12-letter words containing s, l, e, u, t, h
- laureateship — a person who has been honored for achieving distinction in a particular field or with a particular award: a Nobel laureate.
- lectureships — Plural form of lectureship.
- leiotrichous — Having smooth hair.
- lithospermum — any annual or perennial herbs and small shrubs of the genus lithospermum, of the borage family, native to Europe, N America, and northern Asia, and having white, blue, or yellow flowers
- little hours — the canonical hours of prime, terce, sext, and nones in the divine office
- loathfulness — (rare) The condition of being loathful; reluctance.
- luteal phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, lasting about two weeks, from ovulation to the beginning of the next menstrual flow.
- manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
- mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
- 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.
- neutrophiles — (of a cell or cell part) having an affinity for neutral dyes.
- old chestnut — old saying, cliché
- phillumenist — a collector of matchbooks and matchboxes.
- plattdeutsch — the Low German vernacular dialects spoken in northern Germany.
- polychaetous — of or relating to the genus Polychaeta
- preslaughter — of the period before slaughter (of animals)
- put flesh on — If you put flesh on something, you add details and more information to it.
- pyrosulphate — any salt of pyrosulphuric acid
- reupholstery — the materials used to cushion and cover furniture.
- rheumatismal — of or relating to rheumatism
- rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- sell-through — quantity of direct sales made
- shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
- shut-in well — confined to one's home, a hospital, etc., as from illness.
- shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
- 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
- slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
- slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
- slothfulness — sluggardly; indolent; lazy.
- soul brother — a black male, especially a fellow black male.
- south euclid — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- south hadley — a city in W Massachusetts.
- south platte — a river flowing NE from central Colorado to the Platte River in W Nebraska. 424 miles (683 km) long.
- stealthfully — secret, clandestine, or surreptitious procedure.
- subthreshold — (of a stimulus) too weak to produce a response.
- super-sleuth — a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.
- superathlete — a highly accomplished athlete, an exceptional athlete
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- thankfulness — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
- the absolute — ultimate reality regarded as uncaused, unmodified, unified and complete, timeless, etc.
- the bushveld — an area of low altitude in N South Africa, having scrub vegetation
- the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
- the silurian — the Silurian period or rock system
- the snuffles — a condition characterized by snuffling
- the struggle — the radical and armed opposition to apartheid, esp by the military wings of the ANC and the PAC
- the troubles — political unrest or public disturbances
- the-sea-gull — a play (1896) by Anton Chekhov.