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12-letter words containing a, e, r, o, t, h

  • 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-change — to give less than the correct change to.
  • short-haired — having short hair
  • short-handed — not having the usual or necessary number of workers, helpers, etc.
  • shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
  • shower stall — an individual compartment or self-contained unit, having a single shower and accommodating one person.
  • slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
  • soft chancre — chancroid.
  • soft-hearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
  • sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • south korean — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 36,600 sq. mi. (94,795 sq. km). Capital: Seoul. Compare Korea.
  • south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • southeastern — from the south east
  • spectrograph — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
  • stakeholders — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
  • starter home — A starter home is a small, new house or flat which is cheap enough for people who are buying their first home to afford.
  • steatorrhoea — the presence of excess fat in the stools, usually caused by disease of the pancreas or intestine, and characterized by chronic diarrhea and weight loss.
  • steganograph — a piece of coded writing; cipher
  • stenographer — a person who specializes in taking dictation in shorthand.
  • stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stenothermal — (of animals or plants) able to exist only within a narrow range of temperature
  • stereography — the art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane.
  • stonyhearted — unfeeling; pitiless; cruel
  • storm-lashed — badly affected by storms
  • stouthearted — brave and resolute; dauntless.
  • stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
  • stratosphere — the region of the upper atmosphere extending upward from the tropopause to about 30 miles (50 km) above the earth, characterized by little vertical change in temperature.
  • strep throat — an acute sore throat caused by hemolytic streptococci and accompanied by fever and prostration.
  • strophiolate — having a strophiole
  • synantherous — with united anthers
  • synarthroses — immovable articulation; a fixed or immovable joint; suture.
  • technocratic — of, relating to, or designating a technocrat or technocracy.
  • technography — the description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
  • telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • telautograph — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting, drawings, etc, the movements of an electromagnetically controlled pen at one end being transmitted along a line to a similar pen at the receiving end
  • telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
  • telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
  • teratophobia — fear of giving birth to a monster
  • tetrachotomy — the segmentation of something into four parts
  • tetrahydroxy — (of a molecule) containing four hydroxyl groups.
  • tetramorphic — (in art) of or related to a composite representation of the four evangelists' symbols
  • the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
  • the creation — God's act of bringing the universe into being
  • the old dart — England
  • the ordnance — a department of an army or government dealing with military supplies
  • the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
  • the year dot — The year dot is used to mean a very long time ago.
  • the-overcoat — a short story (1842) by Gogol.
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