12-letter words containing s, i, t, e, l
- fruitfulness — producing good results; beneficial; profitable: fruitful investigations.
- fujita scale — a scale for expressing the intensity of a tornado, ranging from F0 (light damage) to F5 (incredible damage)
- fulfillments — Plural form of fulfillment.
- functionless — Lacking a function.
- galactosemia — an inherited disorder characterized by the inability to metabolize galactose and requiring a galactose-free diet to avoid consequent mental retardation and eye, spleen, and liver abnormalities.
- galactosides — Plural form of galactoside.
- gallivanters — Plural form of gallivanter.
- geanticlines — Plural form of geanticline.
- gefilte fish — a forcemeat of boned fish, especially such freshwater fish as carp, pike, or whitefish, blended with eggs, matzo meal, and seasoning, shaped into balls or sticks and simmered in a vegetable broth, and often served chilled.
- gelatigenous — (archaic) Producing or yielding gelatin.
- generalities — Plural form of generality.
- gentilitious — relating to a gens
- gesticulated — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- gesticulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gesticulate.
- gesticulator — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- gila monster — a large, venomous lizard, Heloderma suspectum, of the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico, covered with beadlike scales of yellow, orange, and black.
- glacis plate — the frontal plate armour on a tank
- glisteningly — In a glistening manner.
- glomerulitis — inflammation of the glomeruli of the kidney.
- glossematics — a school of linguistic analysis developed by Louis Hjelmslev (1899–1965) in Copenhagen in the 1930s based on the study of the distribution of glossemes.
- goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
- great plains — a semiarid region E of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. and Canada.
- grossularite — a mineral, calcium aluminum garnet, Ca 3 Al 2 Si 3 O 12 , occurring in gray-white to pinkish crystals.
- gynecologist — a physician specializing in gynecology. Abbreviation: GYN, gyn.
- habitualness — The characteristic of being habitual.
- haematolysis — Haemolysis.
- half section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- half-section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- hallucinates — to have hallucinations.
- helianthuses — Plural form of helianthus.
- heliotropism — heliotropic tendency or growth.
- hellgramites — Plural form of hellgramite.
- hematologist — the study of the nature, function, and diseases of the blood and of blood-forming organs.
- henley-shirt — a short- or long-sleeved pullover sport shirt, usually of cotton, with a round neckband and an often covered neckline placket.
- heortologist — a person who studies heortology
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- hesitatingly — In a hesitating manner.
- heteroclisis — (grammar) The presence of two or more classes of inflection in the inflectional paradigm of a noun, verb etc.
- heteroclites — Plural form of heteroclite.
- heteroplasia — the replacement of normal cells by abnormal cells, as in cancer.
- heterosocial — relating to or denoting mixed-sex social relationships
- higher still — a system of post-Standard Grade qualifications offered at five levels including Higher and Advanced Higher
- highlighters — Plural form of highlighter.
- hit the silk — the soft, lustrous fiber obtained as a filament from the cocoon of the silkworm.
- hobble skirt — a woman's skirt that is very narrow at the bottom, causing the wearer to walk with short, mincing steps.
- holmes light — a canister, attached to a life buoy or float, containing calcium carbonate and calcium phosphide, which ignite spontaneously on contact with the water, emitting conspicuous fire and smoke.
- holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
- holy thistle — lady's-thistle.
- horse pistol — a large pistol formerly carried by horsemen.
- horse trials — a competitive sporting event at which riders have to show their skill in dressage, show-jumping, and cross-country