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12-letter words containing d, i, e, l

  • tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
  • talking head — Television Slang. a closeup picture of a person who is talking, especially as a participant in a talk show.
  • telemedicine — the diagnosis and treatment of patients in remote areas using medical information, as x-rays or television pictures, transmitted over long distances, especially by satellite.
  • testiculated — like a testicle, esp in shape
  • the disabled — those who are physically or mentally disabled; the handicapped
  • the good oil — true or reliable facts, information, etc
  • the highveld — the high-altitude grassland region of E South Africa
  • the mainland — a particular landmass as viewed from a nearby island with which it has close links, such as Great Britain as viewed from Northern Ireland or continental Australia as viewed from Tasmania
  • the midlands — the central counties of England, including Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, the former West Midlands metropolitan county, and Worcestershire: characterized by manufacturing industries
  • the old bill — policemen collectively or in general
  • thick-lipped — having thick lips
  • thioaldehyde — any of a class of compounds formed by the action of hydrogen sulfide on aldehydes, and regarded as aldehydes with the oxygen replaced by sulfur.
  • third eyelid — nictitating membrane.
  • tickled pink — to touch or stroke lightly with the fingers, a feather, etc., so as to excite a tingling or itching sensation in; titillate.
  • tidal energy — energy obtained by harnessing tidal power
  • tidal volume — the volume of water associated with a rising tide
  • tiger lizard — either of two lacertid lizards, Nucras intertexta and N. tessellata, of southern Africa, having a gray or brown body marked with black spots and bars.
  • tight-lipped — speaking very little; taciturn; close-mouthed.
  • timberdoodle — the American woodcock, Philohela minor.
  • tin-fluoride — stannous fluoride.
  • title-holder — The title-holder is the person who most recently won a sports competition that is held regularly.
  • tone dialing — a system of calling telephone numbers wherein tones of differing pitch corresponding to the digits in the number called are electronically generated by manipulating pushbuttons (contrasted with pulse dialing).
  • transdialect — to translate (speech, writing, etc.) into a different dialect.
  • tredecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 42 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 78 zeros.
  • triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
  • trial docket — docket (def 1).
  • trial period — time during which sth can be evaluated
  • trial-docket — Also called trial docket. a list of cases in court for trial, or the names of the parties who have cases pending.
  • trickle-down — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
  • triglyceride — an ester obtained from glycerol by the esterification of three hydroxyl groups with fatty acids, naturally occurring in animal and vegetable tissues: an important energy source forming much of the fat stored by the body.
  • triple-digit — being in the hundreds or in a figure or amount from 100 through 999: triple-digit budget figures.
  • tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
  • tropicalized — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
  • tunnel diode — an extremely stable semiconductor diode, having a very narrow highly doped p-n junction, in which electrons travel across the junction by means of the tunnel effect
  • twig girdler — a person or thing that girdles.
  • two-cylinder — (of an engine) having two cylinders
  • ultrarefined — having been refined exceptionally well or thoroughly
  • un-inducible — to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
  • un-laminated — formed of or set in thin layers or laminae.
  • un-liberated — to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
  • unacclimated — not accustomed or adapted to
  • unadmittedly — to give right or means of entrance to: This ticket admits two people.
  • unaffiliated — being in close formal or informal association; related: a letter sent to all affiliated clubs; a radio network and its affiliated local stations.
  • unalleviated — to make easier to endure; lessen; mitigate: to alleviate sorrow; to alleviate pain.
  • unassistedly — in an unassisted manner
  • unbridgeable — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
  • uncalibrated — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
  • unchronicled — not chronicled or recorded
  • uncirculated — to move in a circle or circuit; move or pass through a circuit back to the starting point: Blood circulates throughout the body.
  • unclassified — not assigned to a class or category; not arranged according to characteristics: Reported instances fall into two main types, with a few unclassified anomalies.
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