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12-letter words containing h, o, l, e, i

  • thessalonian — of or relating to Thessalonike or its inhabitants.
  • thessalonica — official name of Salonika.
  • thessalonike — official name of Salonika.
  • thessaloníki — official name of Salonika.
  • 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.
  • thiosulphate — any salt of thiosulphuric acid
  • through-line — a theme or idea that runs from the beginning to the end of a book, film, etc
  • title-holder — The title-holder is the person who most recently won a sports competition that is held regularly.
  • to hell with — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
  • to the gills — the respiratory organ of aquatic animals, as fish, that breathe oxygen dissolved in water.
  • toe the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
  • tooth chisel — a stonecutter's chisel having a toothed edge.
  • trefoil arch — an arch with cusplike intrados.
  • triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
  • tricephalous — with three heads
  • trochelminth — any invertebrate of the phylum Trochelminthes (now usually broken up into several phyla), comprising the rotifers, gastrotrichs, and several other forms.
  • unchronicled — not chronicled or recorded
  • unheroically — in an unheroic manner
  • unhospitable — not hospitable
  • unlikelihood — the state of being unlikely; improbability.
  • unmethodical — characterized by lack of method or disorderliness
  • unpolishable — incapable of being made smooth or shiny
  • unrhetorical — not rhetorical; literal; plainspoken
  • villahermosa — a state in SE Mexico, on the Gulf of Campeche. 9783 sq. mi. (25,338 sq. km). Capital: Villahermosa.
  • walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
  • webliography — a list of electronic documents, websites, or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject: a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.
  • west lothian — a historic county in S Scotland.
  • wheel window — a rose window having prominent radiating mullions.
  • whistle-stop — to campaign for political office by traveling around the country, originally by train, stopping at small communities to address voters.
  • white clover — a clover, Trifolium repens, having white flowers, common in pastures and meadows.
  • white liquor — (in making wood pulp for paper) the chemicals used to digest the wood, basically sodium hydroxide and sodium hyposulfite.
  • white poplar — Also called abele. an Old World poplar, Populus alba, widely cultivated in the U.S., having the underside of the leaves covered with a dense silvery-white down.
  • white salmon — the yellowtail, Seriola lalandei.
  • white willow — a willow tree, Salix alba, of Europe and Asia having leaves with pale undersides
  • white-collar — belonging or pertaining to the ranks of office and professional workers whose jobs generally do not involve manual labor or the wearing of a uniform or work clothes.
  • whittle down — To whittle down a group or thing means to gradually make it smaller.
  • whole sister — a sister whose parents are the same as one's own.
  • wigglesworth — Michael, 1631–1705, U.S. theologian and author, born in England.
  • william howe — E(dgar) W(atson) 1853–1937, U.S. novelist and editor.
  • wilton house — a mansion in Wilton in Wiltshire: built for the 1st Earl of Pembroke in the 16th century; rebuilt after a fire in 1647 by Inigo Jones and John Webb; altered in the 19th century by James Wyatt; landscaped grounds include a famous Palladian bridge
  • witch hobble — the hobblebush.
  • withholdment — the act of withholding
  • wolf herring — a voracious clupeoid fish, Chirocentrus dorab, inhabiting the tropical Indian and Pacific oceans.
  • wolf whistle — a wolf call made by whistling, often characterized by two sliding sounds, a peal up to a higher note and then one up to a lower note and down.
  • wolf-whistle — If someone wolf-whistles, they make a whistling sound with a short rising note and a longer falling note. Some men wolf-whistle at a woman to show that they think she is attractive, and some women find this offensive.
  • wonder child — an unusually intelligent or talented child; prodigy; wunderkind.
  • yellow birch — a North American birch, Betula alleghaniensis (or B. lutea), having yellowish or silvery gray bark.
  • yellow light — a yellow traffic light, usually preceding a signal halting traffic in a particular direction.
  • zootechnical — of or relating to zootechny
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