12-letter words containing t, o, h, l, e, s
- neutrophiles — (of a cell or cell part) having an affinity for neutral dyes.
- nightclothes — Clothes worn to bed.
- no less than — at least
- old chestnut — old saying, cliché
- oligochaetes — Plural form of oligochaete.
- on the loose — free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
- on the shelf — a thin slab of wood, metal, etc., fixed horizontally to a wall or in a frame, for supporting objects.
- on the slate — on credit
- on the tiles — on a spree, esp of drinking or debauchery
- open slather — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- orchestrally — In an orchestral manner.
- oyster shell — oyster's hard outer covering
- penalty shot — a free shot at the goal defended only by the goalkeeper, awarded to an offensive player for certain defensive violations.
- phlebotomist — a specialist in phlebotomy.
- photoelastic — displaying photoelasticity; of or relating to photoelasticity
- photorealism — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
- phrenologist — a psychological theory or analytical method based on the belief that certain mental faculties and character traits are indicated by the configurations of the skull.
- plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- play clothes — clothes that are suitable for playing in
- polish wheat — a wheat, Triticum polonicum, grown chiefly in S Europe, N Africa, and Turkestan.
- polychaetous — of or relating to the genus Polychaeta
- polytheistic — pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to polytheism, the doctrine that there is more than one god or many gods: Science thrived in the polytheistic culture of ancient Greece.
- poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
- psephologist — A psephologist studies how people vote in elections.
- put flesh on — If you put flesh on something, you add details and more information to it.
- pyrosulphate — any salt of pyrosulphuric acid
- reality show — A reality show is a type of television program that aims to show how ordinary people behave in everyday life, or in situations, often created by the program makers, which are intended to represent everyday life.
- relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
- resort hotel — a hotel in a holiday resort
- reupholstery — the materials used to cushion and cover furniture.
- rock-shelter — a shallow cave or cavelike area, as one formed by an overhanging cliff or standing rocks, occupied by Stone Age peoples, possibly for extended periods.
- saw-whet owl — a very small North American owl, Aegolius acadicus, having streaked, brown plumage and lacking ear tufts.
- schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- sell-through — quantity of direct sales made
- semi-monthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
- shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
- shoe leather — treated animal skin used for shoes
- shoot a line — to try to create a false image, as by boasting or exaggerating
- shore patrol — (often initial capital letters) members of an organization in the U.S. Navy having police duties similar to those performed by military police. Abbreviation: SP.
- short seller — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
- short splice — a splice used when an increased thickness of the united rope is not objectionable, made by unlaying the rope ends a certain distance, uniting them so that their strands overlap, then tucking each alternately over and under others several times.
- shower stall — an individual compartment or self-contained unit, having a single shower and accommodating one person.
- silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
- silhouettist — a creator of silhouette portraits
- siphonostele — a hollow tube of vascular tissue enclosing a pith and embedded in ground tissue.
- slash pocket — a pocket set into a garment, especially below the waistline, to which easy access is provided by an exterior, vertical or diagonal slit.
- slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
- slot machine — a gambling machine operated by inserting coins into a slot and pulling a handle that activates a set of spinning symbols on wheels, the final alignment of which determines the payoff that is released into a receptacle at the bottom.
- slothfulness — sluggardly; indolent; lazy.