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12-letter words containing h, a, n, p

  • 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.
  • shavano peak — a mountain in central Colorado, in the S Sawatch Range, in the Rocky Mountains. 14,229 feet (4337 meters).
  • shaving soap — a special soap for lathering the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving, capable of producing a thick lather due to its high fat content and low alkalinity.
  • shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
  • shopping bag — a strong, usually paper or plastic, bag with handles, used to carry purchases or belongings.
  • 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.
  • sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
  • sindonophany — the periodic exhibiting to the public of the shroud that the body of Christ is thought to have been wrapped in
  • single-phase — noting or pertaining to a circuit having an alternating current with one phase or with phases differing by 180°.
  • slap dashing — slab dashing.
  • snake-hipped — having thin, sinuous hips.
  • snappishness — the quality of being sharp or irritable
  • snapshotting — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
  • snobographer — a person who writes about snobs
  • spanish foot — a carved pyramidal foot having fluted, concave sides usually ending in a scroll at the bottom.
  • spanish heel — a high, curved heel with a straight heel breast, used on women's shoes.
  • spanish iris — an iris, Iris xyphium, of the Mediterranean region, having blue, white, or yellow flowers with a yellow or orange patch.
  • spanish main — (formerly) the mainland of America adjacent to the Caribbean Sea, especially the area between the mouth of the Orinoco River and the Isthmus of Panama.
  • spanish moss — an epiphytic plant, Tillandsia usneoides, of the southern U.S., having narrow, grayish leaves and growing in long festoons that drape the branches of trees.
  • spanish rice — rice prepared with chopped onions, tomatoes, green peppers, and sometimes diced ham, seasoned with cayenne pepper and mixed with butter.
  • spar varnish — a durable, weather-resistant varnish applied to unpainted wooden areas, especially on ships.
  • speakerphone — a telephone or telephone attachment equipped with both loudspeaker and microphone, thus permitting the instrument to be used without being held.
  • spearfishing — any of several fishes of the genus Tetrapturus, resembling the sailfish but having the first dorsal fin much less developed: inhabiting all seas, but rare.
  • spearheading — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
  • 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.
  • sphacelation — the process of mortification
  • sphenography — the art of writing in cuneiform characters.
  • sphincterial — relating to a sphincter
  • spin machine — an organization or group of people acting together to present news or information in a way that creates a particular desired impression
  • spinach beet — chard, a plant cultivated for its edible leaves
  • sprechgesang — a vocal style intermediate between speech and singing but without exact pitch intonation.
  • spring catch — a catch for an interior or cabinet door that has a bolt operated by a spring.
  • spud-bashing — the task of peeling potatoes, given as a punishment
  • steganograph — a piece of coded writing; cipher
  • 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).
  • straight pin — pin (sense 2)
  • strophanthin — a very poisonous, bitter glycoside or mixture of glycosides obtained from the dried, ripe seeds of a strophanthus, especially Strophanthus kombe, used as a cardiac stimulant.
  • strophanthus — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Strophanthus, of the dogbane family, chiefly of tropical Africa.
  • sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
  • sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
  • sulphonation — the action or process of converting or being converted into a sulphonate
  • sunday punch — Boxing. the most powerful and effective punch of a boxer, especially the punch used in trying to gain a knockout.
  • superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
  • supply chain — process of manufacture and sale
  • sycophantish — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • sycophantism — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • sycophantize — to act the sycophant
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