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

  • cycle helmet — a protective helmet worn by cyclists to prevent head injuries
  • cycloheptane — (organic compound) An alicyclic hydrocarbon, C7H14; a volatile inflammable liquid.
  • cytochemical — the branch of cell biology dealing with the detection of cell constituents by means of biochemical analysis and visualization techniques.
  • data channel — (communications)   A channel (on a BRI or PRI line) used to carry control information, to set up connections on the associated bearer channels. The name wasn't too bad back when users were sending voice (not data) over the bearer channels, but in 1997 it's quite a misnomer.
  • daughterless — Without a daughter.
  • daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
  • daughterling — a small daughter
  • death rattle — If you say that one thing is the death rattle of another, you mean that the first thing is a sign that very soon the second thing will come to an end.
  • death spiral — a period of continuous deterioration that leads ultimately to catastrophic failure or destruction
  • death valley — a desert valley in E California and W Nevada: the lowest, hottest, and driest area of the US. Lowest point: 86 m (282 ft) below sea level. Area: about 3885 sq km (1500 sq miles)
  • dechlorinate — to remove chlorine from (a substance)
  • delightfully — giving great pleasure or delight; highly pleasing: a delightful surprise.
  • delta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex during deep sleep, occurring at a frequency of 1 to 4 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
  • demolishment — to destroy or ruin (a building or other structure), especially on purpose; tear down; raze.
  • dephlegmator — an apparatus used for dephlegmation
  • 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
  • do the lolly — to lose one's temper
  • double cloth — a cloth used in overcoating, blankets, brocade, etc., made by interweaving two physically discrete fabrics at various points in the pattern by bringing warp and fill yarns from each through the other to be worked on the opposite face of the compound fabric.
  • double dutch — a form of the game of jump rope in which two persons, holding the respective ends of two long jump ropes, swing them in a synchronized fashion, usually directed inward so the ropes are going in opposite directions, for one or two others to jump over.
  • 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.
  • down-at-heel — of a shabby, run-down appearance; seedy: He is rapidly becoming a down-at-heel drifter and a drunk.
  • dress length — a piece of material that is big enough to make a dress from
  • duple rhythm — a rhythmic pattern created by a succession of disyllabic feet.
  • dutch belted — one of a breed of black dairy cattle, raised originally in the Netherlands, having a broad white band encircling the body.
  • dutch clover — white clover.
  • dutch settle — a settle having a back so hinged that it can be lowered onto the arms to form a table.
  • 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 almond — chufa.
  • earth closet — a type of lavatory in which earth is used to cover excreta
  • earth colour — any of various brown pigments composed chiefly of iron oxides
  • 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.
  • echolocators — Plural form of echolocator.
  • edith cavell — Edith Louisa, 1865–1915, English nurse: executed by the Germans in World War I.
  • eighteenthly — in the eighteenth place
  • electroclash — a type of electronic music, originating in the first decade of the 21st century, that combines modern techno with synthesizer music characteristic of the 1980s
  • electrograph — A machine used in gravure printing.
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