12-letter words containing h, e, i, r, s
- ship's store — a retail store aboard a navy ship that sells toiletries, cigarettes, etc., to the ship's personnel.
- shirt jacket — a shirtlike jacket.
- shirt-lifter — a homosexual
- shirt-sleeve — not wearing a jacket; informally dressed: a shirt-sleeve mob.
- shirt-tailed — (of a garment) having a shirt-tail
- shirtsleeved — not wearing a jacket or coat
- shirtwaister — a tailored blouse or shirt worn by women.
- shoe repairs — repairs to shoes
- shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
- shore dinner — a meal consisting chiefly of seafood.
- short notice — little warning
- short splice — a splice used when an increased thickness of the united rope is not objectionable, made by unlaying the rope ends a certain distance, uniting them so that their strands overlap, then tucking each alternately over and under others several times.
- short-haired — having short hair
- short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
- shortsighted — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
- shrimp sauce — a sauce made from shrimps
- side-wheeler — having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
- siderochrome — any of various chemical compounds functioning in the transport of iron in bacteria.
- siderography — the art or technique of engraving on steel.
- siderophilic — having characteristics of siderophile
- sight screen — a white screen set in line with the wicket as an aid to the batsman in seeing the ball when it is bowled.
- silver birch — tree with silvery-white bark
- silver perch — Also called mademoiselle. Ichthyology. a drum, Bairdiella chrysoura, of southern U.S. waters.
- single rhyme — a rhyme of monosyllables, as in heart, part.
- siphonophore — any pelagic hydrozoan of the order Siphonophora, being a floating or swimming colony composed of polyps.
- sixth former — student: 16-18
- sixth-grader — a pupil in their sixth US school year after kindergarten, who is usually around 11 or 12 years old
- skeuomorphic — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
- skirt chaser — a womanizer.
- skirt length — the length of someone's skirt
- skirt-chaser — a womanizer.
- slipper bath — a bath in the shape of a slipper, with a covered end
- smotheriness — the condition or state of smothering
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- soccer pitch — the field of play used in soccer
- spanish rice — rice prepared with chopped onions, tomatoes, green peppers, and sometimes diced ham, seasoned with cayenne pepper and mixed with butter.
- 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.
- speechwriter — a person who writes speeches for others, usually for pay.
- spermaphytic — able to produce seeds
- spermophytic — able to produce seed
- sphericality — the state of being a sphere
- sphincterial — relating to a sphincter
- spiderhunter — any of several sunbirds of the genus Arachnothera, of southern Asia and the East Indies, having dull-colored plumage and a long bill.
- spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- spinstership — the state of being a spinster
- spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
- sprechstimme — sprechgesang.
- spring vetch — any of several mostly climbing plants belonging to the genus Vicia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves ending in tendrils and bearing pealike flowers, especially V. sativa (spring vetch) cultivated for forage and soil improvement.
- squarishness — the condition or quality of being somewhat square