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12-letter words containing h, a, l, s, t, n

  • scratch line — a line that marks the start of a race.
  • scratchingly — in a scratching manner, with a scratching action
  • sea elephant — elephant seal.
  • self-heating — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • shoot a line — to try to create a false image, as by boasting or exaggerating
  • shot on goal — a shot that enters the goal or would have entered the goal if it had not been blocked by the goalkeeper or another defensive player.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • smith island — a group of islands in S Maryland and N Virginia, in Chesapeake Bay.
  • snaggletooth — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
  • snatch block — a fairlead having the form of a block that can be opened to receive the bight of a rope at any point along its length.
  • south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
  • sphacelation — the process of mortification
  • sphincterial — relating to a sphincter
  • stealthiness — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
  • stenothermal — (of animals or plants) able to exist only within a narrow range of temperature
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
  • stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
  • sulphonation — the action or process of converting or being converted into a sulphonate
  • synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
  • talking shop — If you say that a conference or a committee is just a talking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.
  • telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • tenths-place — next after ninth; being the ordinal number for ten.
  • thankfulness — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
  • thanks a lot — thank you
  • the analects — a collection of Confucius' teachings
  • the antilles — a group of islands in the Caribbean
  • the lothians — three historic counties of SE central Scotland (now council areas): East Lothian, West Lothian, and Midlothian (including Edinburgh)
  • the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
  • the midlands — the central counties of England, including Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, the former West Midlands metropolitan county, and Worcestershire: characterized by manufacturing industries
  • the saltsjön — an inlet of the Baltic Sea in Sweden
  • the silurian — the Silurian period or rock system
  • thessalonian — of or relating to Thessalonike or its inhabitants.
  • thessalonica — official name of Salonika.
  • thessalonike — official name of Salonika.
  • thessaloníki — official name of Salonika.
  • thousandfold — having a thousand elements or parts.
  • thunderflash — a pyrotechnic device which is noisy, but not dangerous, and which is used in military exercises
  • thymus gland — a ductless, butterfly-shaped gland lying at the base of the neck, formed mostly of lymphatic tissue and aiding in the production of T cells of the immune system: after puberty, the lymphatic tissue gradually degenerates.
  • transleithan — beyond the river Leitha, which once formed part of the boundary between Austria and Hungary
  • unhesitantly — hesitating; undecided, doubtful, or disinclined.
  • unhistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • unhospitable — not hospitable
  • unhysterical — not showing or suggesting any hysteria; controlled; sensible; calm;
  • unstanchable — unstoppable
  • velvet shank — a bright yellow edible basidiomycetous fungus, Flammulina velutipes, common on trunks, stumps, or branches of broad-leaved trees in winter
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