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12-letter words containing a, e, s, t, h, i

  • saint helens — a city in Merseyside, in NW England, near Liverpool.
  • saint helier — a British island in the English Channel: the largest of the Channel Islands. 44 sq. mi. (116 sq. km). Capital: St. Helier.
  • saint hubert — a borough in S Quebec, Canada, just E of Montreal.
  • saint joseph — a city in NW Missouri, on the Missouri River.
  • saint phalle — Niki de [nik-ee duh;; French nee-kee duh] /ˈnɪk i də;; French niˈki də/ (Show IPA), 1930–2002, French sculptor and painter.
  • saint-hubert — town in S Quebec, Canada: part of metropolitan Montreal: pop. 77,000
  • saint-mihiel — a town in NE France, on the Meuse River, NW of Nancy: captured by American forces 1918.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
  • see daylight — the light of day: At the end of the tunnel they could see daylight.
  • self-heating — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
  • semiattached — partially attached; semidetached.
  • semidetached — partly detached.
  • sergeantfish — the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
  • set straight — to give the correct facts to; inform properly
  • shamateurism — a sports term referring to a state in which an athlete is classified as an amateur but acts like a professional, usually by raising money
  • share option — A share option is an opportunity for the employees of a company to buy shares at a special price.
  • shareability — the state or property of being able to be shared
  • sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
  • sheath knife — a knife carried in a sheath.
  • shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
  • shirt jacket — a shirtlike jacket.
  • shirt-tailed — (of a garment) having a shirt-tail
  • shirtwaister — a tailored blouse or shirt worn by women.
  • shoot a line — to try to create a false image, as by boasting or exaggerating
  • short-haired — having short hair
  • sivapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene primates of Asia that resemble the modern orangutan.
  • sixth-grader — a pupil in their sixth US school year after kindergarten, who is usually around 11 or 12 years old
  • skirt chaser — a womanizer.
  • skirt-chaser — a womanizer.
  • slant height — (of a right circular cone) the distance from the vertex to any point on the circumference of the base.
  • slipper bath — a bath in the shape of a slipper, with a covered end
  • 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.
  • somaesthesia — sensory perception of bodily feelings like touch, pain, position of the limbs, etc
  • sophisticate — a sophisticated person.
  • space flight — journey into outer space
  • 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
  • stage fright — nervousness felt by a performer or speaker when appearing before an audience.
  • stakhanovite — a worker in the Soviet Union who regularly surpassed production quotas and was specially honored and rewarded.
  • star thistle — any of several naturalized Eurasian plants of the genus Centaurea, especially C. calcitrapa, having purplish, spiny flower heads.
  • stealthiness — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
  • stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
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