12-letter words containing d, h, o
- 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.
- self-honored — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- shadow bands — slow-moving waves of light and dark observed to move across light-coloured surfaces on the earth just before and after totality in a solar eclipse. They are thought to originate from the effects of irregular atmospheric refraction
- 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
- shadowgraphy — the production of a shadowgraph
- 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.
- shellshocked — suffering from shellshock
- shepherd boy — male child who herds sheep
- shepherd dog — sheepdog.
- shittim wood — the wood, probably acacia, of which the ark of the covenant and various parts of the tabernacle were made. Ex. 25, 26.
- shop steward — commerce: union rep
- shore dinner — a meal consisting chiefly of seafood.
- short radius — the perpendicular distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a side
- short-haired — having short hair
- short-handed — not having the usual or necessary number of workers, helpers, etc.
- short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- shortsighted — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
- shoshone dam — a dam on the Shoshone River. 328 feet (100 meters) high.
- shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
- shoulder pad — clothing: insert in shoulder
- shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
- shovel-nosed — having the head, snout, or beak broad and flat like the blade of a shovel.
- shovel-ready — of or relating to a construction project that is ready to start immediately
- shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
- shut-out bid — a pre-emptive bid
- siderochrome — any of various chemical compounds functioning in the transport of iron in bacteria.
- siderography — the art or technique of engraving on steel.
- siderophilic — having characteristics of siderophile
- sindonophany — the periodic exhibiting to the public of the shroud that the body of Christ is thought to have been wrapped in
- smallholding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
- smooth hound — a smooth dogfish, especially Mustelus mustelus, inhabiting waters along the coast of Europe.
- smooth-faced — beardless; smooth-shaven.
- sober-headed — characterized by clear, logical thinking; not fanciful or capricious.
- sodium light — the light produced by a sodium lamp
- soft-hearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
- soft-shelled — Also, soft-shelled. having a soft, flexible, or fragile shell, as a crab that has recently molted.
- softheadedly — in a soft-headed manner
- soufflé dish — A dish for making souffles
- 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
- sounion head — the tip of the Attica peninsula, E central Greece: site of ancient temple ruins.
- south dakota — a state in the N central United States: a part of the Midwest. 77,047 sq. mi. (199,550 sq. km). Capital: Pierre. Abbreviation: SD (for use with zip code), S. Dak.