12-letter words containing a, r, k, s, h
- kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
- lake charles — a city in SW Louisiana.
- leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
- leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
- loansharking — the practice of lending money at excessive rates of interest.
- make history — do sth of great significance
- market share — the specific percentage of total industry sales of a particular product achieved by a single company in a given period of time.
- marksmanship — a person who is skilled in shooting at a mark; a person who shoots well.
- parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
- peppershaker — a container with a perforated top for sprinkling ground pepper.
- phrase-maker — a person who is skilled in coining well-turned phrases; phraseologist.
- phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
- prankishness — the quality or condition of being prankish
- salad shaker — a portable plastic container which is used for storing salad and which has a separate compartment for salad dressing. The dressing is put on the salad just before it is eaten and the container can then be shaken to spread the salad dressing evenly.
- school shark — an Australian shark resembling the tope, Notogaleus australis
- scratch disk — 1. (storage) See scratch. 2. (operating system) Unallocated space on Windows 95's primary hard disk partition, used for virtual memory. Shortage of space on this partition can result in the error "scratch disk full".
- scratch mark — the mark left by a scratch
- scrimshanker — a shirker
- shale shaker — A shale shaker is a moving screen which removes cuttings from the mud so they can be disposed of.
- shamrock-pea — a trailing plant, Parochetus communis, of the legume family, native to Asia and east Africa, having shamrocklike leaves with a brown crescent at the base and pea-shaped, pink and blue flowers.
- shanks' mare — one's own legs, especially as a means of moving from one place to another: The only way we can get there is by shanks' mare.
- share market — a highly organized market facilitating the purchase and sale of securities and operated by professional stockbrokers and market makers according to fixed rules
- share-milker — (in New Zealand) a person who lives on a dairy farm milking the owner's herd for an agreed share of the profits and, usually, building his own herd simultaneously
- shark patrol — a watch for sharks kept by an aircraft flying over beaches used by swimmers
- shelf talker — a cardboard, paper, or plastic advertisement of a product designed to be attached to a shelf on which the product is exhibited for sale.
- shellcracker — redear sunfish.
- shirt jacket — a shirtlike jacket.
- shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
- skeeter hawk — mosquito hawk.
- skirt chaser — a womanizer.
- skirt-chaser — a womanizer.
- 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.
- sparrow hawk — a small, short-winged European hawk, Accipiter nisus, that preys on smaller birds.
- speakerphone — a telephone or telephone attachment equipped with both loudspeaker and microphone, thus permitting the instrument to be used without being held.
- speech maker — a person who makes a formal speech
- square shake — square deal.
- stakeholders — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
- 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.
- stretch mark — a silvery streak occurring typically on the abdomen or thighs and caused by stretching of the skin over a short period of time, as during pregnancy or rapid weight gain.
- stretchmarks — marks that remain visible on the abdomen after its distension, esp in pregnancy
- strike hands — to show agreement by clasping hands
- sugar shaker — a container with holes in the top, used for sprinkling sugar onto food
- swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
- trash talker — to use disparaging or boastful language.
- turkish bath — a bath in which the bather, after copious perspiration in a steam room, showers and has a rubdown.
- unshrinkable — not able to contract or become smaller in size
- vanga shrike — any of several birds of the family Vangidae, endemic to Madagascar, some of which resemble shrikes, with great diversity in size, color, and bill shape.
- waking hours — Your waking hours are the times when you are awake rather than asleep.
- walkthroughs — Plural form of walkthrough.