12-letter words containing g, o, n, r, h
- shingle roof — a roof covered with thin rectangular tiles, esp made of wood, that are laid with others in overlapping rows
- shooting war — open conflict between hostile nations involving direct military engagements.
- shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
- short-acting — (of a drug) quickly effective, but requiring regularly repeated doses for long-term treatment, being rapidly absorbed, distributed in the body, and excreted
- short-change — to give less than the correct change to.
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- shortcomings — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- snobographer — a person who writes about snobs
- south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
- speech organ — any part of the body, as the tongue, velum, diaphragm, or lungs, that participates, actively or passively, voluntarily or involuntarily, in the production of the sounds of speech.
- sphenography — the art of writing in cuneiform characters.
- sportfishing — fishing with a rod and reel for sport, especially for saltwater sport fish from a motorboat.
- steganograph — a piece of coded writing; cipher
- stenographer — a person who specializes in taking dictation in shorthand.
- stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
- 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.
- technography — the description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
- telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
- theatregoing — the act of regularly attending the theatre
- thoroughness — executed without negligence or omissions: a thorough search.
- through-line — a theme or idea that runs from the beginning to the end of a book, film, etc
- through-sung — sung throughout, with no spoken dialogue
- togetherness — warm fellowship, as among members of a family.
- torch singer — a singer, especially a woman, who specializes in singing torch songs.
- touch ground — (of a ship) to strike the sea bed
- trapshooting — the sport of shooting at clay pigeons hurled into the air from a trap.
- underwrought — to do less work on than is necessary or required: to underwork an idea.
- unnourishing — not providing nourishment
- waking hours — Your waking hours are the times when you are awake rather than asleep.
- warning shot — gunshot fired into the air
- weigh anchor — to raise a vessel's anchor or (of a vessel) to have its anchor raised in preparation for departure
- whaling port — a home port for whaling vessels.
- white-ground — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece from the 6th to the 4th centuries b.c., characterized chiefly by a white background of slip onto which were painted polychromatic figures.
- whore-monger — someone who consorts with whores; a lecher or pander.
- whoremongers — Plural form of whoremonger.
- wigtownshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
- winged horse — the constellation Pegasus.
- wolf herring — a voracious clupeoid fish, Chirocentrus dorab, inhabiting the tropical Indian and Pacific oceans.
- wordsmithing — Present participle of wordsmith.
- work-sharing — an arrangement whereby one full-time job may be carried out by two people working part time
- wrong-headed — wrong in judgment or opinion; misguided and stubborn; perverse.
- wrought iron — a form of iron, almost entirely free of carbon and having a fibrous structure including a uniformly distributed slag content, that is readily forged and welded.
- younger hand — (in piquet and similar card games) the dealer