9-letter words starting with TH
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter TH. This section showcases how TH at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with TH, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| therefore | 15 | (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result | therefore X must be true |
| therapist | 14 | a person skilled in a particular type of therapy | - |
| thrilling | 13 | causing a surge of emotion or excitement | a thrilling performer to watch |
| threshold | 16 | the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway | - |
| threesome | 14 | three people considered as a unit | - |
| thrashing | 16 | the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | - |
| throbbing | 17 | an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart) | he felt a throbbing in his head |
| thickness | 18 | used of a line or mark | - |
| thrusting | 13 | a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow) | he made a thrusting motion with his fist |
| theatrics | 14 | - | - |
| thankless | 16 | not feeling or showing gratitude | How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child! |
| throwaway | 21 | thrown away | throwaway children living on the streets |
| throwback | 23 | characteristic of an atavist | - |
| thesaurus | 12 | a book containing a classified list of synonyms | - |
| threefold | 16 | by a factor of three | our rent increased threefold in the past five years |
| therefrom | 17 | from that circumstance or source | public interest and a policy deriving therefrom |
| thighbone | 18 | the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee | - |
| thumbnail | 16 | the nail of the thumb | - |
| thereupon | 14 | - | - |
| thickhead | 22 | Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call | - |
| thickened | 19 | having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear | - |
| thirtieth | 15 | coming next after the twenty-ninth in position | - |
| thwarting | 16 | preventing realization or attainment of a desire | - |
| therewith | 18 | - | - |
| threshing | 16 | the separation of grain or seeds from the husks and straw | they used to do the threshing by hand but now there are machines to do it |
| theocracy | 19 | a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided) | - |
| theosophy | 20 | a system of belief based on mystical insight into the nature of God and the soul | - |
| thermidor | 15 | eleventh month of the Revolutionary calendar (July and August); the month of heat | - |
| thingummy | 20 | something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | - |
| thinkable | 18 | capable of being conceived or imagined or considered | - |
| theorised | 13 | - | - |
| thirstier | 12 | - | - |
| thumbtack | 22 | a tack for attaching papers to a bulletin board or drawing board | - |
| thalassic | 14 | relating to the seas, especially smaller or inland seas | deposits of sediment in gulfs and seas rather than in the ocean proper are known as thalassic deposits |
| thallines | 12 | - | - |
| thallious | 12 | - | - |
| thalliums | 14 | - | - |
| thalluses | 12 | - | - |
| thanadars | 13 | - | - |
| thanatism | 14 | - | - |
| thanatist | 12 | - | - |
| thanatoid | 13 | - | - |
| thanedoms | 15 | - | - |
| thanehood | 16 | - | - |
| thaneship | 17 | the position of thane | - |
| thankings | 17 | - | - |
| thankyous | 19 | - | - |
| thatchers | 17 | - | - |
| thatchier | 17 | - | - |
| thatching | 18 | - | - |
| thaumatin | 14 | - | - |
| theaceous | 14 | - | - |
| theandric | 15 | - | - |
| theanines | 12 | - | - |
| thearchic | 19 | - | - |
| thebaines | 14 | - | - |
| thecodont | 15 | presumably in the common ancestral line to dinosaurs and crocodiles and birds | - |
| theftless | 15 | - | - |
| theftuous | 15 | - | - |
| thegither | 16 | - | - |
| thegnlier | 13 | - | - |
| theirself | 15 | - | - |
| thelement | 14 | - | - |
| thelytoky | 22 | - | - |
| thematics | 16 | - | - |
| thematise | 14 | - | - |
| thematize | 23 | - | - |
| themeless | 14 | - | - |
| thenabout | 14 | - | - |
| theocrasy | 17 | - | - |
| theocrats | 14 | - | - |
| theogonic | 15 | - | - |
| theologer | 13 | - | - |
| theologic | 15 | - | - |
| theologue | 13 | - | - |
| theomachy | 22 | - | - |
| theomancy | 19 | - | - |
| theomania | 14 | - | - |
| theopathy | 20 | - | - |
| theophagy | 21 | - | - |
| theophany | 20 | a visible (but not necessarily material) manifestation of a deity to a human person | - |
| theorbist | 14 | - | - |
| theoremic | 16 | - | - |
| theoretic | 14 | concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations | theoretical science |
| theorique | 21 | - | - |
| theoriser | 12 | someone who theorizes (especially in science or art) | - |
| theorises | 12 | - | - |
| theorists | 12 | - | - |
| theorized | 22 | - | - |
| theorizer | 21 | someone who theorizes (especially in science or art) | - |
| theorizes | 21 | - | - |
| theosophs | 17 | - | - |
| theotokoi | 16 | - | - |
| theotokos | 16 | - | - |
| theralite | 12 | - | - |
| therapies | 14 | - | - |
| therapise | 14 | - | - |
| therapize | 23 | - | - |
| therapsid | 15 | probably warm-blooded; considered direct ancestor of mammals | - |
| therbligs | 15 | - | - |
| thereaway | 18 | - | - |
| thereinto | 12 | - | - |
| theremins | 14 | - | - |
| thereness | 12 | real existence | things are really there...capture the thereness of them |
| thereunto | 12 | - | - |
| theriacal | 14 | - | - |
| theriacas | 14 | - | - |
| thermally | 17 | by means of heat or with respect to thermal properties | - |
| thermette | 14 | - | - |
| thermical | 16 | - | - |
| thermions | 14 | - | - |
| thermites | 14 | - | - |
| thermoses | 14 | - | - |
| thermoset | 14 | having the property of becoming permanently hard and rigid when heated or cured | the phenol resins and plastics were the original synthetic thermosetting materials |
| thermotic | 16 | - | - |
| therology | 16 | - | - |
| theropods | 15 | - | - |
| thesaural | 12 | - | - |
| thespians | 14 | - | - |
| thetching | 18 | - | - |
| theurgies | 13 | - | - |
| theurgist | 13 | - | - |
| thiamines | 14 | - | - |
| thiasuses | 12 | - | - |
| thiazides | 22 | - | - |
| thiazines | 21 | - | - |
| thiazoles | 21 | - | - |
| thickener | 18 | any material used to thicken | - |
| thicketed | 19 | - | - |
| thickleaf | 21 | - | - |
| thicksets | 18 | - | - |
| thickskin | 22 | - | - |
| thieflike | 19 | - | - |
| thievings | 16 | - | - |
| thiggings | 15 | - | - |
| thimbling | 17 | - | - |
| thinclads | 15 | - | - |
| thindowns | 16 | - | - |
| thinghood | 17 | - | - |
| thingiest | 13 | - | - |
| thingness | 13 | - | - |
| thinkably | 21 | - | - |
| thinkings | 17 | - | - |
| thinnings | 13 | - | - |
| thiofuran | 15 | - | - |
| thionates | 12 | - | - |
| thionines | 12 | - | - |
| thiophene | 17 | - | - |
| thiophens | 17 | - | - |
| thiotepas | 14 | - | - |
| thioureas | 12 | - | - |
| thirdhand | 17 | derived from what is primary or original by two intermediate steps | a thirdhand report |
| thirdings | 14 | - | - |
| thirdsman | 15 | - | - |
| thirdsmen | 15 | - | - |
| thirlages | 13 | - | - |
| thirsters | 12 | - | - |
| thirstful | 15 | - | - |
| thirstily | 15 | with eagerness; in an eager manner | - |
| thirsting | 13 | - | - |
| thirteens | 12 | - | - |
| thirtyish | 18 | - | - |
| thistlier | 12 | - | - |
| thitherto | 15 | - | - |
| tholeiite | 12 | - | - |
| tholepins | 14 | - | - |
| tholobate | 14 | - | - |
| thongiest | 13 | - | - |
| thornback | 20 | - | - |
| thornbill | 14 | any of various South American hummingbirds with a sharp pointed bill | - |
| thornbird | 15 | - | - |
| thornbush | 17 | - | - |
| thorniest | 12 | - | - |
| thornless | 12 | lacking thorns | - |
| thornlike | 16 | - | - |
| thorntail | 12 | - | - |
| thorntree | 12 | - | - |
| thoroughs | 16 | - | - |
| thoughted | 17 | - | - |
| thoughten | 16 | - | - |
| thousands | 13 | - | - |
| thraiping | 15 | - | - |
| thraldoms | 15 | - | - |
| thralldom | 15 | the state of being under the control of another person | - |
| thralling | 13 | - | - |
| thranging | 14 | - | - |
| thrappled | 17 | - | - |
| thrapples | 16 | - | - |
| thrashers | 15 | - | - |
| thrashier | 15 | - | - |
| thrasonic | 14 | - | - |
| threaders | 13 | - | - |
| threadfin | 16 | mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays | - |
| threadier | 13 | - | - |
| threading | 14 | - | - |
| threapers | 14 | - | - |
| threaping | 15 | - | - |
| threatens | 12 | - | - |
| threatful | 15 | - | - |
| threating | 13 | - | - |
| threeness | 12 | - | - |
| threepeat | 14 | - | - |
| threepers | 14 | - | - |
| threeping | 15 | - | - |
| threequel | 21 | - | - |
| threnetic | 14 | - | - |
| threnodes | 13 | - | - |
| threnodic | 15 | - | - |
| threnoses | 12 | - | - |
| threonine | 12 | a colorless crystalline amino acid found in protein; occurs in the hydrolysates of certain proteins; an essential component of human nutrition | - |
| threshels | 15 | - | - |
| threshers | 15 | - | - |
| thretties | 12 | - | - |
| thridaces | 15 | - | - |
| thridding | 15 | - | - |
| thriftier | 15 | - | - |
| thriftily | 18 | in a thrifty manner | a used towel that he had used and had left thriftily on the ledge below the mirror rather than consign to the linen basket |
| thrillant | 12 | - | - |
| thrillers | 12 | - | - |
| thrillier | 12 | - | - |
| thrissels | 12 | - | - |
| thristing | 13 | - | - |
| thristles | 12 | - | - |
| thrivings | 16 | - | - |
| throatier | 12 | - | - |
| throatily | 15 | - | - |
| throating | 13 | - | - |
| throbbers | 16 | - | - |
| throbless | 14 | - | - |
| thrombins | 16 | - | - |
| thrombose | 16 | become blocked by a thrombus | the blood vessel thrombosed |
| throngful | 16 | - | - |
| thronging | 14 | - | - |
| thronners | 12 | - | - |
| throppled | 17 | - | - |
| thropples | 16 | - | - |
| throstles | 12 | - | - |
| throttled | 13 | - | - |
| throttler | 12 | someone who kills by strangling | - |
| throttles | 12 | - | - |
| throughly | 19 | - | - |
| throwable | 17 | - | - |
| throwdown | 19 | - | - |
| throwings | 16 | - | - |
| throwover | 18 | - | - |
| throwster | 15 | a person who twists silk or rayon filaments into a thread or yarn | - |
| thrummers | 16 | - | - |
| thrummier | 16 | - | - |
| thrumming | 17 | - | - |
| thrupenny | 17 | - | - |
| thrusters | 12 | - | - |
| thrustful | 15 | - | - |
| thrustors | 12 | - | - |
| thrutched | 18 | - | - |
| thrutches | 17 | - | - |
| thuddings | 15 | - | - |
| thuggisms | 16 | - | - |
| thumbhole | 19 | a finger hole made to fit the thumb (as in a bowling ball) | - |
| thumbiest | 16 | - | - |
| thumbkins | 20 | - | - |
| thumbless | 16 | - | - |
| thumblike | 20 | - | - |
| thumbling | 17 | - | - |
| thumbnuts | 16 | - | - |
| thumbpots | 18 | - | - |
| thundered | 14 | - | - |
| thunderer | 13 | an epithet for Jupiter | - |
| thundrous | 13 | - | - |
| thuribles | 14 | - | - |
| thurifers | 15 | - | - |
| thurified | 16 | - | - |
| thurifies | 15 | - | - |
| thwackers | 21 | - | - |
| thwacking | 22 | - | - |
| thwarters | 15 | - | - |
| thylacine | 17 | rare doglike carnivorous marsupial of Tasmania having stripes on its back; probably extinct | - |
| thylakoid | 20 | - | - |
| thymidine | 18 | a nucleoside component of DNA; composed of thymine and deoxyribose | - |
| thymocyte | 22 | - | - |
| thymomata | 19 | - | - |
| thymosins | 17 | - | - |
| thyratron | 15 | - | - |
| thyreoids | 16 | - | - |
| thyristor | 15 | - | - |
| thyroidal | 16 | of or relating to the thyroid gland | thyroidal uptake |
| thyroxine | 22 | hormone produced by the thyroid glands to regulate metabolism by controlling the rate of oxidation in cells | thyroxine is 65% iodine |
| thyroxins | 22 | - | - |
