12-letter words containing h, i, s, t, o, r
- postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
- poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
- praiseworthy — deserving of praise; laudable: a praiseworthy motive.
- prehistorian — an authority on or specialist in prehistory
- prepsychotic — exhibiting behavior that indicates the approach of a psychotic reaction.
- prior to sth — If something happens prior to a particular time or event, it happens before that time or event.
- propheticism — the actions or characteristics of a prophet
- protohistory — a branch of study concerned with the transition period between prehistory and the earliest recorded history.
- psychometric — Psychology. psychometrics.
- psychotronic — of or relating to a genre of usually low-budget movies that includes horror, fantasy, science-fiction, and underground films.
- psychotropic — affecting mental activity, behavior, or perception, as a mood-altering drug.
- pyonephritis — suppurative inflammation of the kidney.
- pyrotechnics — the art of making fireworks.
- pyrotechnist — a person skilled in pyrotechnics, especially in the manufacture or use of fireworks.
- rachiotomies — Plural form of rachiotomy.
- radiophonist — a person who produces radiophonic music
- reality show — A reality show is a type of television program that aims to show how ordinary people behave in everyday life, or in situations, often created by the program makers, which are intended to represent everyday life.
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- rostropovich — Mstislav (Leopoldovich) [mis-tuh-slahv lee-uh-pohl-duh-vich;; Russian mstyi-slahf lyi-uh-pawl-duh-vyich] /ˈmɪs təˌslɑv ˌli əˈpoʊl də vɪtʃ;; Russian mstyɪˈslɑf lyɪ əˈpɔl də vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1927–2007, Soviet cellist and conductor (husband of Galina Vishnevskaya).
- ryobu shinto — a fusion of Shinto and Buddhism, which flourished in Japan in the 13th century
- sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
- saprophytism — living and feeding on dead organic matter
- scotch grain — a coarse, pebble-grained finish given to heavy leather, esp. for men's shoes
- scotch-irish — (used with a plural verb) the descendants of the Lowland Scots who were settled in Ulster in the 17th century.
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- servitorship — the office or position of a servitor; the condition of being a servitor
- share option — A share option is an opportunity for the employees of a company to buy shares at a special price.
- shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
- ship's store — a retail store aboard a navy ship that sells toiletries, cigarettes, etc., to the ship's personnel.
- shooting war — open conflict between hostile nations involving direct military engagements.
- short notice — little warning
- short radius — the perpendicular distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a side
- short shrift — a brief time for confession or absolution given to a condemned prisoner before his or her execution.
- 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-acting — (of a drug) quickly effective, but requiring regularly repeated doses for long-term treatment, being rapidly absorbed, distributed in the body, and excreted
- short-haired — having short hair
- short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
- shortcomings — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- shortsighted — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
- simhat torah — a Jewish festival, celebrated on the 23d day of Tishri, that marks the end of the annual cycle of Torah readings and the beginning of the next cycle
- sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
- sixth former — student: 16-18
- sixty-fourth — next after the sixty-third; being the ordinal number for 64.
- slip through — be undetected
- smotheriness — the condition or state of smothering
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- soccer pitch — the field of play used in soccer