12-letter words containing s, e, t, h, l, i
- little hours — the canonical hours of prime, terce, sext, and nones in the divine office
- long-sighted — farsighted; hypermetropic.
- lysolecithin — any compound of lecithin produced by the removal of one of the fatty acid groups by hydrolysis
- malt whiskey — Malt whiskey or malt is whiskey that is made from malt.
- mesolecithal — centrolecithal.
- mesothelioma — a malignant tumor of the covering of the lung or the lining of the pleural and abdominal cavities, often associated with exposure to asbestos.
- metal polish — cleaning fluid designed to clean, polish or add shine to metal
- metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- milk thistle — flowering plant
- mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
- motherliness — The property of being motherly.
- muscle shirt — Slang. a T-shirt having short sleeves or no sleeves.
- musk thistle — a composite plant, Carduus nutans, having heads of nodding, rose-purple flowers, introduced into the U.S. from Eurasia.
- mythologizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mythologize.
- nephrologist — A physician whose speciality is nephrology.
- neutrophiles — (of a cell or cell part) having an affinity for neutral dyes.
- nightclothes — Clothes worn to bed.
- nightingales — Plural form of nightingale.
- oligochaetes — Plural form of oligochaete.
- on the tiles — on a spree, esp of drinking or debauchery
- pennywhistle — a cheap toy whistle orig. sold for a penny
- penthesileia — the daughter of Ares and queen of the Amazons, whom she led to the aid of Troy. She was slain by Achilles
- phillumenist — a collector of matchbooks and matchboxes.
- phlebotomist — a specialist in phlebotomy.
- photoelastic — displaying photoelasticity; of or relating to photoelasticity
- photorealism — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
- phrenologist — a psychological theory or analytical method based on the belief that certain mental faculties and character traits are indicated by the configurations of the skull.
- phylacteries — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
- pitch chisel — a broad-edged chisel for cutting plane surfaces on stones.
- plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- pleased with — satisfied or content with
- polish wheat — a wheat, Triticum polonicum, grown chiefly in S Europe, N Africa, and Turkestan.
- polytheistic — pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to polytheism, the doctrine that there is more than one god or many gods: Science thrived in the polytheistic culture of ancient Greece.
- poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
- preestablish — to establish beforehand.
- psephologist — A psephologist studies how people vote in elections.
- re-establish — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
- reality show — A reality show is a type of television program that aims to show how ordinary people behave in everyday life, or in situations, often created by the program makers, which are intended to represent everyday life.
- reichsthaler — a silver thaler of Germany, originally issued in 1566; rix-dollar.
- relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
- rheumatismal — of or relating to rheumatism
- rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
- saint helena — Saint, c247–c330, mother of Constantine I.
- saint helens — a city in Merseyside, in NW England, near Liverpool.
- saint helier — a British island in the English Channel: the largest of the Channel Islands. 44 sq. mi. (116 sq. km). Capital: St. Helier.
- saint phalle — Niki de [nik-ee duh;; French nee-kee duh] /ˈnɪk i də;; French niˈki də/ (Show IPA), 1930–2002, French sculptor and painter.
- saint-mihiel — a town in NE France, on the Meuse River, NW of Nancy: captured by American forces 1918.
- schindyletic — relating to the joint in which one bone is received into the cleft or slit of another bone
- scratch file — A scratch file is a temporary computer file which you use as a work area or as a store while a program is operating.
- scratch line — a line that marks the start of a race.