobin

An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor.

Parking area for aeroplanes

Surfaced area for parking vehicles

Harmonicist

Harvesttime

Abstract noun (-ity)

With the head foremost; -- of motion.

Mind adulterous woman on top of her form

Person in charge of a school

Female school leader

Where to see a psychiatrist (wordplay)

Place for a pirates privy (wordplay)

Military command center (wordplay)

Fickle lover having courage to wave

One who causes overwhelming distress

Narrow defeat, for example

Causing discontent.

Heartening

Hearthstone

Heartiness

Try being fashionable and moving

Deeply sad tendency in an audience

Direction in trial causing great sadness

They may be tugged at

The human violin section.

They can be tugged at

Rock group around the fire (wordplay)

Gratifying resolution of nightmare war

Making one feel good

In a heathenish manner.

HEATHENIZE To render heathen or heathenish.

Sad (2 words)

Melancholy

Heavyweight

Dull or lifeless, from the Latin for 'blunt'

""HEBRAIZE to make Hebrew, also HEBRAISE""

Hectograph

Heldentenor

Helicopter

Revolving around the sun

Revolving round the sun

Heliolatry

Adjective (-ous)

""The phenomenon of turning toward the light, seen in many leaves and flowers.""

""The large brownish aquatic larva of the dobsonfly, often used as fishing bait. Also called dobson , snake doctor .""

""Pl. hemangiomas also hemangiomata (-m -t ) A benign skin lesion consisting of dense, usually elevated masses of dilated blood vessels.""

Producing blood.

Hematology

The science encompassing the medical study of the blood and blood-producing organs.

Hematoxylin

Hemerythrin

HEMICHORDATE

HEMIHYDRATE

Hemihydrate

Noun (-tion)

Hemoprotein

HEMSTITCHER hemstitch

Hemstitch

HENOTHEIST

Abnormal enlargement of the liver.

Passable property of woman to change, possessing boring name

Relating to or based on hereditarianism.

By inheritance; in an hereditary manner.

The state of being heritable.

""The science of interpretation and explanation; exegesis; esp., that branch of theology which defines the laws whereby the meaning of the Scriptures is to be ascertained.""

A way to be sealed

Completely (sealed)

Hermeticism

(Done) with wavering or indecision

(Done) with indecisive pauses

Homeless dental hygienist working in indecisive manner

Heteroauxin

""Having the vertebral column evidently continued into the upper lobe of the tail, which is usually longer than the lower one, as in sharks.""

Heteroclite

Heterocycle

HETEROCYCLE

Heterodoxy

English word

HETERODYNE

""Spending different stages of a life cycle on different, usually unrelated hosts. Used of parasites such as rust fungi and tapeworms.""

Heteroecism

""Either of two conjugating gametes that differ in structure or behavior, such as the small motile male spermatozoon and the larger nonmotile female ovum. Also called anisogamete .""

HETEROGAMETE

Heterogamy

""The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers which differ in regard to stamens and pistils, as in the aster.""

Heterogeny

Not from the same source

Heterogony

Heterograft

A cell having two or more genetically different nuclei.

""Characterized by heterology; consisting of different elements, or of like elements in different proportions; different; opposed to homologous; as, heterologous organs. homologous; as, heterologous organs.""

Heteronomy

Subject to external controls

Having dissimilar leaves on one plant.