12-letter words containing g, h, e, t, o, s
- psephologist — A psephologist studies how people vote in elections.
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- sell-through — quantity of direct sales made
- 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.
- shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
- short-change — to give less than the correct change to.
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- shortsighted — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
- 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.
- slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- snaggletooth — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
- sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
- spectrograph — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
- sphygmometer — a device which measures the rate of the pulse
- sponge cloth — any cloth loosely woven of coarse yarn to produce a spongy look or texture, especially one constructed in honeycomb weave.
- steganograph — a piece of coded writing; cipher
- stegophilist — a person who enjoys climbing up the outside of buildings
- stenographer — a person who specializes in taking dictation in shorthand.
- stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
- stereography — the art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane.
- store-bought — commercially made rather than homemade.
- stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
- 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.
- strobe light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
- strobe-light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
- technologies — the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science.
- technologist — a person who specializes in technology.
- teleshopping — electronic shopping via videotex or other interactive information service.
- the hoppings — an annual fair in Newcastle
- theologaster — a person who pretends to be a theologian; a shallow or quack theologian
- thoroughness — executed without negligence or omissions: a thorough search.
- to the gills — the respiratory organ of aquatic animals, as fish, that breathe oxygen dissolved in water.
- togetherness — warm fellowship, as among members of a family.
- torch singer — a singer, especially a woman, who specializes in singing torch songs.
- west chicago — a town in NE Illinois.
- westinghouse — George, 1846–1914, U.S. inventor and manufacturer.
- wigglesworth — Michael, 1631–1705, U.S. theologian and author, born in England.
- wigtownshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.