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15-letter words containing l, o, a, t, h

  • south salt lake — a town in N Utah.
  • southeastwardly — toward the southeast
  • southwestwardly — toward the southwest
  • spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
  • spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
  • spit and polish — great care in maintaining smart appearance and crisp efficiency: The commander was concerned more with spit and polish than with the company's morale.
  • staphylorrhaphy — repair of a cleft palate by means of staphyloplasty and suturing
  • starfish flower — carrion flower (def 2).
  • stigmatophilist — a person who has stigmatophilia
  • strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
  • sweet chocolate — cocoa product with high sugar content
  • sycophantically — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
  • technologically — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • telephotography — photography of distant objects, using a telephoto lens.
  • thalassographer — a person who studies the sea; an oceanographer
  • thalassographic — relating to thalassography
  • thalassotherapy — the use of sea water and marine products as a therapeutic treatment
  • the anglo-irish — the inhabitants of Ireland of English birth or descent
  • the colophonian — a native of Colophon.
  • the common weal — the good of society
  • the cordilleras — the complex of mountain ranges on the W side of the Americas, extending from Alaska to Cape Horn and including the Andes and the Rocky Mountains
  • the daily round — the usual activities of one's day
  • the early hours — If something happens in the early hours, in the small hours, or in the wee hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.
  • the holy family — the infant Jesus, Mary, and St Joseph
  • the jos plateau — a plateau in Nigeria with an average altitude of 1280 metres
  • the kos channel — a strait separating Kos from SW Turkey
  • the last moment — If someone does something at the last moment, they do it at the latest time possible.
  • the lower karoo — one of the two divisions of the Karoo
  • the lower ranks — people who have a low rank in a military organization
  • the other place — (at Oxford University) Cambridge University
  • the paleolithic — the Paleolithic period, subdivided into the Lower (to c. 150,000 b.c.), Middle (to c. 38,000 b.c.), and Upper stages; Old Stone Age
  • the rule of law — the principle that no one is above the law and that everyone must follow the law
  • the small hours — If something happens in the early hours or in the small hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.
  • thermal equator — an imaginary line round the earth running through the point on each meridian with the highest average temperature. It lies mainly to the north because of the larger landmasses and therefore greater summer heating
  • thermal neutron — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
  • thermal reactor — a nuclear reactor in which most of the fission is caused by thermal neutrons
  • thioallyl ether — allyl sulfide.
  • thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • thousand island — of or relating to the Thousand Islands or their inhabitants
  • thyrocalcitonin — calcitonin
  • to fly the flag — If you fly the flag, you show that you are proud of your country, or that you support a particular cause, especially when you are in a foreign country or when few other people do.
  • to get ahold of — to manage to find, contact, or obtain someone or something
  • to grab hold of — Hold is used in expressions such as grab hold of, catch hold of, and get hold of, to indicate that you close your hand tightly around something, for example to stop something moving or falling.
  • to lead the way — If you lead the way along a particular route, you go along it in front of someone in order to show them where to go.
  • toughened glass — glass that has been made stronger using chemical or thermal treatments so that it will not break easily
  • training school — a school that provides training in some art, profession, or vocation.
  • transhistorical — occurring throughout all human history
  • travel brochure — a brochure, often from a travel agency, which advertises holidays, hotels, etc
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