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12-letter words containing h, o, r, e

  • rough collie — a breed of long-haired collie with a coarse black-and-white or black, tan, and white coat, thicker around its neck and shoulders.
  • rough-spoken — coarse or vulgar in speech.
  • rough-voiced — having a harsh or grating voice: a rough-voiced barker.
  • router patch — a plywood panel patch with parallel sides and rounded ends.
  • run the show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
  • run to earth — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
  • running shoe — trainer, sneaker
  • sacher torte — a chocolate cake covered with apricot jam and chocolate icing, usually served with whipped cream.
  • saddle horse — a horse bred, trained, or used for riding.
  • safe harbour — a place that offers protection from the weather, attack, etc
  • sarrusophone — a metal double-reed wind instrument with a conical bore, related to the oboe and used especially in military bands.
  • say the word — If someone says the word, they give their approval as a sign that something should start to happen.
  • scatter shot — shot prepared for a weapon having a rifled bore or barrel.
  • scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
  • schizophrene — a person with schizophrenia or one who tends toward schizophrenia
  • schoenheimer — Rudolf [roo-dolf;; German roo-dawlf] /ˈru dɒlf;; German ˈru dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1898–1941, U.S. biochemist, born in Germany.
  • schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
  • schooner rig — a rig in which the mainmast is taller than the foremast
  • schopenhauer — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
  • schussboomer — a skier who is skilled at schussing.
  • sclerophylly — the normal development of much sclerenchyma in the leaves of certain plants, as some desert plants, resulting in thickened, hardened foliage that resists loss of moisture.
  • search order — an injunction allowing a person to enter the premises of another to search for and take copies of evidence required for a court case, used esp in cases of infringement of copyright
  • second birth — spiritual rebirth.
  • second reich — the German Empire 1871–1919.
  • second-homer — a person who owns another house in addition to their main home, often in an area where they are not native and used as a holiday home
  • seismography — the scientific measuring and recording of the shock and vibrations of earthquakes.
  • selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • self-honored — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
  • self-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
  • self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • sell-through — quantity of direct sales made
  • sepher torah — a scroll of the Torah, typically of parchment, from which the designated Parashah is chanted or read on the prescribed days.
  • servitorship — the office or position of a servitor; the condition of being a servitor
  • shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
  • shamrock-pea — a trailing plant, Parochetus communis, of the legume family, native to Asia and east Africa, having shamrocklike leaves with a brown crescent at the base and pea-shaped, pink and blue flowers.
  • share option — A share option is an opportunity for the employees of a company to buy shares at a special price.
  • sharecropper — a tenant farmer who pays as rent a share of the crop.
  • shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
  • shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • sheep sorrel — a slender weed, Rumex acetosella, of the buckwheat family, found in poor, dry soils, having arrow-shaped leaves with an acid taste.
  • sheet anchor — Nautical. a large anchor used only in cases of emergency.
  • shepherd boy — male child who herds sheep
  • shepherd dog — sheepdog.
  • shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
  • shingle roof — a roof covered with thin rectangular tiles, esp made of wood, that are laid with others in overlapping rows
  • ship's store — a retail store aboard a navy ship that sells toiletries, cigarettes, etc., to the ship's personnel.
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