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12-letter words containing h, s, a, m

  • schmalkalden — a town in central Germany: a league to defend Protestantism formed here 1531.
  • schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
  • schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
  • schuman plan — the plan for establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, proposed by Robert Schuman, French political leader, in 1950.
  • sclerenchyma — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
  • scram switch — (jargon)   (From the nuclear power industry) An emergency power-off switch (see Big Red Switch), especially one positioned to be easily hit by evacuating personnel. In general, this is *not* something you frob lightly; these often initiate expensive events (such as Halon dumps) and are installed in a dinosaur pen for use in case of electrical fire or in case some luckless field servoid should put 120 volts across himself while Easter egging. SCRAM stands for Safety Control Rod Ax Man. In the early days of nuclear power, boron moderator rods were raised and lowered on ropes. In the event of a runaway chain reaction, a man with an axe would chop the rope and drop the rods into the nuclear pile to stop the reaction. See also molly-guard, TMRC.
  • scratch mark — the mark left by a scratch
  • scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
  • scrimshanker — a shirker
  • secd machine — Stack Environment Control Dump machine
  • seismography — the scientific measuring and recording of the shock and vibrations of earthquakes.
  • semiattached — partially attached; semidetached.
  • semidetached — partly detached.
  • shamateurism — a sports term referring to a state in which an athlete is classified as an amateur but acts like a professional, usually by raising money
  • shame on you — expressing disapproval
  • shamefacedly — modest or bashful.
  • 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.
  • shanks' mare — one's own legs, especially as a means of moving from one place to another: The only way we can get there is by shanks' mare.
  • share market — a highly organized market facilitating the purchase and sale of securities and operated by professional stockbrokers and market makers according to fixed rules
  • share-milker — (in New Zealand) a person who lives on a dairy farm milking the owner's herd for an agreed share of the profits and, usually, building his own herd simultaneously
  • shaving foam — lather used for shaving
  • sheep farmer — sb who raises sheep
  • shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
  • shoshone dam — a dam on the Shoshone River. 328 feet (100 meters) high.
  • shrimp plant — a small, sprawling shrub, Justicia brandegeana (or Beloperone guttata), of the acanthus family, native to Mexico, having small white flowers protruding from a series of overlapping reddish bracts and often cultivated as a houseplant.
  • shrimp sauce — a sauce made from shrimps
  • 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
  • simian shelf — a shelflike thickening along the inside of the mandible, characteristic of the anthropoid apes.
  • slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
  • sledgehammer — a large heavy hammer wielded with both hands.
  • 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.
  • slumbershade — sleep shade.
  • small change — coins of small denomination.
  • smallclothes — men's close-fitting knee breeches of the 18th and 19th centuries
  • smallholding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
  • smart growth — People such as architects and environmentalists use smart growth to refer to the construction of new buildings and roads within a town or city so that they are close to people's workplaces and mass transit systems and so that open spaces are not built on.
  • smith island — a group of islands in S Maryland and N Virginia, in Chesapeake Bay.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • smooth-faced — beardless; smooth-shaven.
  • somaesthesia — sensory perception of bodily feelings like touch, pain, position of the limbs, etc
  • sophomorical — characteristic of a sophomore
  • space helmet — a helmet worn by astronauts while in outer space
  • spanish main — (formerly) the mainland of America adjacent to the Caribbean Sea, especially the area between the mouth of the Orinoco River and the Isthmus of Panama.
  • 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.
  • spasmophilia — a condition in which only moderate mechanical or electrical stimulation produces spasms, convulsions, or tetany.
  • spasmophilic — of or noting spasmophilia.
  • speech maker — a person who makes a formal speech
  • spermaphytic — able to produce seeds
  • sphygmograph — an instrument for recording the rapidity, strength, and uniformity of the arterial pulse.
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