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12-letter words containing a, c, h, e, n, s

  • secd machine — Stack Environment Control Dump machine
  • section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
  • shadow dance — a dance in which shadows of the dancers are cast on a screen.
  • shatter cone — a cone-shaped fragment of rock, probably formed by violent shock waves, as from meteoritic impact or atomic explosions
  • sheet anchor — Nautical. a large anchor used only in cases of emergency.
  • short-change — to give less than the correct change to.
  • shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
  • sign a check — When you sign a check , you write your name on it in a special space in order to validate it.
  • 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.
  • small change — coins of small denomination.
  • snowshoe cat — a breed of cat with soft short hair, blue eyes, an inverted V-shaped marking on the face, and white feet
  • soft chancre — chancroid.
  • sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
  • spanish rice — rice prepared with chopped onions, tomatoes, green peppers, and sometimes diced ham, seasoned with cayenne pepper and mixed with butter.
  • speech organ — any part of the body, as the tongue, velum, diaphragm, or lungs, that participates, actively or passively, voluntarily or involuntarily, in the production of the sounds of speech.
  • sphacelation — the process of mortification
  • sphincterial — relating to a sphincter
  • spin machine — an organization or group of people acting together to present news or information in a way that creates a particular desired impression
  • spinach beet — chard, a plant cultivated for its edible leaves
  • sprechgesang — a vocal style intermediate between speech and singing but without exact pitch intonation.
  • starchedness — the condition or quality of being starched
  • stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stern chaser — a cannon mounted at or near the stern of a sailing ship, facing aft.
  • stern-chaser — a cannon mounted at or near the stern of a sailing ship, facing aft.
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • straightneck — a variety of summer squash related to the crookneck but not having a recurved neck.
  • sycophantize — to act the sycophant
  • synaesthetic — synesthesia.
  • take chances — to behave in a risky manner
  • tenths-place — next after ninth; being the ordinal number for ten.
  • the analects — a collection of Confucius' teachings
  • the ancients — the people who lived in ancient times
  • the distance — the most distant or a faraway part of the visible scene or landscape
  • the pandects — a digest of Roman civil law in fifty books, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the 6th cent. a.d.; the Digest
  • thessalonica — official name of Salonika.
  • transhumance — the seasonal migration of livestock, and the people who tend them, between lowlands and adjacent mountains.
  • unchasteness — lack of chastity
  • undischarged — gun: not let off
  • undispatched — not dispatched; not delivered or sent out
  • unfranchised — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • unhysterical — not showing or suggesting any hysteria; controlled; sensible; calm;
  • unsearchable — not searchable; not lending itself to research or exploration; not to be understood by searching; hidden; unfathomable; mysterious: the unsearchable ways of the universe.
  • unsearchably — in an unsearchable manner
  • unstanchable — unstoppable
  • vereshchagin — Vasili Vasilievich [vuh-syee-lyee vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /vʌˈsyi lyi vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1842–1904, Russian painter.
  • watchfulness — vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.
  • watchstander — (US) A person who is on watch on a ship.
  • wattenscheid — an industrial town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia east of Essen
  • windcheaters — Plural form of windcheater.
  • with menaces — If someone commits the crime of demanding money with menaces, they threaten to cause harm unless they are given the money.
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