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12-letter words containing a, c, t, h, e

  • sacred heart — the physical heart of Jesus, to which special devotion is offered as a symbol of His love and redemptive sacrifice.
  • safety catch — a device used in mechanisms, as for elevators, to prevent falling in the event of mechanical failure.
  • safety chain — a chain on the fastening of a bracelet, watch, etc, to ensure that it cannot open enough to fall off accidentally
  • safety match — a match designed to ignite only when rubbed on a specially prepared surface.
  • safety touch — a two-point play
  • sanity check — (programming)   1. Checking code (or anything else, e.g. a Usenet posting) for completely stupid mistakes. Implies that the check is to make sure the author was sane when it was written; e.g. if a piece of scientific software relied on a particular formula and was giving unexpected results, one might first look at the nesting of parentheses or the coding of the formula, as a "sanity check", before looking at the more complex I/O or data structure manipulation routines, much less the algorithm itself. Compare reality check. 2. A run-time test, either validating input or ensuring that the program hasn't screwed up internally (producing an inconsistent value or state).
  • saskatchewan — a province in W Canada. 251,700 sq. mi. (651,900 sq. km). Capital: Regina.
  • scatter shot — shot prepared for a weapon having a rifled bore or barrel.
  • scattergraph — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
  • schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
  • scratch file — A scratch file is a temporary computer file which you use as a work area or as a store while a program is operating.
  • scratch line — a line that marks the start of a race.
  • scratch race — a race in which all contestants start on equal terms
  • scratch tape — a magnetic tape that is used for temporary storage, which may be erased and re-used
  • scratch test — a test for a suspected allergy in which the skin is scratched and an allergen applied to the area, redness indicating a positive reaction.
  • scratchplate — a plastic or metal plate attached to the front of a guitar to protect it from pick scratches
  • screw thread — Also called worm. the helical ridge of a screw.
  • search party — a group of persons conducting an organized search for someone or something lost or hidden.
  • section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
  • semiattached — partially attached; semidetached.
  • semidetached — partly detached.
  • set the pace — a rate of movement, especially in stepping, walking, etc.: to walk at a brisk pace of five miles an hour.
  • 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.
  • shell jacket — a close-fitting, semiformal jacket, with a short back, worn in the tropics in place of a tuxedo.
  • shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
  • shirt jacket — a shirtlike jacket.
  • short-change — to give less than the correct change to.
  • shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
  • shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
  • sivapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene primates of Asia that resemble the modern orangutan.
  • skirt chaser — a womanizer.
  • skirt-chaser — a womanizer.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • smallclothes — men's close-fitting knee breeches of the 18th and 19th centuries
  • smooth-faced — beardless; smooth-shaven.
  • 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.
  • sophisticate — a sophisticated person.
  • space flight — journey into outer space
  • space heater — the heating of a limited area, as a room, by means of a heater (space heater) within the area.
  • space helmet — a helmet worn by astronauts while in outer space
  • spectrograph — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • spermaphytic — able to produce seeds
  • sphacelation — the process of mortification
  • sphericality — the state of being a sphere
  • sphincterial — relating to a sphincter
  • spinach beet — chard, a plant cultivated for its edible leaves
  • spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
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