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12-letter words containing h, e, a, s, t

  • set the pace — a rate of movement, especially in stepping, walking, etc.: to walk at a brisk pace of five miles an hour.
  • shamateurism — a sports term referring to a state in which an athlete is classified as an amateur but acts like a professional, usually by raising money
  • share market — a highly organized market facilitating the purchase and sale of securities and operated by professional stockbrokers and market makers according to fixed rules
  • share option — A share option is an opportunity for the employees of a company to buy shares at a special price.
  • shareability — the state or property of being able to be shared
  • 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.
  • sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
  • sharpshooter — a person skilled in shooting, especially with a rifle.
  • shatter cone — a cone-shaped fragment of rock, probably formed by violent shock waves, as from meteoritic impact or atomic explosions
  • shatterproof — designed or made to resist shattering: shatterproof glass in automobile windows.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • shear stress — the external force acting on an object or surface parallel to the slope or plane in which it lies; the stress tending to produce shear.
  • sheath knife — a knife carried in a sheath.
  • sheet anchor — Nautical. a large anchor used only in cases of emergency.
  • shelf talker — a cardboard, paper, or plastic advertisement of a product designed to be attached to a shelf on which the product is exhibited for sale.
  • shell jacket — a close-fitting, semiformal jacket, with a short back, worn in the tropics in place of a tuxedo.
  • shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
  • shirt jacket — a shirtlike jacket.
  • shirt-tailed — (of a garment) having a shirt-tail
  • shirtwaister — a tailored blouse or shirt worn by women.
  • shoe leather — treated animal skin used for shoes
  • shoot a line — to try to create a false image, as by boasting or exaggerating
  • shop steward — commerce: union rep
  • shore patrol — (often initial capital letters) members of an organization in the U.S. Navy having police duties similar to those performed by military police. Abbreviation: SP.
  • short-change — to give less than the correct change to.
  • short-haired — having short hair
  • short-handed — not having the usual or necessary number of workers, helpers, etc.
  • shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
  • show the way — guide
  • shower stall — an individual compartment or self-contained unit, having a single shower and accommodating one person.
  • shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
  • sivapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene primates of Asia that resemble the modern orangutan.
  • sixth-grader — a pupil in their sixth US school year after kindergarten, who is usually around 11 or 12 years old
  • skeeter hawk — mosquito hawk.
  • skirt chaser — a womanizer.
  • skirt-chaser — a womanizer.
  • slant height — (of a right circular cone) the distance from the vertex to any point on the circumference of the base.
  • slash pocket — a pocket set into a garment, especially below the waistline, to which easy access is provided by an exterior, vertical or diagonal slit.
  • slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
  • slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
  • 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.
  • smallclothes — men's close-fitting knee breeches of the 18th and 19th centuries
  • smooth snake — any of several slender nonvenomous colubrid snakes of the European genus Coronella, esp C. austriaca, having very smooth scales and a reddish-brown coloration
  • smooth-faced — beardless; smooth-shaven.
  • snaggletooth — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
  • snowshoe cat — a breed of cat with soft short hair, blue eyes, an inverted V-shaped marking on the face, and white feet
  • soft chancre — chancroid.
  • soft-hearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
  • softheadedly — in a soft-headed manner
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