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12-letter words containing e, n, a, t, h, l

  • sea elephant — elephant seal.
  • self-heating — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • shoot a line — to try to create a false image, as by boasting or exaggerating
  • slant height — (of a right circular cone) the distance from the vertex to any point on the circumference of the base.
  • slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
  • slot machine — a gambling machine operated by inserting coins into a slot and pulling a handle that activates a set of spinning symbols on wheels, the final alignment of which determines the payoff that is released into a receptacle at the bottom.
  • snaggletooth — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
  • sphacelation — the process of mortification
  • sphincterial — relating to a sphincter
  • stealthiness — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
  • stenothermal — (of animals or plants) able to exist only within a narrow range of temperature
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
  • stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
  • synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
  • talking head — Television Slang. a closeup picture of a person who is talking, especially as a participant in a talk show.
  • technicality — technical character.
  • technicalize — to make technical
  • technobabble — incomprehensible technical language or jargon.
  • technophilia — a person who loves or is enthusiastic about advanced technology.
  • telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
  • telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
  • tenochtitlan — the capital of the Aztec empire: founded in 1325; destroyed by the Spaniards in 1521; now the site of Mexico City.
  • tenths-place — next after ninth; being the ordinal number for ten.
  • thankfulness — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
  • the alliance — the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party acting or regarded as a political entity from 1981 to 1988
  • the analects — a collection of Confucius' teachings
  • the antilles — a group of islands in the Caribbean
  • the galilean — an epithet of Jesus Christ
  • the lothians — three historic counties of SE central Scotland (now council areas): East Lothian, West Lothian, and Midlothian (including Edinburgh)
  • the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
  • 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 saltsjön — an inlet of the Baltic Sea in Sweden
  • the silurian — the Silurian period or rock system
  • theory-laden — (of an expression) capable of being understood only within the context of a specific theory, as for example superego, which requires the apparatus of Freudian theory in explanation
  • thermal unit — a unit of heat energy or of the equivalent of heat energy in work.
  • thermohaline — relating to both the temperature and salinity of ocean water
  • thessalonian — of or relating to Thessalonike or its inhabitants.
  • thessalonica — official name of Salonika.
  • thessalonike — official name of Salonika.
  • thessaloníki — official name of Salonika.
  • thunderflash — a pyrotechnic device which is noisy, but not dangerous, and which is used in military exercises
  • toe and heel — a technique used by racing drivers while changing gear on sharp bends, in which the brake is operated by the toe (or heel) of the right foot while the heel (or toe) simultaneously operates the accelerator
  • torchon lace — a bobbin-made linen or cotton lace with loosely twisted threads in simple, open patterns.
  • toynbee hall — a residential settlement in East London, named after Arnold Toynbee (1852–83), a British economist and social reformer
  • tragelaphine — of or relating to a tragelaph
  • transleithan — beyond the river Leitha, which once formed part of the boundary between Austria and Hungary
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