12-letter words containing a, n, t, o, e, l
- tongue-blade — a broad, thin piece of wood used by doctors to hold down the patient's tongue during an examination of the mouth and throat.
- torchon lace — a bobbin-made linen or cotton lace with loosely twisted threads in simple, open patterns.
- tornado belt — the part of the U.S. in which tornadoes occur most frequently, roughly the area within a 500-mile (805-km) radius of southern Missouri.
- toynbee hall — a residential settlement in East London, named after Arnold Toynbee (1852–83), a British economist and social reformer
- transponible — capable of being transposed.
- trillionaire — a person whose assets are worth over a trillion of the monetary units of his or her country
- true anomaly — the anomaly of a planet; its angular distance from perihelion or aphelion.
- tyrolean hat — a man's soft felt hat with a somewhat conical crown that is flat and creased at the top, a narrow brim partially turned up, and, usually, a feather for decoration
- ultramontane — beyond the mountains.
- ultraviolent — characterized by or pertaining to extreme acts of violence
- unactionable — furnishing ground for a lawsuit.
- unapologetic — containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury, etc.: An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.
- uncatalogued — not added to or detailed in a catalogue
- uncoagulated — Obsolete. coagulated.
- uncollegiate — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
- uncomplacent — pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied: The voters are too complacent to change the government.
- uncomplicate — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
- uncomputable — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
- unconfutable — to prove to be false, invalid, or defective; disprove: to confute an argument.
- uncorrelated — to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income.
- undefoliated — having the leaves left intact
- unelaborated — not elaborated
- unfathomable — not able to be fathomed, or completely understood; incomprehensible: heroism in the face of unfathomable conflict.
- unformulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- unhospitable — not hospitable
- unifoliolate — compound in structure yet having only one leaflet, as the orange.
- uninoculated — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- unipotential — Electricity, Electronics. having uniform electric potential throughout, as a hot cathode (unipotential cathode) indirectly heated by a separate heater circuit so that there is no lateral change of voltage across the cathode due to resistance to a heating current.
- unmethodical — characterized by lack of method or disorderliness
- unnegotiable — capable of being negotiated: a negotiable salary demand.
- unnoticeable — attracting notice or attention; capable of being noticed: a noticeable lack of interest.
- unnoticeably — attracting notice or attention; capable of being noticed: a noticeable lack of interest.
- unobtainable — to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
- unornamental — not decorative
- unpoetically — in an unpoetic manner
- unprofitable — being without profit; not showing or turning a profit: a series of unprofitable ventures.
- unreportable — not able to be reported, relayed, or spoken of
- unrestorable — to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish: to restore order.
- unrhetorical — not rhetorical; literal; plainspoken
- urinogenital — genitourinary.
- vegetational — all the plants or plant life of a place, taken as a whole: the vegetation of the Nile valley.
- velarization — to pronounce with velar articulation.
- ventral root — a nerve fiber bundle that emerges from either side of the spinal cord and joins with a complementary bundle to form each spinal nerve in the series of spinal nerves: the root at the rear of the spinal cord (dorsal root or sensory root) conveys sensations to the central nervous system, and the root at the front (ventral root or motor root) conveys impulses to the muscles.
- ventrodorsal — pertaining to the ventral and dorsal aspects of the body; extending from the ventral to the dorsal side.
- ventromedial — relating to both the ventral and medial surfaces, or to the front and to the middle
- vesiculation — characterized by or covered with vesicles.
- video rental — the system of renting films on video or DVD for a period of time in exchange for payment
- wall-mounted — hung on a wall
- waterfowling — the sport of shooting waterfowl
- waterlogging — to cause (a boat, ship, etc.) to become uncontrollable as a result of flooding.