12-letter words containing h, e, r, a, l
- shirt-tailed — (of a garment) having a shirt-tail
- shoe leather — treated animal skin used for shoes
- 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.
- shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
- shoulder pad — clothing: insert in shoulder
- shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
- shovel-ready — of or relating to a construction project that is ready to start immediately
- shower stall — an individual compartment or self-contained unit, having a single shower and accommodating one person.
- shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
- shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
- slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
- slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
- sledgehammer — a large heavy hammer wielded with both hands.
- slipper bath — a bath in the shape of a slipper, with a covered end
- slumbershade — sleep shade.
- sphericality — the state of being a sphere
- sphincterial — relating to a sphincter
- spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
- sprachgefuhl — a sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
- stakeholders — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
- star thistle — any of several naturalized Eurasian plants of the genus Centaurea, especially C. calcitrapa, having purplish, spiny flower heads.
- 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.
- storm-lashed — badly affected by storms
- stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
- stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
- strophiolate — having a strophiole
- superathlete — a highly accomplished athlete, an exceptional athlete
- superhelical — of, relating to, or consisting of a superhelix
- superhumeral — an ecclesiastical vestment worn over the shoulders
- sure as hell — definitely, certainly
- swash letter — an ornamental italic capital letter having a flourish extending beyond the body of the type.
- swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
- swivel chair — a chair whose seat turns around horizontally on a swivel.
- tablet chair — a chair with one arm extending and expanding into a writing surface.
- tactile hair — any highly sensitive hair of an animal, as the whiskers of a cat or hairs on a hedgehog's snout.
- tail feather — one of the feathers making up a bird's tail
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- telautograph — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting, drawings, etc, the movements of an electromagnetically controlled pen at one end being transmitted along a line to a similar pen at the receiving end
- telegraphese — a style of writing or speaking distinguished by the omissions, abbreviations, and combinations that are characteristic of telegrams, as in “ expect arrive six evening. ”.
- telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
- telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
- terephthalic — relating to, designating, or derived from terephthalic acid or its derivatives
- the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
- the far left — the more extreme supporters or advocates of social, political, or economic change, reform, or revolution designed to promote the greater freedom, power, welfare, or comfort of the common people
- the kalahari — an extensive arid plateau of South Africa, Namibia, and Botswana. Area: 260 000 sq km (100 000 sq miles)
- the military — the armed services (esp the army)
- the old dart — England
- the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
- the red flag — a socialist song, written by James Connell (1852–1929), Irish political activist, in 1889