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12-letter words containing h, o, n, s

  • short-spoken — speaking in a short, brief, or curt manner.
  • short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
  • shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
  • 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.
  • shoshone dam — a dam on the Shoshone River. 328 feet (100 meters) high.
  • shot on goal — a shot that enters the goal or would have entered the goal if it had not been blocked by the goalkeeper or another defensive player.
  • shovel-nosed — having the head, snout, or beak broad and flat like the blade of a shovel.
  • show jumping — sport: horseriding event
  • showstopping — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
  • silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
  • silicon chip — A silicon chip is a very small piece of silicon inside a computer. It has electronic circuits on it and can hold large quantities of information or perform mathematical or logical operations.
  • sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
  • sindonophany — the periodic exhibiting to the public of the shroud that the body of Christ is thought to have been wrapped in
  • siphonophore — any pelagic hydrozoan of the order Siphonophora, being a floating or swimming colony composed of polyps.
  • siphonostele — a hollow tube of vascular tissue enclosing a pith and embedded in ground tissue.
  • sixth column — the persons residing in a country at war who are devoted to aiding the fifth column in its activities, especially by lowering morale, spreading rumors, etc.
  • slobbishness — the state or characteristic of being a slob
  • 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.
  • slothfulness — sluggardly; indolent; lazy.
  • smallholding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
  • smooth hound — a smooth dogfish, especially Mustelus mustelus, inhabiting waters along the coast of Europe.
  • 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
  • smotheriness — the condition or state of smothering
  • smotheringly — in a smothering manner
  • snaggletooth — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
  • snapshotting — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
  • snatch block — a fairlead having the form of a block that can be opened to receive the bight of a rope at any point along its length.
  • snobographer — a person who writes about snobs
  • snow thrower — snow blower.
  • 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.
  • solzhenitsyn — Alexander or Aleksandr (Isayevich) [al-ig-zan-der ee-sahy-uh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr ee-sah-yi-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər iˈsaɪ ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr iˈsɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1918–2008, Russian novelist: Nobel prize 1970; in the U.S. 1974–94.
  • sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
  • sounion head — the tip of the Attica peninsula, E central Greece: site of ancient temple ruins.
  • soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
  • south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
  • south korean — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 36,600 sq. mi. (94,795 sq. km). Capital: Seoul. Compare Korea.
  • south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • south-facing — facing towards the south
  • southeastern — from the south east
  • southernmost — farthest south.
  • southernness — the state of being southern
  • southernwood — a woody-stemmed wormwood, Artemisia abrotanum, of southern Europe, having aromatic, finely dissected leaves.
  • southwestern — the point or direction midway between south and west. Abbreviation: SW.
  • spanish foot — a carved pyramidal foot having fluted, concave sides usually ending in a scroll at the bottom.
  • spanish moss — an epiphytic plant, Tillandsia usneoides, of the southern U.S., having narrow, grayish leaves and growing in long festoons that drape the branches of trees.
  • speakerphone — a telephone or telephone attachment equipped with both loudspeaker and microphone, thus permitting the instrument to be used without being held.
  • speech organ — any part of the body, as the tongue, velum, diaphragm, or lungs, that participates, actively or passively, voluntarily or involuntarily, in the production of the sounds of speech.
  • speech sound — any of the set of distinctive sounds of a given language. Compare phoneme.
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