12-letter words containing e, n, t, h, s
- safety chain — a chain on the fastening of a bracelet, watch, etc, to ensure that it cannot open enough to fall off accidentally
- saint helena — Saint, c247–c330, mother of Constantine I.
- saint helens — a city in Merseyside, in NW England, near Liverpool.
- saint helier — a British island in the English Channel: the largest of the Channel Islands. 44 sq. mi. (116 sq. km). Capital: St. Helier.
- saint hubert — a borough in S Quebec, Canada, just E of Montreal.
- saint joseph — a city in NW Missouri, on the Missouri River.
- saint phalle — Niki de [nik-ee duh;; French nee-kee duh] /ˈnɪk i də;; French niˈki də/ (Show IPA), 1930–2002, French sculptor and painter.
- saint-hubert — town in S Quebec, Canada: part of metropolitan Montreal: pop. 77,000
- saint-mihiel — a town in NE France, on the Meuse River, NW of Nancy: captured by American forces 1918.
- sanity check — (programming) 1. Checking code (or anything else, e.g. a Usenet posting) for completely stupid mistakes. Implies that the check is to make sure the author was sane when it was written; e.g. if a piece of scientific software relied on a particular formula and was giving unexpected results, one might first look at the nesting of parentheses or the coding of the formula, as a "sanity check", before looking at the more complex I/O or data structure manipulation routines, much less the algorithm itself. Compare reality check. 2. A run-time test, either validating input or ensuring that the program hasn't screwed up internally (producing an inconsistent value or state).
- saskatchewan — a province in W Canada. 251,700 sq. mi. (651,900 sq. km). Capital: Regina.
- schindyletic — relating to the joint in which one bone is received into the cleft or slit of another bone
- scratch line — a line that marks the start of a race.
- sea elephant — elephant seal.
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- 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
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- see the menu — When a customer asks to see the menu, they ask you to bring them a copy of the menu.
- self-heating — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- semi-monthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
- sergeantfish — the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
- share option — A share option is an opportunity for the employees of a company to buy shares at a special price.
- sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
- shatter cone — a cone-shaped fragment of rock, probably formed by violent shock waves, as from meteoritic impact or atomic explosions
- shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
- sheath knife — a knife carried in a sheath.
- sheet anchor — Nautical. a large anchor used only in cases of emergency.
- shelter tent — a small, two-person, military tent consisting of two halves (shelter halves) buttoned or tied together, held up by accessory ropes and poles.
- shoot a line — to try to create a false image, as by boasting or exaggerating
- short notice — little warning
- short-change — to give less than the correct change to.
- short-handed — not having the usual or necessary number of workers, helpers, etc.
- short-spoken — speaking in a short, brief, or curt manner.
- short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- shut-in well — confined to one's home, a hospital, etc., as from illness.
- sight screen — a white screen set in line with the wicket as an aid to the batsman in seeing the ball when it is bowled.
- sight unseen — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- sightseeings — the act of visiting and seeing places and objects of interest.
- silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
- siphonostele — a hollow tube of vascular tissue enclosing a pith and embedded in ground tissue.
- skirt length — the length of someone's skirt
- slant height — (of a right circular cone) the distance from the vertex to any point on the circumference of the base.
- slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
- slot machine — a gambling machine operated by inserting coins into a slot and pulling a handle that activates a set of spinning symbols on wheels, the final alignment of which determines the payoff that is released into a receptacle at the bottom.
- slothfulness — sluggardly; indolent; lazy.
- smooth snake — any of several slender nonvenomous colubrid snakes of the European genus Coronella, esp C. austriaca, having very smooth scales and a reddish-brown coloration
- smotheriness — the condition or state of smothering