12-letter words containing d, e, h
- right-handed — having the right hand or arm more serviceable than the left; using the right hand by preference: a right-handed painter.
- right-hander — a person who is right-handed, especially a baseball pitcher who throws with the right hand.
- right-minded — having correct, honest, or good opinions or principles.
- right-to-die — asserting or advocating the right to refuse extraordinary medical measures to prolong one's life when one is terminally ill or irreversibly comatose: right-to-die laws.
- road haulage — transport of goods by road
- road haulier — a person who owns or works for a road haulage company; a trucker
- rosh chodesh — the beginning of a new month in the Jewish calendar, celebrated in a specified manner during the morning service in the synagogue.
- rough-voiced — having a harsh or grating voice: a rough-voiced barker.
- running head — a descriptive word, phrase, title, or the like, usually repeated at the top of each page of a book, periodical, etc.
- rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
- sacred heart — the physical heart of Jesus, to which special devotion is offered as a symbol of His love and redemptive sacrifice.
- saddle horse — a horse bred, trained, or used for riding.
- saddle shoes — shoes with a midsection (where the laces are) that is darker in colour, usually black, to the rest of the shoe, which is usually white
- 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.
- save the day — solve a problem for sb
- say the word — If someone says the word, they give their approval as a sign that something should start to happen.
- scheherazade — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments) the wife of the sultan of India, who relates such interesting tales nightly that the sultan spares her life.
- scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
- schindylesis — an articulation or fibrous joint in which one bone is received into the cleft or slit of another bone
- schindyletic — relating to the joint in which one bone is received into the cleft or slit of another bone
- schmalkalden — a town in central Germany: a league to defend Protestantism formed here 1531.
- schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
- screw thread — Also called worm. the helical ridge of a screw.
- scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
- search order — an injunction allowing a person to enter the premises of another to search for and take copies of evidence required for a court case, used esp in cases of infringement of copyright
- 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.
- see daylight — the light of day: At the end of the tunnel they could see daylight.
- self-honored — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- semiattached — partially attached; semidetached.
- semidetached — partly detached.
- semifinished — partially or almost finished.
- serving dish — a dish in which food is presented or served, esp before being shared into individual portions
- 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
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
- sheepherding — the act of herding or tending sheep
- sheet feeder — a device that feeds paper into a printer one sheet at a time.
- shellshocked — suffering from shellshock
- shelter deck — a weather deck covering a space not considered fully watertight.