12-Letter Words Containing: L,E,T,C,H,E,S

• the administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma

• wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle

• a person who is enthusiastic about new technology

• a coarse loosely woven cotton gauze; originally used to wrap cheeses

• a mineral consisting of uranium oxide and trace amounts of radium and thorium and polonium and lead and helium; uraninite in massive form is called pitchblende which is the chief uranium ore

• (Judaism) either of two small leather cases containing texts from the Hebrew Scriptures (known collectively as tefillin); traditionally worn (on the forehead and the left arm) by Jewish men during morning prayer

• a compound containing a heterocyclic ring

• a ring of atoms of more than one kind; especially a ring of carbon atoms containing at least one atom that is not carbon

• an overstuffed davenport with upright armrests

• suave and witty English statesman remembered mostly for letters to his son (1694-1773)

• a fitted overcoat with a velvet collar