12-letter words containing h, o, l, e, i
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- shingle roof — a roof covered with thin rectangular tiles, esp made of wood, that are laid with others in overlapping rows
- shoo-fly pie — an open pie filled with a sweet crumb and molasses mixture and baked.
- shoot a line — to try to create a false image, as by boasting or exaggerating
- short splice — a splice used when an increased thickness of the united rope is not objectionable, made by unlaying the rope ends a certain distance, uniting them so that their strands overlap, then tucking each alternately over and under others several times.
- siderophilic — having characteristics of siderophile
- silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
- silhouettist — a creator of silhouette portraits
- siphonostele — a hollow tube of vascular tissue enclosing a pith and embedded in ground tissue.
- slobbishness — the state or characteristic of being a slob
- 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.
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- solzhenitsyn — Alexander or Aleksandr (Isayevich) [al-ig-zan-der ee-sahy-uh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr ee-sah-yi-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər iˈsaɪ ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr iˈsɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1918–2008, Russian novelist: Nobel prize 1970; in the U.S. 1974–94.
- sothic cycle — (in the ancient Egyptian calendar) a period of 1460 Sothic years.
- soufflé dish — A dish for making souffles
- south euclid — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- sphacelation — the process of mortification
- spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
- splotchiness — the state or condition of being splotchy
- stegophilist — a person who enjoys climbing up the outside of buildings
- stretch limo — A stretch limo is a very long and luxurious car in which a rich, famous, or important person is driven somewhere.
- stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.
- strobe light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
- strobe-light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
- strophiolate — having a strophiole
- sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
- sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
- technicolour — brightly, showily, or garishly coloured; vividly noticeable
- technologies — the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science.
- technologist — a person who specializes in technology.
- technologize — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
- technophilia — a person who loves or is enthusiastic about advanced technology.
- teleshopping — electronic shopping via videotex or other interactive information service.
- 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.
- telolecithal — having an accumulation of yolk near the vegetal pole, as the large-yolked eggs or ova of reptiles and birds.
- tenochtitlan — the capital of the Aztec empire: founded in 1325; destroyed by the Spaniards in 1521; now the site of Mexico City.
- the evil one — the devil; Satan
- the good oil — true or reliable facts, information, etc
- the likes of — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
- the lothians — three historic counties of SE central Scotland (now council areas): East Lothian, West Lothian, and Midlothian (including Edinburgh)
- the old bill — policemen collectively or in general
- the olympics — the Olympic Games
- the pliocene — the Pliocene epoch or rock series
- the solimões — the Brazilian name for the Amazon from the Peruvian border to the Rio Negro
- themistocles — 527?–460? b.c, Athenian statesman.
- theocratical — a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities.
- theophylline — a white, crystalline, poisonous alkaloid, C 7 H 8 N 4 O 2 , an isomer of theobromine, extracted from tea leaves or produced synthetically: used to relieve bronchial spasms, in the treatment of certain heart conditions, and as a diuretic.
- thermohaline — relating to both the temperature and salinity of ocean water
- thermolabile — subject to destruction or loss of characteristic properties by the action of moderate heat, as certain toxins and enzymes (opposed to thermostable).
- thermophilic — growing best in a warm environment.