12-letter words containing t, h, e, g, n, l
- hedge nettle — a slender-leafed, hairy plant, Stachys palustris, of the mint family, abundant along roadsides and in fields and marshes, having clusters of tubular, purple flowers on a spike.
- heeling tank — either of two lateral ballast tanks permitting an icebreaker to heel and crush ice to either side.
- hesitatingly — In a hesitating manner.
- knightliness — Knightly behaviour; chivalry.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- lethargizing — Present participle of lethargize.
- light client — thin client
- light engine — a railway locomotive in motion without drawing any carriages or wagons
- light-handed — short-handed.
- light-minded — having or showing a lack of serious purpose, attitude, etc.; frivolous; trifling: to be in a light-minded mood.
- lithogenesis — (geology) The formation of sedimentary rock.
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- long clothes — dress-like garments formerly worn by a baby
- long-sighted — farsighted; hypermetropic.
- manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
- mergenthaler — Ottmar [ot-mahr;; German awt-mahr] /ˈɒt mɑr;; German ˈɔt mɑr/ (Show IPA), 1854–99, U.S. inventor of the Linotype, born in Germany.
- nephrologist — A physician whose speciality is nephrology.
- new theology — a movement away from orthodox or fundamentalist theological thought, originating in the late 19th century and aimed at reconciling modern concepts and discoveries in science and philosophy with theology.
- night letter — former name of overnight telegram. Abbreviation: NL.
- night people — a person who prefers to stay up late or who functions best during the nighttime hours.
- nightclothes — Clothes worn to bed.
- nightclubber — One who visits a nightclub.
- nightcrawler — An earthworm of the species Lumbricus terrestris, known for its large size and nocturnal surfacings.
- nightingales — Plural form of nightingale.
- nothing like — totally dissimilar to, completely unlike
- ontotheology — The ontology of God and/or the theology of being; a tradition of philosophical theology first prominent among medieval scholastics, notably w Duns Scotus.
- overlengthen — to extend excessively
- photogelatin — pertaining to any photographic process in which gelatin is used to receive or transfer a print.
- 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.
- phylogenetic — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
- right-angled — A right-angled triangle has one angle that is a right angle.
- self-heating — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
- 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.
- skirt length — the length of someone's skirt
- slant height — (of a right circular cone) the distance from the vertex to any point on the circumference of the base.
- slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- snaggletooth — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
- sponge cloth — any cloth loosely woven of coarse yarn to produce a spongy look or texture, especially one constructed in honeycomb weave.
- stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
- strengthless — lacking strength.
- stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
- stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.
- talking head — Television Slang. a closeup picture of a person who is talking, especially as a participant in a talk show.
- technologies — the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science.
- technologist — a person who specializes in technology.
- technologize — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
- telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
- teleshopping — electronic shopping via videotex or other interactive information service.