12-letter words containing a, s, h, k
- 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.
- nakhon sawan — a city in W central Thailand, on the Chao Phraya River.
- no thanks to — to express gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment to: She thanked them for their hospitality.
- noam chomsky — (Avram) Noam [nohm,, noh-uh m] /noʊm,, ˈnoʊ əm/ (Show IPA), born 1928, U.S. linguist, educator, and political activist.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- paki-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked physical assaults upon Pakistani immigrants or people of Pakistani descent
- parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
- passage hawk — a young hawk during its first migration.
- 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
- quackishness — The state or condition of being quackish.
- 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.
- 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.
- schappe silk — a yarn or fabric of or similar to spun silk.
- schmalkalden — a town in central Germany: a league to defend Protestantism formed here 1531.
- 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.
- shank's pony — 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.
- 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
- shavano peak — a mountain in central Colorado, in the S Sawatch Range, in the Rocky Mountains. 14,229 feet (4337 meters).
- sheath knife — a knife carried in a sheath.
- 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.
- shell jacket — a close-fitting, semiformal jacket, with a short back, worn in the tropics in place of a tuxedo.
- shellcracker — redear sunfish.
- shirt jacket — a shirtlike jacket.
- shiva-shakti — the Godhead, of which the masculine, passive, transcendent, eternal principle is Shiva, and the feminine, active, immanent, temporal principle is Shakti, the Divine Mother.
- shock tactic — Shock tactics are a way of trying to influence people's attitudes to a particular matter by shocking them.
- shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
- shostakovich — Dimitri Dimitrievich [dih-mee-tree di-mee-tree-uh-vich;; Russian dmyee-tryee dmyee-tryi-yi-vyich] /dɪˈmi tri dɪˈmi tri ə vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈdmyi tryi ˈdmyi tryɪ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1906–75, Russian composer.
- sign a check — When you sign a check , you write your name on it in a special space in order to validate it.
- skeeter hawk — mosquito hawk.
- 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.
- smooth snake — any of several slender nonvenomous colubrid snakes of the European genus Coronella, esp C. austriaca, having very smooth scales and a reddish-brown coloration
- snake's head — checkered lily.
- snake's-head — checkered lily.
- snake-hipped — having thin, sinuous hips.
- snatch block — a fairlead having the form of a block that can be opened to receive the bight of a rope at any point along its length.