12-letter words containing c, u, s, h
- sarcophagous — carnivorous.
- scatophagous — feeding on dung or excrement
- schaffhausen — a canton in N Switzerland. 100 sq. mi. (259 sq. km).
- schizogenous — schizogenetic.
- schizogonous — pertaining to or reproducing by schizogony.
- schizopodous — of or relating to a schizopod
- school hours — the period of the day when school is open
- school lunch — School lunches are midday meals provided for children at a school.
- schopenhauer — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
- schuman plan — the plan for establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, proposed by Robert Schuman, French political leader, in 1950.
- schussboomer — a skier who is skilled at schussing.
- 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
- scrophularia — a member of a genus of flowering plants which have a square stem and are known as figworts
- scrub typhus — an acute febrile disease characterized by severe headache, skin rash, chills, and swelling of the lymph nodes, caused by the bite of mites infected with the microorganism Rickettsia tsutsugamushi: occurs mainly in Asia, Australia, and the islands of the western Pacific
- scutch grass — Bermuda grass.
- secure shell — (operating system) (ssh) A Unix shell program for logging into, and executing commands on, a remote computer. ssh is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel.
- sheep fescue — a widely distributed grass, Festuca ovina, having densely clustered stems and cultivated for lawns and forage.
- ship biscuit — hardtack.
- short column — a column whose relative dimensions ensure that when it is overloaded it fails by crushing, rather than buckling
- shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- shrimp sauce — a sauce made from shrimps
- shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
- sivapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene primates of Asia that resemble the modern orangutan.
- sixth column — the persons residing in a country at war who are devoted to aiding the fifth column in its activities, especially by lowering morale, spreading rumors, etc.
- skeuomorphic — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
- smooth sumac — a shrub or small tree, Rhus glabra, of the cashew family, native to North America, having pinnate leaves and green flowers in a dense terminal cluster.
- snatch squad — a squad of soldiers or police trained to deal with demonstrations by picking out and arresting the alleged ringleaders
- 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
- soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
- south africa — Republic of, a country in S Africa; member of the Commonwealth of Nations until 1961. 472,000 sq. mi. (1,222,480 sq. km). Capitals: Pretoria and Cape Town.
- south euclid — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- speech sound — any of the set of distinctive sounds of a given language. Compare phoneme.
- sprachgefuhl — a sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
- squash court — an enclosed court used in the game of squash
- st.-eustache — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- starch syrup — glucose (def 2).
- starch-syrup — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- state church — established church.
- stockpunisht — punished by being put in stocks
- stomach pump — a suction pump for removing the contents of the stomach, used especially in cases of poisoning.
- studio couch — an upholstered couch, usually without a back, convertible into a double bed by sliding a bed frame out from beneath it and covering the frame with the mattress that forms the upper thickness of the upholstery.
- stump speech — a political campaign speech, especially one made on a campaign tour.
- subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
- sucker punch — to strike (someone) with an unexpected blow.
- sucker-punch — to strike (someone) with an unexpected blow.
- sun-drenched — Sun-drenched places have a lot of hot sunshine.
- sunday punch — Boxing. the most powerful and effective punch of a boxer, especially the punch used in trying to gain a knockout.
- supercharged — equipped with a supercharger.