12-letter words containing c, h, e, s, d
- secchi depth — the depth at which a Secchi disk is no longer visible from the surface of ocean water.
- secd machine — Stack Environment Control Dump machine
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- second reich — the German Empire 1871–1919.
- second sheet — a sheet of blank stationery, used in a letter as the second and following pages to a sheet having a letterhead.
- second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
- second teeth — the teeth which replace the milk teeth
- second-homer — a person who owns another house in addition to their main home, often in an area where they are not native and used as a holiday home
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- semiattached — partially attached; semidetached.
- semidetached — partly detached.
- shadow dance — a dance in which shadows of the dancers are cast on a screen.
- shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
- shamefacedly — modest or bashful.
- shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
- shellshocked — suffering from shellshock
- shelter deck — a weather deck covering a space not considered fully watertight.
- shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- siderochrome — any of various chemical compounds functioning in the transport of iron in bacteria.
- siderophilic — having characteristics of siderophile
- smooth-faced — beardless; smooth-shaven.
- sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
- south euclid — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- speech sound — any of the set of distinctive sounds of a given language. Compare phoneme.
- stacked heel — a shoe heel constructed from several layers of material.
- starchedness — the condition or quality of being starched
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- stockholders — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
- street child — Street children are homeless children who live outdoors in a city and live by begging or stealing.
- sun-drenched — Sun-drenched places have a lot of hot sunshine.
- supercharged — equipped with a supercharger.
- synecdochism — the use of synecdoche
- the deceased — the dead person or persons
- the distance — the most distant or a faraway part of the visible scene or landscape
- the pandects — a digest of Roman civil law in fifty books, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the 6th cent. a.d.; the Digest
- third sector — the segment of a nation's economy that is made up of neither public nor business concerns, as nonprofit health or educational institutions.
- thunderstick — bull-roarer.
- trade school — a high school giving instruction chiefly in the skilled trades.
- unbesmirched — to soil; tarnish; discolor.
- unchristened — not christened
- underclothes — clothes worn under outer clothes.
- undischarged — gun: not let off
- undispatched — not dispatched; not delivered or sent out
- unfranchised — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- unsepulchred — not sepulchred
- watchstander — (US) A person who is on watch on a ship.
- wattenscheid — an industrial town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia east of Essen
- whipstitched — Simple past tense and past participle of whipstitch.
- windcheaters — Plural form of windcheater.