12-letter words containing t, e, l, d, i, a
- revictualled — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- right-angled — A right-angled triangle has one angle that is a right angle.
- rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
- saddle joint — (on a sill, coping, or the like) a vertical joint raised above the level of the washes on each side.
- saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
- sailing date — the date that a ship or boat departs on a sailing voyage
- sanctifiedly — in a sanctified manner
- sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
- see daylight — the light of day: At the end of the tunnel they could see daylight.
- seed capital — small sum invested in new business
- shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
- shirt-tailed — (of a garment) having a shirt-tail
- sialadenitis — inflammation of one or more of the salivary glands.
- slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
- slide-action — (of a rifle or shotgun) having a lever that when slid back and forth ejects the empty case and cocks and reloads the piece.
- sliding seat — a rower's seat that rides on wheels in metal tracks fastened to the boat's frame, allowing the seat to slide back and forth, thereby tapping the rower's leg strength to maximize the stroke.
- snail darter — a tan, striped, snail-eating perch, Percina tanasi, 3 inches (7.5 cm) long, occurring only in the Tennessee River: a threatened species.
- spider plant — Also called ribbon plant. a plant, Chlorophytum comosum, of the lily family, native to southern Africa, that has long, narrow leaves and clusters of white flowers and is widely cultivated as a houseplant.
- spotted tail — (Sinte-galeshka) 1833?–81, Brulé Sioux leader.
- stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- strait-laced — excessively strict in conduct or morality; puritanical; prudish: strait-laced censors.
- stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
- subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
- subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
- synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
- table tripod — a low mount or stand for a camera.
- tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
- talking head — Television Slang. a closeup picture of a person who is talking, especially as a participant in a talk show.
- testiculated — like a testicle, esp in shape
- the disabled — those who are physically or mentally disabled; the handicapped
- the mainland — a particular landmass as viewed from a nearby island with which it has close links, such as Great Britain as viewed from Northern Ireland or continental Australia as viewed from Tasmania
- the midlands — the central counties of England, including Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, the former West Midlands metropolitan county, and Worcestershire: characterized by manufacturing industries
- 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.
- tidal energy — energy obtained by harnessing tidal power
- tidal volume — the volume of water associated with a rising tide
- tiger lizard — either of two lacertid lizards, Nucras intertexta and N. tessellata, of southern Africa, having a gray or brown body marked with black spots and bars.
- tone dialing — a system of calling telephone numbers wherein tones of differing pitch corresponding to the digits in the number called are electronically generated by manipulating pushbuttons (contrasted with pulse dialing).
- transdialect — to translate (speech, writing, etc.) into a different dialect.
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- trial docket — docket (def 1).
- trial period — time during which sth can be evaluated
- trial-docket — Also called trial docket. a list of cases in court for trial, or the names of the parties who have cases pending.
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- tropicalized — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- ultrarefined — having been refined exceptionally well or thoroughly
- un-laminated — formed of or set in thin layers or laminae.
- un-liberated — to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
- unacclimated — not accustomed or adapted to
- unadmittedly — to give right or means of entrance to: This ticket admits two people.