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12-letter words containing t, h, e, i, l, r

  • street child — Street children are homeless children who live outdoors in a city and live by begging or stealing.
  • stretch limo — A stretch limo is a very long and luxurious car in which a rich, famous, or important person is driven somewhere.
  • stretch mill — a mill for rolling and stretching seamless tubes, the rolls of each successive stand operating more quickly than those of the preceding.
  • 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.
  • strobe light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
  • strobe-light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
  • strophiolate — having a strophiole
  • tablet chair — a chair with one arm extending and expanding into a writing surface.
  • tactile hair — any highly sensitive hair of an animal, as the whiskers of a cat or hairs on a hedgehog's snout.
  • tail feather — one of the feathers making up a bird's tail
  • technicolour — brightly, showily, or garishly coloured; vividly noticeable
  • téléphérique — a cableway
  • telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
  • terephthalic — relating to, designating, or derived from terephthalic acid or its derivatives
  • the crucible — a Sheffield theatre, venue of the annual world professional snooker championship
  • the flickers — the cinema
  • the kalahari — an extensive arid plateau of South Africa, Namibia, and Botswana. Area: 260 000 sq km (100 000 sq miles)
  • the military — the armed services (esp the army)
  • the silurian — the Silurian period or rock system
  • the whirlies — illness induced by excessive use of alcohol or drugs
  • theatrically — of or relating to the theater or dramatic presentations: theatrical performances.
  • theocratical — a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities.
  • therein lies — When you say therein lies a situation or problem, you mean that an existing situation has caused that situation or problem.
  • thermal unit — a unit of heat energy or of the equivalent of heat energy in work.
  • thermalgesia — pain caused by heat.
  • thermohaline — relating to both the temperature and salinity of ocean water
  • thermolabile — subject to destruction or loss of characteristic properties by the action of moderate heat, as certain toxins and enzymes (opposed to thermostable).
  • thermophilic — growing best in a warm environment.
  • thimbleberry — any of several American raspberries bearing a thimble-shaped fruit, especially the black raspberry, Rubus occidentalis.
  • third eyelid — nictitating membrane.
  • thirteenthly — in the thirteenth place
  • through-line — a theme or idea that runs from the beginning to the end of a book, film, etc
  • title-holder — The title-holder is the person who most recently won a sports competition that is held regularly.
  • tragelaphine — of or relating to a tragelaph
  • transleithan — beyond the river Leitha, which once formed part of the boundary between Austria and Hungary
  • travel light — If you travel light, you travel without taking much luggage.
  • trefoil arch — an arch with cusplike intrados.
  • triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
  • tricephalous — with three heads
  • trimethylene — cyclopropane.
  • triple rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
  • trochelminth — any invertebrate of the phylum Trochelminthes (now usually broken up into several phyla), comprising the rotifers, gastrotrichs, and several other forms.
  • uncharitable — deficient in charity; unkind; harsh; unforgiving; censorious; merciless: an uncharitable attitude; an uncharitable neighbor.
  • unhysterical — not showing or suggesting any hysteria; controlled; sensible; calm;
  • unrhetorical — not rhetorical; literal; plainspoken
  • water shield — Also called water target. an aquatic plant, Brasenia schreberi, of the water lily family, having purple flowers, floating, elliptic leaves, and a jellylike coating on the underwater stems and roots.
  • weather girl — A weather girl is a young woman who presents weather forecasts at regular times on television or radio.
  • weightlifter — (weightlifting) A person who competes for maximum weight lifted in a series of specific lifts.
  • welsh rabbit — a dish of melted cheese, usually mixed with ale or beer, milk, and spices, served over toast.
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