12-letter words containing t, e, l, h
- light engine — a railway locomotive in motion without drawing any carriages or wagons
- light-footed — stepping lightly or nimbly; light of foot; nimble.
- light-haired — having light-coloured hair
- light-handed — short-handed.
- light-headed — giddy, dizzy, or delirious: After two drinks Pat began to feel lightheaded.
- light-minded — having or showing a lack of serious purpose, attitude, etc.; frivolous; trifling: to be in a light-minded mood.
- light-weight — light displacement.
- lighter fuel — the fuel used in a cigarette or cigar lighter
- lighthearted — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
- lightweights — Plural form of lightweight.
- lion-hearted — exceptionally courageous or brave.
- liothyronine — A form of thyroid hormone used to treat hypothyroidism and myxedema coma.
- lisle thread — a fine, high-twisted and hard-twisted cotton thread, at least two-ply, used for hosiery, gloves, etc.
- listenership — the people or number of people who listen to a radio station, record, type of music, etc.: The station has a listenership of 200,000.
- lithia water — a mineral water, natural or artificial, containing lithium salts.
- lithogenesis — (geology) The formation of sedimentary rock.
- lithographed — Simple past tense and past participle of lithograph.
- lithographer — a person who works at lithography.
- lithopedions — Plural form of lithopedion.
- 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
- lithospheric — Of or pertaining to the lithosphere.
- lithotripter — a device used for fragmenting kidney stones with ultrasound waves.
- lithotritise — to perform a lithotrity
- lithotritize — to perform a lithotrity on
- little horse — the constellation Equuleus.
- little hours — the canonical hours of prime, terce, sext, and nones in the divine office
- little minch — a sea channel between Isle of Skye and the central Outer Hebrides Islands, Scotland, connecting the Minch, or North Minch (N), with the Sea of the Hebrides. 14 to 20 miles (23 to 32 km) wide.
- little rhody — Rhode Island (used as a nickname).
- live through — experience or endure
- live yoghurt — yoghurt that contains live bacteria
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- loathfulness — (rare) The condition of being loathful; reluctance.
- lobster moth — a large sombre-hued prominent moth, Stauropus fagi, that when at rest resembles dead leaves. The modified thoracic legs of the larva, carried curled over its body, look like a lobster's claw
- loir-et-cher — a department in central France. 2479 sq. mi. (6420 sq. km). Capital: Blois.
- long clothes — dress-like garments formerly worn by a baby
- long-sighted — farsighted; hypermetropic.
- lophophorate — Of or relating to small aquatic invertebrates belonging to a group of phyla characterized by the possession of lophophores. They include bryozoans, brachiopods, and phoronids.
- loud-mouthed — If you describe someone as loud-mouthed, you are critical of them because they talk a lot, especially in an unpleasant, offensive, or stupid way.
- lower depths — a play (1902) by Maxim Gorki.
- lunch-bucket — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
- luncheonette — a small restaurant or lunchroom where light meals are served.
- luteal phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, lasting about two weeks, from ovulation to the beginning of the next menstrual flow.
- luteotrophic — affecting the corpus luteum.
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- lymph system — Anatomy, Zoology. the system by which lymph is returned from the cells to the blood and by which white blood cells are produced in response to inflammation or presence of antigens; in mammals, the system includes the lymph glands, vessels and sinuses through which lymph is carried, and lymphoid tissues, as bone marrow and the thymus.
- lyophilizate — A lyophilizate is a freeze-dried product.
- lysolecithin — any compound of lecithin produced by the removal of one of the fatty acid groups by hydrolysis
- machicolated — Having machicolations.
- machine bolt — a threaded fastener, used with a nut for connecting metal parts, having a thread diameter of about 1/4 inch (6.4 mm) or more and a square or hexagonal head for tightening by a wrench.
- machine tool — a power-operated machine, as a lathe, used for general cutting and shaping of metal and other substances.