12-letter words containing h, r, d, i, a
- sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
- scabbardfish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
- schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
- scratch disk — 1. (storage) See scratch. 2. (operating system) Unallocated space on Windows 95's primary hard disk partition, used for virtual memory. Shortage of space on this partition can result in the error "scratch disk full".
- scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
- scratchpad i — (language) A general-purpose language originally for interactive symbolic mathematics by Richard Jenks, Barry Trager, Stephen M. Watt and Robert S. Sutor of IBM Research, ca 1971. It features abstract parametrised data types, multiple inheritance and polymorphism. There were implementations for VM/CMS and AIX.
- scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
- shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
- 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-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
- sherardizing — to coat (steel) with a thin cladding of zinc by heating in a mixture of sand and powdered zinc.
- shirt-tailed — (of a garment) having a shirt-tail
- short radius — the perpendicular distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a side
- short-haired — having short hair
- siderography — the art or technique of engraving on steel.
- sixth-grader — a pupil in their sixth US school year after kindergarten, who is usually around 11 or 12 years old
- spearheading — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
- stadia-hairs — a method of surveying in which distances are read by noting the interval on a graduated rod intercepted by two parallel cross hairs (stadia hairs or stadia wires) mounted in the telescope of a surveying instrument, the rod being placed at one end of the distance to be measured and the surveying instrument at the other.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- straightbred — (of animals) purebred; having parents of the same breed
- straightedge — a bar or strip of wood, plastic, or metal having at least one long edge of sufficiently reliable straightness for use in drawing or testing straight lines, plane surfaces, etc.
- strike hands — to show agreement by clasping hands
- stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
- subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
- synarthrodia — synarthrosis.
- teacher bird — the ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus, a songbird that builds a nest shaped like a dome.
- tetrahedrite — a steel-gray or blackish mineral with a brilliant metallic luster, essentially copper and antimony sulfide, (Cu, Fe, Zn, Ag,) 12 Sb 4 S 13 , an end member of a series of solid solutions into which arsenic enters to form tennantite: mined as an ore of copper and silver.
- the nearside — the side of a vehicle normally nearer the kerb (in Britain, the left side)
- thermidorian — a member of the French moderate group who participated in the downfall of Robespierre and his followers on the 9th Thermidor (July 27th), 1794.
- thioridazine — a phenothiazine, C 21 H 26 N 2 S 2 , used as an antipsychotic chiefly in the treatment of acute psychoses and schizophrenia.
- third estate — the third of the three estates or political orders: the commons in France or England. Compare estate (def 5).
- third market — a market established by the London Stock Exchange in 1987 to trade in shares in companies required to provide less detailed information than that required by the main market or the unlisted securities market
- third stream — a style of music that uses features of both jazz and classical music in an attempt to develop a new and distinctive musical idiom.
- third-grader — a pupil in their third year of education, esp in the US and Canada
- thitherwards — in that direction
- three-gaited — noting a horse trained to walk, trot, and canter, as for pleasure riding and showing.
- transit shed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- typhoid mary — Mary ("Typhoid Mary") 1869?–1938, U.S. cook, born in Ireland: known immune carrier of typhoid fever who infected many with the disease, institutionalized in 1914.
- unaffrighted — to frighten.
- unauthorized — lacking permission; unsanctioned: unauthorized access.
- underachieve — to perform, especially academically, below the potential indicated by tests of one's mental ability or aptitude.
- undischarged — gun: not let off
- unfranchised — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- unharmonized — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- videographer — a person who makes films with a video camera.
- wash drawing — a watercolor painting executed by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other.
- water shield — Also called water target. an aquatic plant, Brasenia schreberi, of the water lily family, having purple flowers, floating, elliptic leaves, and a jellylike coating on the underwater stems and roots.
- weather tide — a tide moving against the direction of the wind.