12-letter words containing d, i, s, h, t
- potting shed — A potting shed is a small building in a garden, in which you can keep things such as seeds or garden tools.
- radiesthesia — the ability to sense energy forces or radiation, esp from the human body
- radiesthetic — of or relating to radiesthesia
- radiophonist — a person who produces radiophonic music
- rechristened — to receive into the Christian church by baptism; baptize.
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- residentship — a person who resides in a place.
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
- sandy blight — trachoma.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- schindyletic — relating to the joint in which one bone is received into the cleft or slit of another bone
- 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".
- scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
- 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.
- secchi depth — the depth at which a Secchi disk is no longer visible from the surface of ocean water.
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
- 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.
- semiattached — partially attached; semidetached.
- semidetached — partly detached.
- sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
- shasta daisy — any of several horticultural varieties of Chrysanthemum superbum, having large, white, daisylike flowers.
- shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
- shirt-tailed — (of a garment) having a shirt-tail
- shirtsleeved — not wearing a jacket or coat
- shittim wood — the wood, probably acacia, of which the ark of the covenant and various parts of the tabernacle were made. Ex. 25, 26.
- short radius — the perpendicular distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a side
- short-haired — having short hair
- short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
- shortsighted — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
- shut-out bid — a pre-emptive bid
- sixth-grader — a pupil in their sixth US school year after kindergarten, who is usually around 11 or 12 years old
- smith island — a group of islands in S Maryland and N Virginia, in Chesapeake Bay.
- sodium light — the light produced by a sodium lamp
- south euclid — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
- spiderhunter — any of several sunbirds of the genus Arachnothera, of southern Asia and the East Indies, having dull-colored plumage and a long bill.
- spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- stadia-hairs — a method of surveying in which distances are read by noting the interval on a graduated rod intercepted by two parallel cross hairs (stadia hairs or stadia wires) mounted in the telescope of a surveying instrument, the rod being placed at one end of the distance to be measured and the surveying instrument at the other.
- stand-offish — If you say that someone is stand-offish, you mean that they behave in a formal and rather unfriendly way.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- straightbred — (of animals) purebred; having parents of the same breed
- straightedge — a bar or strip of wood, plastic, or metal having at least one long edge of sufficiently reliable straightness for use in drawing or testing straight lines, plane surfaces, etc.
- street child — Street children are homeless children who live outdoors in a city and live by begging or stealing.
- strike hands — to show agreement by clasping hands
- stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
- stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.
- 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.