12-letter words containing h, a, i, l, s, t
- oral history — information of historical or sociological importance obtained usually by tape-recorded interviews with persons whose experiences and memories are representative or whose lives have been of special significance.
- orthoclastic — (of a crystal) having cleavages at right angles to each other.
- outlandishly — In an outlandish manner.
- parochialist — a parochial character, spirit, or tendency; excessive narrowness of interests or view; provincialism.
- penthesileia — the daughter of Ares and queen of the Amazons, whom she led to the aid of Troy. She was slain by Achilles
- phantasmical — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- phosphatidyl — an atom or group of atoms containing one or more unpaired electrons derived from a phosphatide
- photoelastic — displaying photoelasticity; of or relating to photoelasticity
- photorealism — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
- phylacteries — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
- plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- pleased with — satisfied or content with
- polar lights — the aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere or the aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere.
- polish wheat — a wheat, Triticum polonicum, grown chiefly in S Europe, N Africa, and Turkestan.
- polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
- posthospital — following treatment in a hospital
- preestablish — to establish beforehand.
- re-establish — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
- reality show — A reality show is a type of television program that aims to show how ordinary people behave in everyday life, or in situations, often created by the program makers, which are intended to represent everyday life.
- reichsthaler — a silver thaler of Germany, originally issued in 1566; rix-dollar.
- relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
- rheumatismal — of or relating to rheumatism
- rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
- sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
- 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 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-mihiel — a town in NE France, on the Meuse River, NW of Nancy: captured by American forces 1918.
- sandy blight — trachoma.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- schistosomal — relating to or characteristic of a schistosome or member of the genus Schistosoma
- scoptophilia — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
- 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.
- scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
- scratchbuilt — describing something which has been constructed by scratchbuilding
- scratchingly — in a scratching manner, with a scratching action
- see daylight — the light of day: At the end of the tunnel they could see daylight.
- self-heating — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- shareability — the state or property of being able to be shared
- shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
- shirt-tailed — (of a garment) having a shirt-tail
- shoot a line — to try to create a false image, as by boasting or exaggerating
- shrimp plant — a small, sprawling shrub, Justicia brandegeana (or Beloperone guttata), of the acanthus family, native to Mexico, having small white flowers protruding from a series of overlapping reddish bracts and often cultivated as a houseplant.
- slant height — (of a right circular cone) the distance from the vertex to any point on the circumference of the base.
- slipper bath — a bath in the shape of a slipper, with a covered end
- 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.
- smith island — a group of islands in S Maryland and N Virginia, in Chesapeake Bay.