12-letter words containing t, h, e, l, i
- clotheslines — Plural form of clothesline.
- club fighter — a mediocre boxer who fights mostly on programs at small sporting clubs
- coelacanthic — of or relating to the coelacanth
- cohesibility — the nature of being cohesible
- collide with — If a vehicle collides with another vehicle or a person, it hits something or someone that is traveling in a different direction.
- coquettishly — (of a woman) characteristically flirtatious, especially in a teasing, lighthearted manner.
- counterlight — a light opposite something, such as a painting, that negatively affects the appearance of that object
- cytochemical — the branch of cell biology dealing with the detection of cell constituents by means of biochemical analysis and visualization techniques.
- daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
- daughterling — a small daughter
- death spiral — a period of continuous deterioration that leads ultimately to catastrophic failure or destruction
- dechlorinate — to remove chlorine from (a substance)
- delightfully — giving great pleasure or delight; highly pleasing: a delightful surprise.
- demolishment — to destroy or ruin (a building or other structure), especially on purpose; tear down; raze.
- diethylamide — (organic compound) The derivative of a compound formed by adding an amide group with two ethyl substituents, N(C2H5)2.
- diethylamine — (organic compound) The secondary amine (CH3CH2)2NH.
- dilettantish — a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.
- dip the flag — to salute by lowering a flag briefly
- disestablish — to deprive of the character of being established; cancel; abolish.
- dishevelment — to let down, as hair, or wear or let hang in loose disorder, as clothing.
- dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
- ditheistical — of or relating to ditheism, ditheistic
- ditheletical — relating to ditheletism, the doctrine that Christ had two wills
- double hitch — a Blackwall hitch with an extra upper loop passed around the hook.
- double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
- double-width — twice the usual width: double-wide mobile homes consisting of two sections bolted together.
- doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
- dyotheletism — the teaching that Christ had both a divine will and a human will
- early blight — a disease of plants characterized by leaf spotting, defoliation, and stunted growth, caused by any of several fungi, as Alternaria solani or Cercospora apii.
- earth pillar — a pillar of earthy matter left by erosion of the surrounding ground.
- east lothian — a historic county in SE Scotland.
- echolocation — the general method of locating objects by determining the time for an echo to return and the direction from which it returns, as by radar or sonar.
- edith cavell — Edith Louisa, 1865–1915, English nurse: executed by the Germans in World War I.
- eighteenthly — in the eighteenth place
- electrophile — (chemistry) a compound or functional group that is attractive to, and accepts electrons, especially accepting an electron pair from a nucleophile to form a bond.
- electrophori — Plural form of electrophorus.
- elephantbird — Alternative form of elephant bird.
- elephantitis — (US) misconstruction of elephantiasis.
- elizabeth ii — born 1926, queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1952; daughter of George VI
- empathically — In an empathic manner.
- emphatically — In a forceful way.
- enarthrodial — Relating to an enarthrosis.
- encephalitic — Of or pertaining to encephalitis.
- encephalitis — Inflammation of the brain, caused by infection or an allergic reaction.
- enchantingly — In an enchanting manner.
- endothelioma — Any of various mostly benign neoplasms derived from the endothelium of blood vessels or lymph channels.
- enlightening — Present participle of enlighten.
- ephemerality — (uncountable) The state or condition of being ephemeral; transience.
- epiphytology — the study of epiphytes
- epithalamion — A song or poem celebrating a marriage.