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12-letter words containing e, c, a, s, h

  • saskatchewan — a province in W Canada. 251,700 sq. mi. (651,900 sq. km). Capital: Regina.
  • scampishness — the quality of being scampish
  • scatter shot — shot prepared for a weapon having a rifled bore or barrel.
  • scattergraph — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
  • scene change — a change of scene in a theatre, where one set is dismantled and another is erected
  • scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
  • schaffhausen — a canton in N Switzerland. 100 sq. mi. (259 sq. km).
  • schappe silk — a yarn or fabric of or similar to spun silk.
  • 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.
  • schiaparelli — Elsa [el-sah] /ˈɛl sɑ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1973, French fashion designer, born in Italy.
  • 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.
  • schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
  • schopenhauer — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
  • schwann cell — a cell of the peripheral nervous system that wraps around a nerve fiber, jelly-roll fashion, forming the myelin sheath.
  • sclerenchyma — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
  • scratch file — A scratch file is a temporary computer file which you use as a work area or as a store while a program is operating.
  • scratch line — a line that marks the start of a race.
  • scratch race — a race in which all contestants start on equal terms
  • scratch tape — a magnetic tape that is used for temporary storage, which may be erased and re-used
  • scratch test — a test for a suspected allergy in which the skin is scratched and an allergen applied to the area, redness indicating a positive reaction.
  • scratchplate — a plastic or metal plate attached to the front of a guitar to protect it from pick scratches
  • screw thread — Also called worm. the helical ridge of a screw.
  • scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
  • scrimshanker — a shirker
  • sea crawfish — spiny lobster
  • sea crayfish — spiny lobster.
  • 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
  • search party — a group of persons conducting an organized search for someone or something lost or hidden.
  • secd machine — Stack Environment Control Dump machine
  • section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
  • semiattached — partially attached; semidetached.
  • semidetached — partly detached.
  • seraphically — of, like, or befitting a seraph.
  • set the pace — a rate of movement, especially in stepping, walking, etc.: to walk at a brisk pace of five miles an hour.
  • 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.
  • shamrock-pea — a trailing plant, Parochetus communis, of the legume family, native to Asia and east Africa, having shamrocklike leaves with a brown crescent at the base and pea-shaped, pink and blue flowers.
  • sharecropper — a tenant farmer who pays as rent a share of the crop.
  • shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
  • shatter cone — a cone-shaped fragment of rock, probably formed by violent shock waves, as from meteoritic impact or atomic explosions
  • sheet anchor — Nautical. a large anchor used only in cases of emergency.
  • shell jacket — a close-fitting, semiformal jacket, with a short back, worn in the tropics in place of a tuxedo.
  • shellcracker — redear sunfish.
  • shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
  • shirt jacket — a shirtlike jacket.
  • short-change — to give less than the correct change to.
  • shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
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