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12-letter words containing a, s, h, t, n

  • straight man — an entertainer who plays the part of a foil for a comic partner.
  • straight pin — pin (sense 2)
  • straightneck — a variety of summer squash related to the crookneck but not having a recurved neck.
  • straightness — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
  • strike hands — to show agreement by clasping hands
  • stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
  • strophanthin — a very poisonous, bitter glycoside or mixture of glycosides obtained from the dried, ripe seeds of a strophanthus, especially Strophanthus kombe, used as a cardiac stimulant.
  • strophanthus — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Strophanthus, of the dogbane family, chiefly of tropical Africa.
  • subhastation — a public auction or sale
  • sudden death — an overtime period in which a tied contest is won and play is stopped immediately after one of the contestants scores, as in football, or goes ahead, as in golf.
  • sulphonation — the action or process of converting or being converted into a sulphonate
  • superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
  • sycophantish — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • sycophantism — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • sycophantize — to act the sycophant
  • sympathizing — to be in sympathy or agreement of feeling; share in a feeling (often followed by with).
  • synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
  • synaesthesia — synesthesia.
  • synaesthesis — the harmonious combination of differing impulses arising from a work of art
  • synaesthetic — synesthesia.
  • synantherous — with united anthers
  • synarthrodia — synarthrosis.
  • synarthroses — immovable articulation; a fixed or immovable joint; suture.
  • synarthrosis — immovable articulation; a fixed or immovable joint; suture.
  • tadzhikistan — a republic in central Asia, N of Afghanistan. 55,240 sq. mi. (143,600 sq. km). Capital: Dushanbe.
  • take chances — to behave in a risky manner
  • talking shop — If you say that a conference or a committee is just a talking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.
  • telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • tenths-place — next after ninth; being the ordinal number for ten.
  • thankfulness — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
  • thanks a lot — thank you
  • thanksgiving — the act of giving thanks; grateful acknowledgment of benefits or favors, especially to God.
  • the analects — a collection of Confucius' teachings
  • the ancients — the people who lived in ancient times
  • the antilles — a group of islands in the Caribbean
  • the ardennes — a wooded plateau in SE Belgium, Luxembourg, and NE France: scene of heavy fighting in both World Wars
  • the dingbats — delirium tremens
  • the distance — the most distant or a faraway part of the visible scene or landscape
  • the east end — a densely populated part of E London containing former industrial and dock areas, now extensively redeveloped for offices
  • the herdsman — the constellation Boötes
  • the lothians — three historic counties of SE central Scotland (now council areas): East Lothian, West Lothian, and Midlothian (including Edinburgh)
  • the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
  • the midlands — the central counties of England, including Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, the former West Midlands metropolitan county, and Worcestershire: characterized by manufacturing industries
  • the nearside — the side of a vehicle normally nearer the kerb (in Britain, the left side)
  • the pandects — a digest of Roman civil law in fifty books, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the 6th cent. a.d.; the Digest
  • the passions — feeling, as opposed to reason
  • the saltsjön — an inlet of the Baltic Sea in Sweden
  • the silurian — the Silurian period or rock system
  • the-persians — a tragedy (472 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
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