12-letter words containing a, t, r, h, s
- sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
- 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 martha — a sister of Mary and Lazarus, who lived at Bethany and ministered to Jesus (Luke 10:38–42). Feast day: July 29 or June 4
- saint-hubert — town in S Quebec, Canada: part of metropolitan Montreal: pop. 77,000
- saprophytism — living and feeding on dead organic matter
- say the word — If someone says the word, they give their approval as a sign that something should start to happen.
- scatter shot — shot prepared for a weapon having a rifled bore or barrel.
- scattergraph — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
- schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
- scintigraphy — the process of producing a scintigram.
- scotch grain — a coarse, pebble-grained finish given to heavy leather, esp. for men's shoes
- scram switch — (jargon) (From the nuclear power industry) An emergency power-off switch (see Big Red Switch), especially one positioned to be easily hit by evacuating personnel. In general, this is *not* something you frob lightly; these often initiate expensive events (such as Halon dumps) and are installed in a dinosaur pen for use in case of electrical fire or in case some luckless field servoid should put 120 volts across himself while Easter egging. SCRAM stands for Safety Control Rod Ax Man. In the early days of nuclear power, boron moderator rods were raised and lowered on ropes. In the event of a runaway chain reaction, a man with an axe would chop the rope and drop the rods into the nuclear pile to stop the reaction. See also molly-guard, TMRC.
- scratch card — a card or ticket having one or more sections coated with an opaque substance that can be scratched off to reveal a possible prize.
- scratch coat — (in plastering) a rough, deeply scored first coat upon which the brown coat is laid.
- 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 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.
- scratch mark — the mark left by a scratch
- scratch race — a race in which all contestants start on equal terms
- scratch tape — a magnetic tape that is used for temporary storage, which may be erased and re-used
- scratch test — a test for a suspected allergy in which the skin is scratched and an allergen applied to the area, redness indicating a positive reaction.
- scratchboard — a cardboard coated with impermeable white clay and covered by a layer of ink that is scratched or scraped in patterns revealing the white surface below.
- scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
- scratchbuilt — describing something which has been constructed by scratchbuilding
- scratchingly — in a scratching manner, with a scratching action
- scratchpad i — (language) A general-purpose language originally for interactive symbolic mathematics by Richard Jenks, Barry Trager, Stephen M. Watt and Robert S. Sutor of IBM Research, ca 1971. It features abstract parametrised data types, multiple inheritance and polymorphism. There were implementations for VM/CMS and AIX.
- scratchplate — a plastic or metal plate attached to the front of a guitar to protect it from pick scratches
- scratchproof — resistant to scratches.
- screw thread — Also called worm. the helical ridge of a screw.
- scutch grass — Bermuda grass.
- search party — a group of persons conducting an organized search for someone or something lost or hidden.
- sepher torah — a scroll of the Torah, typically of parchment, from which the designated Parashah is chanted or read on the prescribed days.
- 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 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 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
- shark patrol — a watch for sharks kept by an aircraft flying over beaches used by swimmers
- sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
- sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
- sharpshooter — a person skilled in shooting, especially with a rifle.
- shatter cone — a cone-shaped fragment of rock, probably formed by violent shock waves, as from meteoritic impact or atomic explosions
- shatterproof — designed or made to resist shattering: shatterproof glass in automobile windows.
- shear stress — the external force acting on an object or surface parallel to the slope or plane in which it lies; the stress tending to produce shear.
- sheet anchor — Nautical. a large anchor used only in cases of emergency.
- 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.
- shirt jacket — a shirtlike jacket.
- shirt-tailed — (of a garment) having a shirt-tail