12-letter words containing t, h, e, i, l, r
- 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.
- lethargizing — Present participle of lethargize.
- liberty hall — a place or condition of complete liberty
- liberty ship — a slow cargo ship built in large numbers for the U.S. merchant marine during World War II and having a capacity of about 11,000 deadweight tons.
- liddell hart — (Sir) Basil Henry, 1895–1970, English military historian and strategist.
- life history — the series of living phenomena exhibited by an organism in the course of its development from inception to death.
- light bomber — a small airplane designed to carry light bomb loads relatively short distances, especially one having a gross loaded weight of less than 100,000 pounds (45,000 kg).
- light breeze — a wind of 4–7 miles per hour (2–3 m/sec). Compare breeze1 (def 2).
- light bridge — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- light-haired — having light-coloured hair
- lighter fuel — the fuel used in a cigarette or cigar lighter
- lighthearted — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
- 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.
- lithographed — Simple past tense and past participle of lithograph.
- lithographer — a person who works at lithography.
- 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 rhody — Rhode Island (used as a nickname).
- live through — experience or endure
- live yoghurt — yoghurt that contains live bacteria
- loir-et-cher — a department in central France. 2479 sq. mi. (6420 sq. km). Capital: Blois.
- luteotrophic — affecting the corpus luteum.
- mercy flight — an aircraft flight to bring a seriously ill or injured person to hospital from an isolated community
- metaphorical — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
- motherliness — The property of being motherly.
- multiwarhead — (of a missile) capable of carrying several independent warheads
- muscle shirt — Slang. a T-shirt having short sleeves or no sleeves.
- mythologizer — One who, or that which, mythologizes.
- nephrologist — A physician whose speciality is nephrology.
- netherlandic — Dutch (def 7).
- neutrophiles — (of a cell or cell part) having an affinity for neutral dyes.
- neutrophilic — (of a cell or its contents) readily stained only by neutral dyes.
- night letter — former name of overnight telegram. Abbreviation: NL.
- nightclubber — One who visits a nightclub.
- nightcrawler — An earthworm of the species Lumbricus terrestris, known for its large size and nocturnal surfacings.
- nonheritable — Not heritable.
- noteworthily — worthy of notice or attention; notable; remarkable: a noteworthy addition to our collection of rare books.
- orthopedical — (American spelling) Alternative form of orthopaedical.