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12-letter words containing h, a, r, d, s

  • pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
  • parasphenoid — a bone next to the sphenoid bone in the skull of some animals
  • phased array — a radar antenna consisting of an array of dipoles that are excited in or out of phase with each other to control beam direction and radiation pattern without moving the antenna. Compare dipole (def 3).
  • photo spread — a picture spread. See under spread (def 33).
  • predischarge — of or pertaining to the period prior to discharge, esp prior to discharge from hospital or from employment
  • pseudamphora — a Mycenaean vase having a spherical body, a spout on the shoulder, and a handle, curving across the top, supported by a solid conical neck.
  • pseudography — writing that does not follow conventional spelling or usage
  • push forward — keep advancing
  • radiesthesia — the ability to sense energy forces or radiation, esp from the human body
  • radiesthetic — of or relating to radiesthesia
  • radiophonist — a person who produces radiophonic music
  • raised beach — a wave-cut platform raised above the shoreline by a relative fall in the water level
  • red bandfish — a fish, Cepola haastii, found on the inner continental shelf around New Zealand: family Cepolidae
  • red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
  • reemphasized — to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
  • rhabdosphere — a minute sphere made up of rhabdoliths
  • rhadamanthus — Classical Mythology. a son of Zeus and Europa, rewarded for the justice he exemplified on earth by being made, after his death, a judge in the Underworld, where he served with his brothers Minos and Aeacus.
  • rhadamanthys — Classical Mythology. a son of Zeus and Europa, rewarded for the justice he exemplified on earth by being made, after his death, a judge in the Underworld, where he served with his brothers Minos and Aeacus.
  • rhode island — US state
  • rhodes grass — a grass, Chloris gayana, native to Africa, used as pasturage and fodder in warm climates.
  • rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
  • saccharoidal — having a crystalline or granular texture: said esp. of some sandstones and marbles
  • sacred heart — the physical heart of Jesus, to which special devotion is offered as a symbol of His love and redemptive sacrifice.
  • saddle horse — a horse bred, trained, or used for riding.
  • salad shaker — a portable plastic container which is used for storing salad and which has a separate compartment for salad dressing. The dressing is put on the salad just before it is eaten and the container can then be shaken to spread the salad dressing evenly.
  • sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
  • say the word — If someone says the word, they give their approval as a sign that something should start to happen.
  • scabbardfish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
  • scheherazade — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments) the wife of the sultan of India, who relates such interesting tales nightly that the sultan spares her life.
  • schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
  • school board — a local board or committee in charge of public education.
  • scratch card — a card or ticket having one or more sections coated with an opaque substance that can be scratched off to reveal a possible prize.
  • scratch disk — 1.   (storage)   See scratch. 2.   (operating system)   Unallocated space on Windows 95's primary hard disk partition, used for virtual memory. Shortage of space on this partition can result in the error "scratch disk full".
  • scratchboard — a cardboard coated with impermeable white clay and covered by a layer of ink that is scratched or scraped in patterns revealing the white surface below.
  • scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
  • scratchpad i — (language)   A general-purpose language originally for interactive symbolic mathematics by Richard Jenks, Barry Trager, Stephen M. Watt and Robert S. Sutor of IBM Research, ca 1971. It features abstract parametrised data types, multiple inheritance and polymorphism. There were implementations for VM/CMS and AIX.
  • screw thread — Also called worm. the helical ridge of a screw.
  • scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
  • search order — an injunction allowing a person to enter the premises of another to search for and take copies of evidence required for a court case, used esp in cases of infringement of copyright
  • shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
  • shadowgraphy — the production of a shadowgraph
  • shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
  • shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
  • sherardizing — to coat (steel) with a thin cladding of zinc by heating in a mixture of sand and powdered zinc.
  • shevardnadze — Eduard A [ed-werd;; Russian ed-wahrt] /ˈɛd wərd;; Russian ɛdˈwɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1928–2014, Soviet foreign minister 1985–91; president of his native Georgian Republic 1995–2003.
  • shirt-tailed — (of a garment) having a shirt-tail
  • shop steward — commerce: union rep
  • short radius — the perpendicular distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a side
  • short-haired — having short hair
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