12-letter words containing h, u, r, l, e, s
- secure shell — (operating system) (ssh) A Unix shell program for logging into, and executing commands on, a remote computer. ssh is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- sell-through — quantity of direct sales made
- sheep laurel — a small E North American plant (Kalmia angustifolia) of the heath family, with pinkish flowers and evergreen leaves poisonous to sheep and other animals
- 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.
- 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.
- shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
- slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
- slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
- slumbershade — sleep shade.
- soul brother — a black male, especially a fellow black male.
- sprachgefuhl — a sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
- squirrelfish — any of several brightly colored, nocturnal fishes of the family Holocentridae, inhabiting shallow waters of tropical reefs, especially the reddish Holocentrus ascensionis of the West Indies, armed with sharp spines and scales.
- subthreshold — (of a stimulus) too weak to produce a response.
- super-sleuth — a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.
- superathlete — a highly accomplished athlete, an exceptional athlete
- superhelical — of, relating to, or consisting of a superhelix
- superhumeral — an ecclesiastical vestment worn over the shoulders
- sure as hell — definitely, certainly
- swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
- the silurian — the Silurian period or rock system
- the struggle — the radical and armed opposition to apartheid, esp by the military wings of the ANC and the PAC
- the troubles — political unrest or public disturbances
- thunderflash — a pyrotechnic device which is noisy, but not dangerous, and which is used in military exercises
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- tricephalous — with three heads
- troubleshoot — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
- truthfulness — telling the truth, especially habitually: a truthful person.
- underclothes — clothes worn under outer clothes.
- unhydrolysed — not having undergone hydrolysis
- unhysterical — not showing or suggesting any hysteria; controlled; sensible; calm;
- unmarshalled — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- unperishable — imperishable
- unsearchable — not searchable; not lending itself to research or exploration; not to be understood by searching; hidden; unfathomable; mysterious: the unsearchable ways of the universe.
- unsearchably — in an unsearchable manner
- unsepulchred — not sepulchred
- unshrinkable — not able to contract or become smaller in size
- upper school — a scholastic division, especially in a private school, including the terminal secondary grades.
- wrathfulness — The quality of being wrathful; wrath.