12-letter words containing t, u, l, e
- sextuplicate — a group, series, or set of six identical copies: The application is to be submitted in sextuplicate.
- shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
- shut-in well — confined to one's home, a hospital, etc., as from illness.
- shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
- 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
- silver trout — a variety of cutthroat trout, Salmo clarki henshawi, having silvery coloration, inhabiting Lake Tahoe.
- silviculture — the cultivation of forest trees; forestry.
- simple fruit — a fruit formed from one pistil.
- simultaneity — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
- simultaneous — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
- slate quarry — a quarry where slate is mined
- slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
- slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
- slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
- slothfulness — sluggardly; indolent; lazy.
- slow neutron — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
- snout beetle — weevil (def 1).
- sole custody — custody, as of a child whose parents are separated, in which one person has sole responsibility.
- solution set — the roots or values satisfying a given equation or inequality, or a set of simultaneous equations or inequalities
- somatopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the upper layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the overlying ectoderm, functioning in the formation of the body wall and amnion.
- somnambulate — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- soul brother — a black male, especially a fellow black male.
- south euclid — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- south hadley — a city in W Massachusetts.
- south platte — a river flowing NE from central Colorado to the Platte River in W Nebraska. 424 miles (683 km) long.
- speculatrice — a female speculator
- spinulescent — producing spines
- spiritualize — to make spiritual.
- spitefulness — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
- splatterpunk — a form of fiction featuring extremely graphic violence.
- sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
- square-built — sturdy and strong-looking
- star cluster — a number of stars of common origin held together as a group by gravitational attraction. Compare globular cluster, open cluster, stellar association.
- statute mile — mile (def 1).
- stealthfully — secret, clandestine, or surreptitious procedure.
- steel guitar — an acoustic, handheld guitar having a metal resonator and producing a wailing, variable sound.
- steel lumber — metal lumber composed of sheet steel.
- stelliferous — having or abounding with stars.
- stereocilium — any of the long, flexible microvilli that superficially resemble cilia and occur as a brush border or series of tufts on the surface of various epithelial tissues.
- steubenville — a city in E Ohio, on the Ohio River.
- stipulaceous — of, relating to, having, resembling, or living on stipules
- stone curlew — thick-knee.
- stormfulness — the quality or state of being stormful
- straticulate — made up of or arranged in thin layers.
- street value — monetary worth
- strike fault — a fault that trends parallel to the strike of the strata that it offsets.
- strike lucky — If you strike lucky or strike it lucky, you have some good luck.
- struggle bus — a situation, task, etc., that seems difficult or frustrating: With no sleep last night, I’ll be on the struggle bus today.
- stud welding — the semiautomatic welding of a stud or similar piece of metal to a flat part, usually by means of an electric arc