13-letter words containing t, h, e, i, l
- life-or-death — life-and-death.
- light colonel — a lieutenant colonel.
- light cruiser — a naval cruiser having 6-inch (15-cm) guns as its main armament.
- light mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity of less than 2.8 and is generally light in color.
- light reading — reading which is not considered too demanding or intellectual
- light therapy — therapeutic exposure to full-spectrum artificial light that simulates sunlight, used to treat various conditions, as seasonal affective disorder.
- light vehicle — a vehicle designed to carry loads or a small number of passengers up to an officially determined weight, such as a scooter, motorbike, rickshaw, etc
- light whiskey — a light-colored, mild whiskey aged in new or used casks for not less than four years
- light-hearted — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
- light-o'-love — a lover.
- lighter flint — the small piece of flint in a lighter pressure on which creates a spark that ignites the fuel
- lighter fluid — a combustible fluid used in cigarette, cigar, and pipe lighters.
- lightfastness — The quality of being lightfast.
- lightheadedly — In a lightheaded manner.
- lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
- lightlessness — The state or condition of being lightless; absence of light.
- lightsomeness — (archaic) The quality of being lightsome.
- like anything — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
- line of sight — Also called line of sighting. an imaginary straight line running through the aligned sights of a firearm, surveying equipment, etc.
- list enhanced — (operating system, tool) An MS-DOS file browsing utility written by Vern Buerg in 1983. A former mainframe systems programmer, Buerg wrote DOS utilities when he began using an IBM PC and missed the file-scanning ability he had on mainframes. The software became an instant success, and his list utility was in use on an estimated 5 million PCs.
- literacy hour — (in England and Wales) a daily reading and writing lesson that was introduced into the national primary school curriculum in 1998 to raise standards of literacy
- lithesomeness — the quality of being flexible and supple
- lithium oxide — a white powder, Li 2 O, with strong alkaline properties: used in ceramics and glass.
- lithotripters — Plural form of lithotripter.
- live together — cohabit
- load the dice — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
- lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
- lose sight of — no longer see
- lucifer match — friction match.
- lymphadenitis — inflammation of a lymphatic gland.
- lymphopoietin — (protein) A cytokine protein that has a function in T cell maturation.
- machine-steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
- macrolecithal — megalecithal.
- make light of — of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
- maple heights — a city in NE Ohio.
- marbled white — any butterfly of the satyrid genus Melanargia, with panelled black-and-white wings, but technically a brown butterfly; found in grassland
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- martin luther — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), 1483–1546, German theologian and author: leader, in Germany, of the Protestant Reformation.
- mephobarbital — The drug methylphenobarbital.
- mesaticephaly — the state or condition of being mesaticephalic or mesocephalic
- mesotheliomas — Plural form of mesothelioma.
- metenkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
- methantheline — a compound, C 2 1 H 2 6 BrNO 3 , used in the form of its bromide in the treatment of excessive sweating and salivation, peptic ulcer, stomach cramps, and other conditions resulting from nerve dysfunction.
- methemoglobin — a brownish compound of oxygen and hemoglobin, formed in the blood, as by the use of certain drugs.
- methodistical — Methodistic.
- methodologies — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
- methodologist — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
- methyl violet — gentian violet
- michelin star — a mark of distinction awarded by the Michelin travel guides to a restaurant in recognition of the high quality of its cooking. A restaurant may receive one, two, or three stars, representing very good, exceptional, or exquisite cuisine, respectively
- microlecithal — having a small amount of yolk, as certain eggs or ova.