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

  • sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
  • saprophagous — (of an organism) feeding on dead or decaying animal matter.
  • sarcophagous — carnivorous.
  • sarrusophone — a metal double-reed wind instrument with a conical bore, related to the oboe and used especially in military bands.
  • scatophagous — feeding on dung or excrement
  • schizogenous — schizogenetic.
  • schizogonous — pertaining to or reproducing by schizogony.
  • schizopodous — of or relating to a schizopod
  • school hours — the period of the day when school is open
  • school lunch — School lunches are midday meals provided for children at a school.
  • schopenhauer — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
  • schussboomer — a skier who is skilled at schussing.
  • scrophularia — a member of a genus of flowering plants which have a square stem and are known as figworts
  • self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • sell-through — quantity of direct sales made
  • shame on you — expressing disapproval
  • 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.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • shoot-'em-up — a motion-picture or television program that emphasizes gunplay, action, and often violence.
  • short column — a column whose relative dimensions ensure that when it is overloaded it fails by crushing, rather than buckling
  • short radius — the perpendicular distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a side
  • shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
  • 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.
  • show jumping — sport: horseriding event
  • show-through — the visibility through paper of what is printed on the other side.
  • 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.
  • shut up shop — When a shop, office, or firm shuts up shop, it stops doing business and closes, either at the end of the day or permanently.
  • shut-out bid — a pre-emptive bid
  • 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.
  • silhouettist — a creator of silhouette portraits
  • sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
  • 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.
  • sixty-fourth — next after the sixty-third; being the ordinal number for 64.
  • 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.
  • slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
  • slip through — be undetected
  • slothfulness — sluggardly; indolent; lazy.
  • smooth hound — a smooth dogfish, especially Mustelus mustelus, inhabiting waters along the coast of Europe.
  • smooth sumac — a shrub or small tree, Rhus glabra, of the cashew family, native to North America, having pinnate leaves and green flowers in a dense terminal cluster.
  • sodium light — the light produced by a sodium lamp
  • sorghum beer — beer made from sorghum or millet
  • soufflé dish — A dish for making souffles
  • sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • soul brother — a black male, especially a fellow black male.
  • 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.
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